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  • A person sits on a stool at a desk and is typing on a keyboard and facing a monitor. To the right of the person is a bar chart with an arrow points up as it increases. There are two images of birds: male and female Red-winged Blackbird.
    October 21, 2021The Bird Cams Lab Experience: What We Learned From External Evaluation

    During 2018–21, people from around the world teamed up with one another and scientists to learn more about birds on the Cornell Lab’s Bird Cams. Figure 1. The locations of Bird Cams Lab participants for the last four investigations: Cornell…

  • A screenshot of the Cornell FeederWatch cam page with the live stream view, buttons with birds to the right of it, names of the birds and the time they visited in the
    August 24, 2021Engaging the Public in Collecting Data from Live and Recorded Wildlife Cams: Tips for Project Managers

    During 2018–21, Bird Cams Lab enabled scientists and participants to make discoveries about birds using live streaming wildlife cams. In three investigations (Battling Birds, Hawk Talk, and Battling Birds: Panama Edition), participants collected data from archived video footage. In three…

  • Four birds visit the feeding station seen on the Cornell FeederWatch cam. There is a feeding tray filled with seeds. There is a suet feeder in the middle above the tray, and on the left and right are two hanging feeders (four total). The backdrop is leafy green vegetation.
    July 30, 2021Cornell Feeders Live Report Wraps Up Bird Cams Lab

    Thanks to the thoughtful feedback of 15 reviewers, we are now in the last phase of the Cornell Feeders Live investigation: sharing findings. We invite you to read the report and share it with your family and friends. In the…

  • A screenshot of the Cornell FeederWatch cam. A blue Jay (blue-white bird) is perched on the edge of the feeding table on the left looking right at a morning dove (brown-gray bird). There are four hanging feeders around them and a suet feeder in the middle. The feeding station is against a backdrop of green leafy vegetation.
    July 30, 2021Cornell Feeders Live Final Report

    Summary Hundreds of people came together to work with researchers to design an investigation that looked at the birds visiting the Cornell FeederWatch cam. After weeks of sharing observations, discussing, and taking a vote, the community decided to investigate visitation…

  • A red-tailed hawk fledgling looking at the cam and perched on the railing seen on the Red-tailed Hawk cam.
    July 8, 2021Thank you, Bird Cams Lab Community!

    Back in 2018, Bird Cams Lab started as a research project funded by the National Science Foundation. We set out to engage cam viewers from around the world in co-creating scientific investigations together in an online space, and to understand…

  • A Photography of a humming bird flying in the bottom right. The photo credits are in small white text at the bottom right as well and read,
    July 8, 2021How to Stay in Touch and Keep Contributing

    Thank you to everyone who has been a part of Bird Cams Lab! Whether you just joined this past year, or have been with us since the beginning, we sincerely thank you for being a part of our community. Bird…

  • A screenshot of the Cornell FeederWatch cam with a Blue Jay perched on the feeding table and three grackles on the table and hanging feeders. The backdrop is lots of green vegetation and some blue from the pond behind it.
    July 8, 2021Wrapping Up the Final Investigation!

    Thanks to all participants who contributed to the Cornell Feeders Live investigation for Bird Cams Lab, we are on track to release a final report showcasing the community’s findings soon. If you would like to help review a draft of…

  • A feeding table with rice and half-cut oranges that are yellow. Over head are two hooks with banana bunches. There is also a nectar hanging. A Rufous motmot (large yellow-green, blue bird) is perched in the front right corner o the table. A gray-headed chachalaca (large gray-brown bird) is perched on a vine that runs horizontally across the screen. The backdrop are large green leaves and a couple tree trunks.
    June 23, 2021Battling Birds: Panama Findings Are In!

    When it comes to foraging at a feeder in Panama, the bigger the bird, the higher it is in the social pecking order The Bird Cams Lab community joined forces with Cornell Lab of Ornithology researcher Dr. Eliot Miller to…

  • A feeding table with rice and half-cut oranges that are yellow. Over head are two hooks with banana bunches. There is also a nectar hanging. A Rufous motmot (large yellow-green, blue bird) is perched in the front right corner o the table. A gray-headed chachalaca (large gray-brown bird) is perched on a vine that runs horizontally across the screen. The backdrop are large green leaves and a couple tree trunks.
    June 23, 2021Battling Birds: Panama Edition Final Report

    Summary Inspired by community interest in previous Bird Cams Lab investigations about aggressive interactions between birds at feeders, we collaborated with Dr. Eliot Miller to learn more about the social relationships among the birds seen on the Panama Fruit Feeder…

  • A line graph with three different colored lines each referring to a study species. Hour is on the horizontal axis from 5 to 19 and percentage chance species is present is on the vertical axis from 0 to 100. For all species except Northern Cardinal, the percentage chance increases as the morning advances and then decreases in the afternoon. The exact shape of this curved shape varies by species, but is the general pattern. The other species are grayed out and only the American Goldfinch, Black-capped chickadee, and Blue Jay are shown.
    June 22, 2021Birds Don’t Check The Temperature Before Visiting The Feeder

    For the Cornell Feeders Live investigation, we have shared visualizations that highlight (1) the sampling effort (i.e., amount of time watched) and (2) when the study species visited the feeding station. This second set of visualizations helped us start to…

  • Against a white background is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology logo at the top (the name and a sapsucker illustration flying). In the middle is the title of the webinar,
    June 17, 2021Live From Bird Cams Lab: A Webinar About What Goes On At The Cornell Feeders

    Go behind-the-scenes with Bird Cams staff to learn more about the Cornell FeederWatch cam and check out the data visualizations from the Cornell Feeders Live investigation. On June 16, 164 people tuned in for an engaging hour all about the…

  • June 14, 2021Register For Live Webinar About The Cornell Feeders

    Since we started the data exploration phase, more than 240 people have taken a look at the data collected in real time on the Cornell FeederWatch cam. We invite you to continue those conversations with us online, and then join…