Battling Birds: Panama Edition Updates

  • 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…

  • The female barred owl from the Cornell Lab's Barred Owl Cam looking up at the camera and overlayed with a play button.
    May 27, 2021Our STEM for All Video Won The Public Choice Award!

    Thank you to everyone who voted for the video we submitted to the 2021 STEM For All Video Showcase, an annual showcase of projects aiming to improve STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) learning and teaching. In total, more than 2,700…

  • A photo of Great-Horned Owl nestlings is top left, photo of an osprey is bottom left, and on the right is information about the STEM For All Video Showcase. The text reads Save the Dates! May 11-18, 2021. STEM for All Video Showcase. There is a link: http://stemforall2021.videohall.com. There is also a logo for TERC and NSF and icon and accompanying text to illustrate that people are invited to view, discuss, and vote for the videos.
    May 13, 2021Help Our Video Win The Public’s Choice Award

    First, a huge thank you to everyone who has reviewed the draft of the report for the Battling Birds: Panama Edition investigation. We’ve just started to look at your feedback and already see that the report will be improved thanks…

  • An illustration of the phases of a scientific investigation with words and icons to illustrate them. The phases are Observe, Question, Collect, Analyze, Share. Share is highlighted in yellow to represent that this is the phase the investigation is currently in.
    April 29, 2021Weigh In On the Final Report For Battling Birds: Panama Edition

    It’s hard to believe, but we are in the last phase of the Battling Birds: Panama Edition investigation: sharing findings! We’ve worked together to observe the Panama Fruit Feeder cam, come up with a research question, collect data, explore and…

  • This is a screenshot of an interactive visualization. There are photographs of birds connected by gray arrows with a box to the right instructing user to hover over and interact with the photos. There are 13 photos.
    April 21, 2021We’re Wrapping Up Data Exploration For Battling Birds: Panama Edition

    Last week more than 100 people joined us for a live virtual event to talk about our favorite birds on the Panama Fruit Feeder cam and the new insights we had into how different species interact with each other. If…

  • A screenshot taken from the Panama Fruit Feeder of a Gray-cowled Wood-Rail perched on the left side of the feeding table. There are bananas and other pieces of fruit on the feeder. Backdrop is lush green leaves and vines. There are four screenshots of the four speakers in the top right corner.
    April 16, 2021Live From Bird Cams Lab: Understanding Food Fights

    Check out Bird Cams staff and Cornell Lab researcher Dr. Eliot Miller talk about the birds at the Panama Fruit Feeder and what we found out about them in the Battling Birds: Panama Edition investigation. On April 14, 106 people…

  • This is a screenshot of an interactive visualization. There are photographs of birds connected by gray arrows with a box to the right instructing user to hover over and interact with the photos. There are 13 photos.
    April 15, 2021The Interactions Behind The Rankings

    This past winter, a community of more than 1,000 people watched and recorded data in video clips taken from the Panama Fruit Feeder cam. They recorded two key pieces of information: (1) whenever one bird attempted to take the perch…

  • A scatter plot of points in which each color refers to a species in a dominance hierarchy. This is only a close up of the graph to represent the blog post in which the graph is included.
    April 12, 2021Bigger The Bird, Bigger The Punch

    On the Cornell Lab’s Panama Fruit Feeder cam, there are dozens of charismatic bird species who visit a feeding table filled with fruit and rice. Staff at the Canopy Lodge, where the feeding table is located, have to restock it…

  • A gray-headed chachalaca (gray-brown medium-sized bird) is standing on a feeding table that has a couple green and yellow oranges. The backdrop is lots of green vegetation, as in big tropical leaves. In the top right corner is a nectar feeder (red with yellow flowers). There is a yellow crown overlayed on the bird's head.
    April 7, 2021Tag Data And Register For Upcoming Webinar

    As of yesterday, the Bird Cams Lab community has grown to over 7,900 people. Welcome newcomers! We are thrilled to have you join our community of co-creators. Right now there are two investigations underway with two different cams, (1) Battling…

  • Stacked bar chart with orange and blue bars. Blue bars take up the majority of the space. The horizontal scale is from 6 to 18 and the vertical scale is from 0 to 100.
    March 23, 2021It’s Time To Explore!

    We’re ready! Join us in the next phase of the Battling Birds: Panama Edition investigation–data exploration. We’ve completed the first three phases (observe, question, collect data), and now it’s time to look at data visualizations. Regardless of your involvement with…

  • March 23, 2021Dig Into The Data From Battling Birds: Panama

    Explore the data collected by over 1,000 volunteers. Thanks again to everyone who collected data for Battling Birds: Panama Edition. Since the end of data collection in February, we’ve been working with volunteer programmer Peter Mason to extract the data…