Battling Birds: Panama Edition Updates

  • A photo of Dr. Eliot Mille standing on a hillside among dry grass.
    December 3, 2020Welcome Dr. Miller!

    We’re about to launch Battling Birds: Panama Edition, our next investigation around the Panama Fruit Feeder cam with Dr. Eliot Miller. He is the Collections Development Manager for the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library, and has previously researched the social lives…

  • May 18, 2018How to Choose or Refine a Good Cam-Testable Question

    So you’ve identified some questions that you think could be answered with cam footage. How do you decide which ones make the best questions for an investigation?

    Would investigating the question yield new insights about birds? How excited are you…

  • An illustration to show how to choose a research question.
    May 18, 2018What Kinds of Questions Can We Investigate?

    Watching the Bird Cams can generate all kinds of questions. Some questions may have answers already based on past research. Other questions may not have answers yet—but could be answered by collecting and analyzing data from the cams. It’s those…

  • May 9, 2018How To Use Disqus

    Disqus is an easy-to-use discussion tool that you’ll use to comment or upvote other comments in any Bird Cams Lab forum. On the forums, you’ll be able to post questions, share your thoughts, and provide links to helpful information. In…

  • May 8, 2018Video: A 3-minute Introduction to the Bird Cams Lab