Bird Cams Lab
Panama Fruit Feeder Investigation Finalized After Final Poll
The community has spoken! After the most recent poll for your input about designing the study, we now have final, revised research questions: When do focal species arrive at the feeder, and how does this vary from day to day? Does the timing of food affect when birds arrive at the feeder? We also have a final...
January 28, 2020- Video
Panama Feeder Video Recap and New Poll
Take the poll In the video above, we summarize the great discussions the community has had on the Question Design Board and introduce the next step: final refinement of our question for the investigation. Now we’d love your help with designing the study. The topic selected by participants is, “When do different bird species arrive at the...
January 15, 2020 Panama Feeder Question Design
The Bird Cams Lab community recently filled out a quick poll about which question they were most interested in investigating on the Panama Fruit Feeder Cam, and the results are in! The question that rose to the top was: When do different bird species arrive at the feeder–and does the pattern change throughout the day? Questions related to...
December 20, 2019Our 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 people watched the video from around the world, and with your help... 🎉🎉 We Won The...
May 27, 2021New Hawk Investigation Launches
Big Red and Arthur are incubating three eggs on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Red-tailed Hawk cam and it's the perfect time to start a new investigation! As the hawks start their breeding season, join the Bird Cams Lab community to watch the cam, choose which question we should investigate, and make new discoveries about...
April 7, 2020New Data Collection Resources
Since we started collecting data, thousands of observations have been logged by viewers. That’s incredible! For those of you who haven’t had the chance to collect data yet, we’ve created a short 1-minute video to walk you through what data collection looks like. We’ve also created a short video to walk through what each of the...
February 13, 2020Nestlings snack all day on the prey delivered in the morning or afternoon
Last week we released the first set of visualizations that looked at participants’ sampling effort and the first behavior we studied: vocalizations. This week we dive into the other intriguing and fun-to-watch behaviors: feedings, prey deliveries, and three nestling-specific ones (flapping, walking, and mantling). To kick off this second week of data exploration, we feature two...
October 13, 2020Live from the Bird Cams Lab: Q&A Session about Hawk Talk Data Visualizations
Red-tailed Hawk cam viewers and Hawk Talk participants joined the Bird Cams Lab team on February 3rd to discuss the project’s preliminary findings. Charles Eldermire, the Project Leader, kicked things off by welcoming everyone and orienting them to the Zoom tool we were using for the session. Then he went off screen to monitor the chat...
February 5, 2020Live from the Bird Cams Lab: Q&A Session about Battling Birds Data Visualizations
On September 17, participants in Battling Birds joined our Bird Cams staff in a discussion about the different data visualizations created from the first round of data collection. The one-hour live Q&A was fueled by participants’ ideas and questions from both the online forums on the Bird Cams Lab website and during the live-chat. Co-hosts Ben...
September 19, 2019Live from the Bird Cams Lab: Our First Q&A Session
On June 15, 17 participants joined our Bird Cams staff for our very first live Q&A session online. We connected through a link to a Zoom webinar, and because it was our first time using this tool, our team was both excited and nervous to see how it would turn out. At ten minutes to...
June 19, 2018