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Watch our new short video tutorial that walks you through how to collect data for the Hawk Happenings investigation. ...
June 4, 2020Battling Birds: About the Feeder
Battling Birds is a project on Zooniverse, an easy-to-use platform that hosts hundreds of other citizen-science projects from arts to astronomy to wildlife. There, over 2,000 citizen scientists collected data from over 10,000 clips! These clips were taken from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's FeederWatch cam, located in the Treman Bird Feeding Garden at the Cornell...
June 19, 2019Battling Birds: Panama Edition Launches
Join the Bird Cams Lab community in the newest investigation, Battling Birds: Panama Edition. Just like the first Battling Birds investigation, we want to learn more about what birds are doing at a feeder. However, this time we'll virtually be in Panama, watching the Panama Fruit Feeder cam! As we designed Panama Live, the last investigation...
December 8, 2020Changing Vocalizations
Last week we found out that when nestling were vocalizing, they were also primarily being fed or the adult was brooding. This week, we’ll dig deeper into both nestling and adult vocalizations to see if and how they change over time. Click here to see the interactive version of this graph. In the chart above we focus...
January 22, 2020Cornell Feeders Live: About The Feeder
Cornell Feeders Live is a project co-created by cam viewers and scientists to answer two questions: (1) What is the daily visitation pattern of different species at the feeders? (2) How does weather affect the probability of different species visiting the feeders? Cam viewers collected data in real time from the Cornell FeederWatch cam, clicking a...
May 24, 2021Cornell Feeders Live: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Answers to your questions about collecting data for the Cornell Feeders Live investigation. Click on any of the questions below to navigate to the answer. How do I create an account to collect data? How do I create an account to post on the Discussion Board? I'm not familiar with the species. Can I still participate? ...
March 23, 2021Final Hawk Talk Report
Background Over the past decade, the communities watching the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s live Bird Cams have surfaced new insights about the birds featured on cam. One such community watching the Red-tailed Hawk cam took the next step and began logging each prey item brought to the nest using Twitter and Google spreadsheets. To date, they...
March 19, 2020Hawk Happenings Question Design
This section is currently inactive. We’ve finished refining questions. See the most recent project updates. Which Question to Investigate? We’re almost ready to start a new investigation! In the recent Sorting Activity, more than 90 people looked at 12 questions from the Wonder Board and sorted them into those that could or couldn’t be answered using the...
April 20, 2020Hawk Happenings: About the Nest
Hawk Happenings is the second Bird Cams Lab investigation to collect data about the Red-tailed Hawks featured on the Cornell Hawks cam (the first was Hawk Talk). From May to June 2020, participants used a data tagging tool to record hawk behavior live while watching the cam. The Cornell Hawks cam follows a pair of Red-tailed...
September 8, 2020Hawk Happenings: Final Report
Key Takeaways Red-tailed Hawk cam viewers teamed up with scientists to co-create an investigation and learn how the hawks’ behaviors changed in relation to time and weather. During the 2020 breeding season, 323 cam viewers collected 12,585 observations of six behaviors in real time. In exploring the data online and in a live webinar with...
November 24, 2020