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March 22, 2019Battling 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, 2019The Team
You and the cam community are invited to join us as part of the co-created scientific investigation every step of the way. Rachael Mady is the Bird Cams Lab Project Leader at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Eliot Miller is the Collections Development Manager for Macaulay and a researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Charles Eldermire is...
August 29, 2019Hawk Talk: About the Nest
Hawk Talk is a project co-created by cam viewers and scientists. The data collection phase was hosted on Zooniverse, an easy-to-use platform that hosts hundreds of other citizen-science projects from arts to astronomy to wildlife. There, over 1,400 citizen scientists collected data from over 8,000 clips! These clips were taken from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Red-tailed...
November 21, 2019Hawk Talk: From Zooniverse to Here
Red-tailed Hawks are found across North America, and their calls are so iconic that moviegoers around the globe have heard hawk calls used by producers to depict Bald Eagles in films. Even though the raspy call of the Red-tailed Hawk and other vocalizations have been documented by researchers on the ground, Red-tailed Hawk vocalizations have...
November 21, 2019Poll: Questions For The Panama Fruit Feeder Investigation
We've closed the poll! See the results here. ------------------------------------------------ We’d love your input! By watching the cam and recording data, participants in the Bird Cams Lab can help us discover new information about the birds at the fruit feeder. Which question should we investigate? Answer the questions below to help us get started. Later we'll reflect on the...
December 13, 2019- 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 What’s Happening When Hawks Vocalize?
Welcome to the first week of Hawk Talk Data Exploration! Let's dig into the data you collected to see what we can find out. Today we're featuring a visualization that looks at what the hawks were doing when they were vocalizing. Click here to see the interactive version of this graph. This chart helps us begin to explore...
January 16, 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, 2020Join Us For A Live Question & Answer Session about Hawk Talk Visualizations
The Bird Cams Lab team invites the community to join us for a live discussion about the preliminary findings from the Hawk Talk project. We invite you to simply listen in, ask questions, or point out neat things you’ve noticed. In 2018, we embarked on a scientific investigation with the Red-tailed Hawk cam community. We talked...
January 27, 2020