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New 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, 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 Bird Cams Lab: Virtual Event Uncovers the Lives of Tropical Feeder Birds
Over 100 people tuned in to join the Bird Cams staff on September 10th in a free virtual event, “Panama Live: Uncovering The Lives Of Tropical Feeder Birds.” In the course of an hour, we watched video clips of six species that visit the Panama Fruit Feeder cam, learned about their natural history, shared new...
September 16, 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, 2020How many focal species are arriving throughout the day?
Welcome to the first week of Panama Live Data Exploration! Join us to dig into the data you collected to see what we can find out. Today, we’re featuring a visualization that looks at the average number of species arriving at a feeder throughout the day. For about two weeks in February, participants recorded when individuals birds...
August 10, 2020Hawk 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, 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 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, 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 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, 2020