Cornell Feeders Live Updates

  • Four birds visit the feeding station seen on the Cornell FeederWatch cam. There is a feeding tray filled with seeds. There is a suet feeder in the middle above the tray, and on the left and right are two hanging feeders (four total). The backdrop is leafy green vegetation.
    July 30, 2021Cornell Feeders Live Report Wraps Up Bird Cams Lab

    Thanks to the thoughtful feedback of 15 reviewers, we are now in the last phase of the Cornell Feeders Live investigation: sharing findings. We invite you to read the report and share it with your family and friends. In the…

  • A screenshot of the Cornell FeederWatch cam. A blue Jay (blue-white bird) is perched on the edge of the feeding table on the left looking right at a morning dove (brown-gray bird). There are four hanging feeders around them and a suet feeder in the middle. The feeding station is against a backdrop of green leafy vegetation.
    July 30, 2021Cornell Feeders Live Final Report

    Hundreds of people came together to work with researchers to design an investigation that looked at the birds visiting the Cornell FeederWatch cam.
    After weeks of sharing observations, discussing, and taking a vote, the community decided to investigate visitation…

  • A screenshot of the Cornell FeederWatch cam with a Blue Jay perched on the feeding table and three grackles on the table and hanging feeders. The backdrop is lots of green vegetation and some blue from the pond behind it.
    July 8, 2021Wrapping Up the Final Investigation!

    Thanks to all participants who contributed to the Cornell Feeders Live investigation for Bird Cams Lab, we are on track to release a final report showcasing the community’s findings soon. If you would like to help review a draft of…

  • A line graph with three different colored lines each referring to a study species. Hour is on the horizontal axis from 5 to 19 and percentage chance species is present is on the vertical axis from 0 to 100. For all species except Northern Cardinal, the percentage chance increases as the morning advances and then decreases in the afternoon. The exact shape of this curved shape varies by species, but is the general pattern. The other species are grayed out and only the American Goldfinch, Black-capped chickadee, and Blue Jay are shown.
    June 22, 2021Birds Don’t Check The Temperature Before Visiting The Feeder

    For the Cornell Feeders Live investigation, we have shared visualizations that highlight (1) the sampling effort (i.e., amount of time watched) and (2) when the study species visited the feeding station. This second set of visualizations helped us start to…

  • Against a white background is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology logo at the top (the name and a sapsucker illustration flying). In the middle is the title of the webinar,
    June 17, 2021Live From Bird Cams Lab: A Webinar About What Goes On At The Cornell Feeders

    On June 16, 164 people tuned in for an engaging hour all about the Cornell FeederWatch cam. Bird Cams staff showed where the cam is located at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and shared two of our favorite clips from…

  • June 14, 2021Register For Live Webinar About The Cornell Feeders

    Since we started the data exploration phase, more than 240 people have taken a look at the data collected in real time on the Cornell FeederWatch cam. We invite you to continue those conversations with us online, and then join…

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    June 1, 2021We were almost always watching!

    For two weeks, the Bird Cams Lab and Bird Cams community came together to tag data in real time from the Cornell FeederWatch cam. At the end of data collection, the community amassed over 120,000 observations of the eight study…

  • The female barred owl from the Cornell Lab's Barred Owl Cam looking up at the camera and overlayed with a play button.
    May 27, 2021Our 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…

  • A graph with different colored lines for each day during data collection (3/31 through 4/14). Hour is on the horizontal axis and Temperature(Fahrenheit is on the vertical axis. The horizontal axis is from 5 to 19 and the vertical axis is from 0 to 80. The lines vary in their shape, but most follow a pattern of lower in the morning and greater in the afternoon.
    May 27, 2021What was the weather like during data collection for Cornell Feeders Live?

    When we came together to figure out what to study with the Cornell FeederWatch cam, many people in the community were interested in the effects of weather. Several people shared their observations at their own bird feeders and their predictions…

  • A bar graph with blue and orange bars. The number of observations is on the vertical axis from 0 to 30. The time is on the horizontal axis from 8:00 to 16:00.
    May 26, 2021Cornell Feeders Live: From Observations to Visualizations

    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s FeederWatch cam gives us a window into the lives of birds seen at backyard feeders in the Northeast United States. While many of the species are considered common and well-researched, we can still make discoveries…

  • A photo of Great-Horned Owl nestlings is top left, photo of an osprey is bottom left, and on the right is information about the STEM For All Video Showcase. The text reads Save the Dates! May 11-18, 2021. STEM for All Video Showcase. There is a link: http://stemforall2021.videohall.com. There is also a logo for TERC and NSF and icon and accompanying text to illustrate that people are invited to view, discuss, and vote for the videos.
    May 13, 2021Help Our Video Win The Public’s Choice Award

    First, a huge thank you to everyone who has reviewed the draft of the report for the Battling Birds: Panama Edition investigation. We’ve just started to look at your feedback and already see that the report will be improved thanks…

  • A horizontal bar chart with species along the vertical axis and the number of observations recorded for each species rom 0 to 50,000 on the horizontal axis. There is a picture of each species next to its name and each bar is a color that the species has (ex: American Goldfinch bar is yellow). There were 1484 observations for American Goldfinch, 37,905 for Black-capped Chickadee, 15042 for Blue Jay, 9538 for Northern Cardinal, 2502 for Red-bellied Woodpecker, 43063 for Red-winged Blackbird, 10034 for Tufted Titmouse, and 2203 for White-breasted nuthatch.
    April 21, 2021Cornell Feeders Live: Data Exploration Is Around The Corner

    Thank you to the 495 people who participated in the data collection phase, from tagging data to sharing your thoughts and questions on the Discussion Board. We’re excited to start digging into the incredible amount of data you collected: more…