Cornell Feeders Live Updates

  • 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…

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    February 25, 2021Live From Bird Cams Lab: Birds, Feeders, And Science

    On February 23, 244 people tuned in to learn more about the newest Bird Cams Lab investigation, Cornell Feeders Live, and the cam it’s based on, the Cornell FeederWatch cam. Bird Cams staff highlighted discussions on the Wonder Board and…

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    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…

  • A red-bellied woodpecker perches on a suet feeder in the middle, which is surrounded by hanging feeder and is above a platform feeder filled with seed. The red-bellied woodpecker has a red head, black-and-white striped wings, and a white face and belly. The background is a snow-covered landscape and bare vegetation.
    March 11, 2021It’s Time To Vote!

    Over the past two weeks, the Bird Cams Lab community has worked together to share and discuss ideas on the Wonder Board and Question Design Board. The community is full of curiosity and has proposed many interesting questions. Given that…

  • May 9, 2018How To Use Disqus

    Disqus is an easy-to-use discussion tool that you’ll use to comment or upvote other comments in any Bird Cams Lab forum. On the forums, you’ll be able to post questions, share your thoughts, and provide links to helpful information. In…

  • May 18, 2018How to Choose or Refine a Good Cam-Testable Question

    So you’ve identified some questions that you think could be answered with cam footage. How do you decide which ones make the best questions for an investigation?

    Would investigating the question yield new insights about birds? How excited are you…

  • 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 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 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…

  • 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 platform feeder is filled with seed and there are four hanging feeders and a snowman shaped feeder. There are multiple bird species on the feeders, including a white-breasted nuthatch and pine siskins on the platform feeder. A downy woodpecker can also be seed perched on a feeder.
    March 1, 2021Cornell Feeders Live Question Design

    See the most recent project updates.

    The observations and the discussion on the Wonder Board generated a variety of questions, and we’ve summarized the questions with the most upvotes into five groups to focus the conversation on honing the most interesting…

  • 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…