March 19, 2020The Final Results Are In!Since May 2018, more than 1,400 members of the Hawk Talk project put on their citizen-science caps and joined other viewers and scientists on a mission to reveal new insights from the Red-tailed Hawk cam. The community watched the cam,…
February 5, 2020Live from the Bird Cams Lab: Q&A Session about Hawk Talk Data VisualizationsRed-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…
January 27, 2020Situations Over TimeThis week’s featured visualization displays how frequently the two most common situations at the nest occur across time—adults brooding nestlings and adults feeding nestlings.
Click here to see the interactive version of this graph.
In the chart above, the orange bars represent…
January 27, 2020Join Us For A Live Question & Answer Session about Hawk Talk VisualizationsThe 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…
January 22, 2020Changing VocalizationsLast 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…
January 16, 2020What’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.
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November 21, 2019Hawk Talk: From Zooniverse to HereRed-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…
August 29, 2019Hawk Talk Data Collection is Complete!We finished collecting the the data set for Hawk Talk on August 23rd. Thank you to everyone that helped us cross the finish line. Over 1,400 contributors classified over 47,000 classifications on over 8,000 subjects. That’s incredible!
Now we’ll take the…
- February 5, 2019Tag Data on our new Zooniverse Project “Hawk Talk”
July 13, 2018An Exciting Question, and a Look AheadAfter weeks of brainstorming, sorting, and discussing questions, we now have a winning question to investigate, based on more than 100 votes cast. Out of the seven proposed questions, the runaway winner was
“Do the hawks use different kinds of calls…
June 28, 2018Get Ready to Vote! Here’s a Rundown of the Seven QuestionsIt’s finally time to vote on the question that you think will make for the best, most interesting investigation. A big shout-out to everyone who shared their thoughts and participated in discussions on the Question Design board. Your input was…
June 19, 2018Live from the Bird Cams Lab: Our First Q&A SessionOn June 15, 17 participants joined our Bird Cams staff for our very first live Q&A session online. We connected through a link to a Zoom webinar, and because it was our first time using this tool, our team was…