Hawk Talk Updates

  • June 19, 2018Wonder Board Brainstorm: Your Questions, Summarized

    From May 29 to June 5, participants posted and commented on more than 50 questions on the Wonder Board! We also received a suggestion to organize the questions by topic to make them easier to digest. To do this, the…

  • 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…

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    May 18, 2018What Kinds of Questions Can We Investigate?

    Watching the Bird Cams can generate all kinds of questions. Some questions may have answers already based on past research. Other questions may not have answers yet—but could be answered by collecting and analyzing data from the cams. It’s those…

  • In 2014, viewers tallied 69 chipmunks brought to the nest, along with a diversity of other prey items.
    May 7, 2018Welcome to the Bird Cams Lab!

    Do you love watching the Bird Cams? We invite you to help us create a new project called Bird Cams Lab, funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to join viewers from around the world…

  • May 8, 2018Video: A 3-minute Introduction to the Bird Cams Lab
  • March 19, 2020The Final Results Are In!

    More Than A Thousand Participants Surfaced New Data On Hawk Vocalizations 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…

  • February 5, 2019Tag Data on our new Zooniverse Project “Hawk Talk”
  • January 27, 2020Situations Over Time

    This 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…

  • June 19, 2018Seven Cam-Testable Questions You Identified in Sorting Activity

    Thanks to 62 participants who helped sort 12 questions from the Wonder Board, we have now identified 7 questions that most think can be identified using cam footage. For a summary of results, see the graph below. As you can…

  • February 5, 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…

  • June 19, 2018Live from the Bird Cams Lab: Our First Q&A Session

    On 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…

  • January 27, 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…