Panama Live Updates

  • 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
  • May 9, 2018How To Use Disqus

    What is 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…

  • An illustration to show how to choose a research question.
    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…

  • 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? Will the answer provide interesting or valuable insights? Would investigating the question yield…

  • November 6, 2019What Can We Investigate With the Live Data Tagging Tool?

    We’re excited to introduce a new Live Data Tagging tool that we’ll use to collect data for a new Bird Cams Lab investigation on the Panama Fruit Feeder cam. Never before have we been able to tag data right as…

  • December 13, 2019Poll: Questions For The Panama Fruit Feeder Investigation

    We’ve closed the poll! See the results here. ———————————————— We’d love your input! By watching the cam and recording data, participants in the Bird Cams Lab can help us discover new information about the birds at the fruit feeder. Which…

  • December 20, 2019Panama Feeder Question Design

    The Bird Cams Lab community recently filled out a quick poll about which question they were most interested in investigating on the Panama Fruit Feeder Cam, and the results are in! The question that rose to the top was: When…

  • January 15, 2020Panama Feeder Video Recap and New Poll

    Take the poll   In the video above, we summarize the great discussions the community has had on the Question Design Board and introduce the next step: final refinement of our question for the investigation.  Now we’d love your help…

  • January 28, 2020Panama Fruit Feeder Investigation Finalized After Final Poll

      The community has spoken! After the most recent poll for your input about designing the study, we now have final, revised research questions: When do focal species arrive at the feeder, and how does this vary from day to…

  • February 4, 2020Welcome to Panama Live Data Collection

    Great work! Data collection is completed. Click here to see recent updates. Join in the next phase of the first-ever Panama Fruit Feeder investigation: data collection.  The community has spent several weeks watching the feeder, coming up with questions, refining…

  • February 13, 2020New Data Collection Resources

    Since we started collecting data, thousands of observations have been logged by viewers. That’s incredible! For those of you who haven’t had the chance to collect data yet, we’ve created a short 1-minute video to walk you through what data…