Panama Live Updates

  • 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 day? Does…

  • January 15, 2020Panama Feeder Video Recap and New 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 with designing the study. The…

  • 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 do different…

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

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    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 question should we investigate? Answer the questions below to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 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 8, 2018Video: A 3-minute Introduction to the Bird Cams Lab
  • 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…