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…

  • 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…

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    September 16, 2020Live from Bird Cams Lab: Virtual Event Uncovers the Lives of Tropical Feeder Birds

    Over 100 people tuned in to join the Bird Cams staff on September 10th in a free virtual event, “Panama Live: Uncovering The Lives Of Tropical Feeder Birds.” In the course of an hour, we watched video clips of six…

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    September 3, 2020Learn About Tropical Birds At Live Webinar

    We had over 100 people weigh in to let us know when the best date and time would be to meet for our upcoming live event: Panama Live: Uncovering the lives of tropical feeder birds. Based on the responses, we’ll…

  • 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…

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    August 10, 2020How many focal species are arriving throughout the day?

    Welcome to the first week of Panama Live Data Exploration!

    Join us to dig into the data you collected to see what we can find out. Today, we’re featuring a visualization that looks at the average number of species arriving at…

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    September 22, 2020Community inspires deeper dive into the data

    The Panama Live community inspired us to dig deeper into the data and create a new set of visualizations! During last week’s live webinar, Panama Live: Uncovering The Lives Of Six Tropical Feeder Birds (watch it here if you missed…