Introducing Saint Vincent College’s new birdfeeder webcam: what’s its purpose? James S. Kellam, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology I’m truly excited to announce a collaboration between PixCams, Inc., the Department of Biology at Saint Vincent College, and Winnie Palmer Nature…
Welcome to the World Series of Birding Dr. Jim Kellam, Associate Professor of Biology Saint Vincent College Let’s play a guessing game. First, let’s list the states within 100 miles of the Pennsylvania border: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey,…
How to Build a BirdNET Listening Station BirdNET is real-time acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, and 0W2 built on the TFLite version of BirdNET. BirdNET is an AI algorithm developed by a a joint project…
Incubation Costs Calories Dr. Jim Kellam, Associate Professor of Biology, Saint Vincent College This year I began a multi-year study of bird nesting success at Saint Vincent College. With the help of students in March, I erected 52 wooden nest…
New Bird Sound ID for PixCams Live Streams PixCams has recently added some of our live streaming cams to the BirdWeather APP powered by BirdNET. BirdWeather, developed by Tim Clark, is a user interface of geographically placed listing stations from…
Conversion of Lake to Wetland Habitat Predicted to Provide Habitat for Rails Dr. Jim Kellam, Associate Professor of Biology, Saint Vincent College May 5, 2022 May and June are peak months of activity for most birds, which means as an…
Making an oriole feeder for the spring migration The spring migration is one of our most active times at our PA Bird Feeder 2 feeding station located in the woods of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Usually around the last week in April…
7 Live Streaming Nest Box Cams for 2022 Nesting Season! We have been busy over the winter months building and installing nest box cams over our properties. We have installed 25 nest boxes in all. This season we have expanded…
What to do when a bird is trapped indoors by Dr. Jim Kellam Ornithologist at Saint Vincent College I got an email this morning from a professor in the English Department. He said there was a bird in a classroom.…
Dr. Jim Kellam likes to Tell Bird Stories “Jim! The Hays Eagle just had an egg hatch!” called my wife from the living room in early 2014. For days before, she and her elementary school students had been watching the…