We welcome everybody to take part within the stay chat. Our chat is managed by volunteer moderators who assist to reply questions and who preserve the chat a protected, welcoming, and academic place to share details about birds in actual time. We ask that each one moderators and contributors observe the rules beneath. Thanks!
Find out how to log in to the chat
To take part in Cornell Hawks chat, you have to to create a Google Account in the event you don’t have one already.
You don’t want to log in to learn the chat. With the intention to remark within the chat, you have to signal into YouTube together with your Google Account and be subscribed to the Cornell Lab Chook Cams YouTube channel.
To entry chat, open the chat window by clicking the “Chat” button above the Cornell Hawks cam stay stream. When you’re not logged in/subscribed and the chat is presently open, you’ll see a message stating, “Subscribers-only mode. Messages that seem are from individuals who subscribe to this channel.”
Remember that the chat could also be closed throughout components of the day, and also you received’t have the ability to kind within the chat until it’s throughout the scheduled chat hours. When you’ve got problem signing in, try this YouTube Assist troubleshooting information.
Cornell Hawks Chat Hours
In 2024, the Cornell Hawks stay chat is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Beginning April 27, be part of us on the chat on Monday, Wednesday, Saturday from 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. ET; Tuesday from 1:00 P.M. to three:00 P.M. ET; and Thursday from 12:00 P.M. to 2:00 P.M. ET, pending availability of moderators and employees.
Find out how to Chat
- Click on the “Chat” icon positioned subsequent to the “Updates” icon above the stay stream, which is able to open a window subsequent to the stay cam.
- You might also come out the chat window utilizing the “popout” setting on the underside of the window.
- To maneuver the chat window, click on and drag the gray bar on the prime. You may place it anyplace you want.
Guiding Rules of Chook Cams Chat
Please preserve these requirements of habits in thoughts always.
Respect always
Folks of all ages and backgrounds watch our cams, together with schoolchildren. Please use language that’s applicable for youngsters to learn, and be form and respectful always, throughout the day and at night time. Keep away from private assaults and delicate or divisive feedback on matters corresponding to faith, politics, race, and orientation. We’re right here to speak in regards to the birds!
We’re right here for the birds
Please preserve the chat on-topic, particularly throughout busy occasions when the chat flows rapidly. Share observations and concepts in regards to the birds and different wildlife. Please preserve private statements to a minimal. When the chat quantity is manageable, we encourage you to share favourite sources and hyperlinks to details about birds, however please ask the moderator on obligation whether it is OK to publish a hyperlink earlier than doing so. We additionally ask that you don’t promote items and companies. Please don’t chat in ALL CAPS since this will make the chat more durable to observe and should come throughout to others as “yelling.”
Moderators have a difficult job
Our volunteer moderators do their easiest to reply questions, however it’s inconceivable for them to reply all of them, particularly when the chat could be very busy. Please be affected person and understanding. Moderators are folks, too! It’s not straightforward to average a real-time chat. Please thank the moderators for giving us all the chance to speak.
Please don’t give out private data
Do not forget that there are literally thousands of folks watching the chat. Please don’t give out personally identifiable data corresponding to names, e-mail and postal addresses, and cellphone numbers.
Academics and school rooms within the chat
We frequently get visits from Okay-12 school rooms in our Chook Cams chat. When school rooms are concerned within the chat, please additionally enable time for academics to ask questions and moderators to answer. Thanks!
Your suggestions is essential to us
You may assist us present the very best service by letting us know what’s working effectively within the chat, or how we will enhance. To ship your feedback, e-mail us at birdcams@cornell.edu. We learn all messages, though we remorse that when the quantity is excessive, we could not have the ability to reply personally to every one. Thanks to your understanding.
Benefit from the birds
Thanks for becoming a member of us to look at the birds, and for contributing your questions, observations, and concepts within the Chook Cams chat.
