# Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-27, Cornell Lab of Ornithology has 561,000 subscribers, 145,709,991 total views, and 729 videos. It ranks #135,779 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Cornell Lab of Ornithology](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Cornell Lab of Ornithology is “America's Two Pelican Species Are So Similar, Yet So Different: Wild Birds Revealed”, a long-form video published Oct 26, 2026.
- These are Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Mar 9, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026 (47 long-form videos and 1 Short).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 10,658. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Learn 10 Bird Songs of Spring—Common Species Across North America” (259,278 views, Apr 9, 2026). Least viewed: “The world’s bustards receive new protections under the Bustard Multi-species Action Plan” (821 views, Sep 23, 2026).
- Median length: 4:18 for 47 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s consecutive uploads were a median of 3 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 31 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 27, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [America's Two Pelican Species Are So Similar, Yet So Different: Wild Birds Revealed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/rO4u8d39Sn4/) | 2026-10-26 | Long-form | 41,810 | 8:28 | 8.44x |
| [Celebrating Forty Years of Project FeederWatch](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/wLVnXVFORTw/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 21,987 | 5:56 | 5.32x |
| [Listening to nature’s heartbeat: How sound can help us conserve birds](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/7UsZ8p7DGjg/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 2,866 | 40:27 | - |
| [Project FeederWatch Presents: Bird-Glass Collision Study](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/A9GH7AjZJwU/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 2,575 | 16:37 | - |
| [Project FeederWatch Presents: Helping Birds at Home](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/Dy-Y7o4yttk/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 2,335 | 12:55 | - |
| [The History and Legacy of Project FeederWatch: Connecting people to birds for 40 years and counting](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/SMU8L5CB2CI/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 2,228 | 28:25 | - |
| [Introduction to Birding in Asia with James Eaton](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/d8qWBX6j8_Y/) | 2026-10-21 | Long-form | 3,449 | 1:31:23 | - |
| [Seismic Surveying in Arctic Alaska](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/iZvABlyZXQU/) | 2026-10-20 | Long-form | 8,724 | 7:58 | - |
| [The world’s bustards receive new protections under the Bustard Multi-species Action Plan](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/8Wib8EReh6w/) | 2026-09-24 | Long-form | 7,001 | 1:33:47 | - |
| [The world’s bustards receive new protections under the Bustard Multi-species Action Plan](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/CiqxSQ8CEUw/) | 2026-09-23 | Long-form | 821 | 1:49:34 | - |
| [Watch Costa's and Anna's Hummingbirds Hover and Sparkle: Wild Birds Revealed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/6WODTffcmhI/) | 2026-09-11 | Long-form | 222,612 | 8:19 | 9.43x |
| [Northern Flicker: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/txOdaESdhJQ/) | 2026-09-09 | Long-form | 55,594 | 2:48 | 2.97x |
| [Eastern Bluebird: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/PQlRkqnFdPM/) | 2026-09-03 | Long-form | 16,696 | 2:56 | 4.79x |
| [Wood Duck: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/PINj-sj_-9M/) | 2026-09-01 | Long-form | 26,525 | 2:29 | 2.13x |
| [Migration Celebration 2026 Announcement](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/0cFeUbLGs1Y/) | 2026-09-01 | Long-form | 9,599 | 1:02 | 2.75x |
| [Great Blue Heron: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/G643AE1s4gY/) | 2026-08-31 | Long-form | 69,384 | 2:44 | 5.48x |
| [Peregrine Falcon: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/QK-xuFLg8hE/) | 2026-08-26 | Long-form | 80,608 | 2:43 | 6.36x |
| [Snowy Owl: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/vp638yxLgts/) | 2026-08-24 | Long-form | 10,672 | 2:40 | 3.08x |
| [Barn Swallow: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/6A_0CvMwy68/) | 2026-08-20 | Long-form | 13,474 | 2:39 | 3.87x |
| [American Woodcock: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/vsyA9tHFhXM/) | 2026-08-19 | Long-form | 20,706 | 2:29 | 1.6x |
| [Song Sparrow: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/HWp6sjScbvs/) | 2026-08-18 | Long-form | 9,290 | 2:07 | 2.67x |
| [Red-tailed Hawk: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/epMcPgVRdiQ/) | 2026-08-17 | Long-form | 11,392 | 2:20 | 3.27x |
| [Mallard: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/Rab2-CvLRhE/) | 2026-08-13 | Long-form | 6,985 | 2:06 | 2.01x |
| [House Finch: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/tKooDcVc3uY/) | 2026-08-12 | Long-form | 14,017 | 1:59 | 4.02x |
| [Blue Jay: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/kYLVrKS5Bbo/) | 2026-08-10 | Long-form | 11,866 | 2:31 | 3.42x |
| [Eastern Whip-poor-will: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/wFrgUdZ_uWs/) | 2026-08-10 | Long-form | 183,414 | 2:41 | 28.61x |
| [Black-capped Chickadee: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/-ap-CyjpCw4/) | 2026-08-06 | Long-form | 14,950 | 1:54 | 2.25x |
| [Bald Eagle: Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/8q7vsAlkzuE/) | 2026-08-05 | Long-form | 4,939 | 2:01 | 1.42x |
| [Killdeer—Bird in the Spotlight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/K6TVCY1ab4M/) | 2026-07-30 | Long-form | 52,183 | 2:52 | 6.43x |
| [Live Sketching with Liz Recorded Event](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/i7NCYTnKazk/) | 2026-07-27 | Long-form | 7,462 | 1:28:20 | - |
| [The Sky Rivers of Ecuador](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/FRveBSNj2Nc/) | 2026-07-24 | Long-form | 9,152 | 2:57 | 2.62x |
| [Draw a Northern Saw-whet Owl—Summer Sketching Series 3](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/rdnFUdYAk5E/) | 2026-07-24 | Long-form | 1,516 | 5:25 | - |
| [Draw a Great Blue Heron—Summer Sketching Series 2](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/yHekrQddgKg/) | 2026-07-16 | Long-form | 2,220 | 4:16 | - |
| [Draw a White-breasted Nuthatch—Summer Sketching Series 1](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/G0PuMRFHiUo/) | 2026-07-08 | Short | 5,046 | 2:41 | 1.45x |
| [Searching for the Subandean Parakeet \[Spanish Language Live Event Recording\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/qj9Dw12PL28/) | 2026-06-24 | Long-form | 1,927 | 1:23:10 | - |
| [Support Birds All Summer Long \| Welcome Back Birds! \[Live Event Recording\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/HqNiy0ms8iQ/) | 2026-06-22 | Long-form | 5,359 | 1:02:07 | - |
| [Jocotoco](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/bwSvkLhqHc0/) | 2026-06-12 | Long-form | 12,166 | 8:25 | - |
| [Often Overlooked](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/UvrnuI6xxkk/) | 2026-06-04 | Long-form | 17,002 | 6:21 | 1.64x |
| [Walk in the Woods with Kevin McGowan](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/cFxYFZ1OJNk/) | 2026-05-29 | Long-form | 8,759 | 10:53 | - |
| [Bird Migration In Your Backyard Live Event \[Recording\] \| Welcome Back Birds!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/s-kvKZPN7HE/) | 2026-05-15 | Long-form | 10,644 | 1:00:55 | 1.04x |
| [Meet 12 Birds You Can Only See On Spring and Autumn Migration](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/CRwXFortpuI/) | 2026-05-13 | Long-form | 81,473 | 7:10 | 3.63x |
| [Take a mindfulness break with serene birds and jazzy lofi beats.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/VUxr2pReJpE/) | 2026-05-07 | Long-form | 89,868 | 2:58 | 7.74x |
| [Take a mindfulness break with birds and relaxing music!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/qocMQAyPWIk/) | 2026-05-07 | Long-form | 2,120 | 2:52 | - |
| [Learn 12 Bird Songs of Spring: Western U.S. & Canada](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/8MEPtpAUphY/) | 2026-04-27 | Long-form | 13,040 | 5:13 | - |
| [Learn 12 Bird Songs of Spring: Eastern U.S. & Canada](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/CbJgJb12o4w/) | 2026-04-24 | Long-form | 31,858 | 5:37 | - |
| [Welcome Back Birds - Bird Songs of Spring Live Event \[Recording\] \| Cornell Lab](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/elqXRuIjyb8/) | 2026-04-14 | Long-form | 10,294 | 1:01:49 | - |
| [Learn 10 Bird Songs of Spring—Common Species Across North America](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/y_Qth14J5Lk/) | 2026-04-09 | Long-form | 259,278 | 4:18 | 2.7x |
| [The Hidden World of Nests and Eggs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@cornell_lab/videos/GssakHZ9s5Y/) | 2026-03-09 | Long-form | 4,958 | 2:33 | 1.42x |

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