Center for Conservation Biology
July 18, 2024
By Bryan Watts7/13/24 Like blue crabs and salt marshes, the osprey is interwoven into the fabric of the Chesapeake Bay culture. Many generations of Bay residents […]
July 18, 2024
By Bryan Watts 7/18/23 Between 2023 and 2024, Virginia peregrine falcons experienced a spike in adult turnover. The mean replacement rate (percentage of identified individuals lost) […]
April 2, 2024
By: Chance Hines 4/2/24 The Great Dismal Swamp is one of the largest intact wetland ecosystems in the eastern United States and the expansive wilderness creates a […]
March 30, 2024
By: Bryan Watts4/2/24 CCB is thrilled to announce the launch of OspreyWatch 2.0. With support from conservationists Briscoe and Kenan White and innovative programmer Jim Verhagen […]
March 30, 2024
By: Bryan Watts4/1/24 The Biology Department within William & Mary has been a center for osprey work for more than 50 years. Over that time, the […]
March 30, 2024
By: Bryan Watts3/31/24 On the 29th of May 1978, Charlie Blem, the ornithologist in the biology department at Virginia Commonwealth University, was checking a cattle egret […]
March 30, 2024
By: Bryan Watts3/30/24 I carried two pairs of welders’ gloves and Stan Wiemeyer carried a wide-mouthed hand net as we walked down a long line of […]
January 12, 2024
By: Bryan Watts1/4/2024 One of CCB’s objectives is to make information available that will have a positive impact on conservation outcomes. CCB conducts primary conservation research. […]
January 12, 2024
By: Bryan Watts1/4/2024 The Virginia breeding population of peregrine falcons continued its slow advance in 2023. The known population reached a record 35 breeding pairs. The […]
January 11, 2024
By: Bryan Watts1/4/2024 We put in on Hoskins Creek in Tappahannock and ran out to the open Rappahannock River. Mitchell Byrd was at the helm of […]
January 11, 2024
By: Chance Hines12/18/2023 Ipswich sparrows make their home in the coastal dunes of the mid-Atlantic where CCB has studied them since the mid-2000s. While the bulk […]
January 11, 2024
By: Bryan Watts1/2/2024 There is something inspirational about walking through a Frank Lloyd Wright house or inspecting a George Nakashima bench. The organic lines and wholeness […]
October 4, 2023
By: Chance Hines10/5/23 While temperatures outside continue soaring, the shortening days and falling leaves remind us that autumn is nearing. This time of year also finds […]
October 3, 2023
By: Bryan Watts10/1/23 We sat together in silence as if in a Quaker meeting. He perched on a limb next to a large nest and me […]
October 3, 2023
By: Bryan Watts9/29/23 The yellow-crowned night-heron has found its sweet spot along the Lafayette River in Norfolk, VA. The species expanded its breeding range north along […]
October 3, 2023
By: Bryan Watts9/29/23 Along the Atlantic coast there are few sounds that mark the coming of spring as much as the raucous calls of laughing gulls. […]
September 29, 2023
By: Bryan Watts9/29/2023 By the early 1990s, the conservation community had reached a critical point of decision about the future of the red-cockaded woodpecker in Virginia. […]
July 14, 2023
For release: July 14, 2023 Williamsburg, VA – In 2023, The Center for Conservation Biology has documented the highest rate of osprey nest failure ever recorded […]