Center for Conservation Biology
July 17, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 July 17, 2018 The 2018 breeding season was a roller coaster for endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers in Virginia. Moving […]
July 17, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 July 17, 2018 CCB biologists have monitored breeding herons within residential neighborhoods of tidewater Virginia (including the cities […]
July 16, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 July 16, 2018 The brown pelican and double-crested cormorant nesting colony on South Point Marsh is like a […]
July 16, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 July 16, 2018 The 2018 breeding season along the James River continued a trend that has been documented […]
April 5, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 April 5, 2018 For the Northeast coast, the winter of 2017-2018 went out with a dramatic train of […]
April 4, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 and Fletcher Smith | fmsmit@wm.edu | (757) 221-1617 April 4, 2018 The coast of Georgia plays a significant […]
April 3, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 April 3, 2018 2017 was a good year for red-cockaded woodpeckers in Virginia. The combined spring, breeding, and […]
April 2, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 April 2, 2018 Nonbreeding bald eagles are highly social and form communal roosts around profitable foraging sites. We […]
March 30, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 March 30, 2018 Fletcher Smith and I had been working birds on the Acadian Peninsula for ten days. […]
January 8, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 January 8, 2018 Unlike many familiar bird species, male and female bald eagles have identical plumage making them […]
January 8, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 January 7, 2018 Virginia supported a known population of 29 pairs of peregrine falcons during the 2017 breeding […]
January 8, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 January 6, 2018 “She’s a peeker,” I whispered over the radio to let Bart Paxton know that the […]
January 5, 2018
On April 23, 2010 Dr Bryan Watts and Libby Mojica banded 3 nestling bald eagles in their nest along the Colonial Parkway in Williamsburg, VA. One […]
January 3, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 January 3, 2018 On 22 December as the nation was gearing down for the festive Christmas holiday, the […]
November 7, 2017
The last satellite signal from the transmitter that bald eagle Grace is wearing was at 6:43am on October 17 near the mouth of the Poropotank River […]
November 2, 2017
In May 2016 biologists with the Center for Conservation Biology (CCB) banded 12 nestling Bald Eagles in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Va with purple bands and […]
October 30, 2017
Well, it is not clear at this date as to the status of the satellite transmitter that Grace is wearing. There was no new data from […]