Center for Conservation Biology
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 […]
October 23, 2017
There is very little satellite data for Grace this week. Only 2 days, Oct 14 and 17. She is on Puritan Island at the mouth of […]
October 16, 2017
Very few satellite data points this week. Grace has flown northwest from Poquoson to the York river across from York River State Park. As of this […]
October 9, 2017
Grace spent the week on the move. She began the week at the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in Dare County, NC. She then flew west […]
October 6, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 October 6, 2017 The grumblings have gotten louder and louder over the past three years and have increasingly […]
October 5, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 October 5, 2017 There was a time during the late 1800s through the mid-1900s when bird eggs were […]
October 4, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 October 4, 2017 The eastern black rail is listed as endangered in six states and is currently under […]
October 3, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 October 3, 2017 One half hour before dawn we walked the trail in darkness with no conversation, placed […]