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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 8, 2023
By: Bryan Watts7/6/2023 There was a time when The Center was new and Marian was there. Marian was there when The Center was just an idea, […]
July 8, 2023
By: Bryan Watts7/4/2023 Shenandoah National Park has championed the reintroduction of peregrine falcons back into their historic breeding range in the mountains of Virginia. Since 1989, […]
July 8, 2023
By: Bryan Watts7/5/2023 Over the past few years, I have received questions from homeowners, watermen and keen observers around the lower Chesapeake Bay about osprey. Waterfront […]
July 8, 2023
By: Bryan Watts6/28/2023 In recent months CCB biologists have published several papers in academic journals. These articles report on recent findings and are intended to spread […]
June 1, 2023
By: Chance Hines5/30/2023 Center for Conservation Biology researchers have a long history of trudging through coastal marshes studying a variety of bird taxa including shorebirds, wading […]
March 29, 2023
By: Chance Hines3/29/23 For the sparrows of the marsh, the worst of winter has passed. In Virginia, the 2022-2023 winter was relatively warm, but temperatures did […]