Press Release

March 20, 2011
Bald Eagle on nest in Northampton County (copy)

Eastern Shore Bald Eagle Survey reaches new milestones

Despite high winds during the month of February, the bald eagle breeding population on the Eastern Shore of Virginia is already setting new records. The Center […]
August 14, 2009
Map of migration route used by Hope from Southampton Island in upper Hudson Bay to near the Virgin Islands, 2009

Flight of Hope

(Williamsburg, VA)—Hope, a whimbrel carrying a satellite transmitter, is far out to sea flying south over the Atlantic toward her wintering grounds in South America. The […]
June 2, 2008
Winnie the Whimbrel

Migrant whimbrel tracked on 5,000 kilometer, transcontinental flight

(Williamsburg, VA)— The Center for Conservation Biology at the College of William and Mary and The Nature Conservancy in Virginia have successfully used a state of […]