September 22, 2026
News Advisory FROM: The Center for Conservation Biology, William & Mary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 18 September 2026 MEDIA CONTACTS: Dr. Bryan D. Watts, Director The Center […]
September 14, 2026
News Advisory FROM: The Center for Conservation Biology, William & Mary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 14 September 2026 MEDIA CONTACTS: Dr. Bryan D. Watts, Director The […]
July 14, 2026
By: Bryan Watts 7/9/2026 In the spring of 2016 while banding a brood of peregrines on the James River Bridge, I picked up a pigeon […]
July 14, 2026
By: Bryan Watts 7/9/2026 In recent years we have published papers on the historic decline of osprey breeding performance in Mobjack Bay (a subestuary of […]
July 14, 2026
By: Chance Hines 7/8/2026 Every autumn at about this time of year, a trickle of whimbrel begin descending into marshes and mudflats on the Eastern […]
July 14, 2026
By: Bryan Watts 7/7/2026 The current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is the largest panzootic in recorded history. The outbreak has impacted millions […]
July 14, 2026
By: Bryan Watts 7/1/2026 In the Chesapeake, the tides, the seasons and the rhythms of the Bay inspire so much of our daily existence. There […]
April 17, 2026
By: Chance Hines 4/8/2026 As the yellow dust of spring replaces the icy winter mornings, CCB begins the annual spring red-cockaded woodpecker census. The census is […]
April 17, 2026
By: Chance Hines 4/8/2026 Over the past couple years, CCB staff have captured 37 black-throated green warblers at the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. […]
April 17, 2026
By: Bryan Watts 4/1/2026 It is that time of year again when great egrets are returning to their nesting colonies, beginning ritualized courtship displays, collecting sticks, […]
April 16, 2026
By: Bryan Watts 4/8/2026 The Center for Conservation Biology mourns the passing of our friend, teacher, scholar, conservation biologist, inspiration and role model Dr. Mitchell Agee […]
January 15, 2026
By: Bryan Watts1/9/26 In a study of diet and provisioning of broods by bald eagles in the lower Chesapeake Bay in the early 2000s, Catherine Markham […]
January 15, 2026
By: Bryan Watts1/8/26 Like other falcons, peregrines have strikingly beautiful eggs. Their eggs have splotches of color laid on a colored background. In the case of […]
January 15, 2026
By: Chance Hines1/7/26 Black rails are not birds you see, they are birds you hear… if you are lucky. Despite more and more people turning onto birdwatching, fewer and fewer get […]
January 15, 2026
By: Bryan Watts1/6/26 Over the radio, “November 54452 departing 21 Accomack” letting pilots in the area know that we were taking off to the south from […]
January 15, 2026
By: Bryan Watts1/5/26 Every day the pace of life seems to accelerate, and it feels like the world is coming to a boil. Social media feeds […]
October 8, 2025
By: Bryan Watts10/1/25 In June of 1993, Gary Costanza was working with black ducks on the Bay islands when Mitchell Byrd and Bryan Watts hitched a […]
October 8, 2025
By: Chance Hines10/1/25 The Center for Conservation Biology (CCB) has documented a remarkable and steady recovery of the red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW) at Piney Grove Preserve in […]
October 8, 2025
By: Bryan Watts10/2/25 The royal tern is the most abundant large tern throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Seen loafing on pilings and docks throughout the Chesapeake Bay […]
October 8, 2025
By: Chance Hines9/30/25 Whimbrels hold a special place in CCB’s history. As one of the larger migratory shorebirds, they’ve long been a focus of tracking projects […]
October 1, 2025
News Advisory FROM: The Center for Conservation Biology, William & Mary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 29 September, 2025 MEDIA CONTACTS: Dr. Bryan D. Watts, Director Center for […]
July 2, 2025
By: Bryan Watts6/24/25 In recent months CCB biologists have published several papers in academic journals. These articles report on recent findings and are intended to spread […]
July 2, 2025
By: Chance Hines6/26/25 Once widespread across the southeastern U.S., red-cockaded woodpeckers (RCWs) have seen steep declines over the past century due to habitat loss, degradation, and […]
July 2, 2025
By: Chance Hines6/25/25 For the past two springs, as mornings warm and swamps come alive, CCB has scoured southeastern Virginia in search of Wayne’s warbler, the […]