February 6, 2025
By: Bryan Watts1/17/2025 For over twenty years (1970-1990) Mitchell Byrd monitored the osprey breeding population in coastal Virginia. The monitoring effort was a partnership between William […]
February 5, 2025
By: Chance Hines1/15/2025 It is not well-known how common red-cockaded woodpeckers were in Virginia prior to the mid-20th century but they were thought to be widespread. […]
February 5, 2025
By: Bryan Watts1/24/2025 An eastern willet fitted with a transmitter on the breeding grounds in Virginia was shot within one of the famous “shooting swamps” on […]
February 5, 2025
By: Chance Hines1/15/25 The Ipswich sparrow, a denizen of Sable Island, Nova Scotia during the summer and coastal dunes along the American Atlantic Coast in the […]
February 5, 2025
By: Bryan Watts1/17/2025 Working on the front lines of conservation is like being an emergency room doctor. The long hours and relentless pace are exhausting. The […]
October 9, 2024
By: Chance Hines9/24/24 The majority of old-growth swamps of Virginia and other mid-Atlantic states have been lost to logging and development, but the remaining fragments of […]
October 9, 2024
Among the many bird species that CCB has researched in the name of conservation is the whimbrel, a large, brown shorebird known for its distinctively downcurved […]
October 9, 2024
By: Bryan Watts9/24/24 Many of us have nostalgia for the 1970s when sideburns ruled, Springsteen exploded on the music scene and you could buy a dozen […]
September 19, 2024
By: Bryan Watts 9/19/24 “If you don’t want to hear the truth, make up your own like everybody else,” is the response delivered by Eddie Wilson […]
September 11, 2024
News Advisory FROM: Center for Conservation Biology, William & Mary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 13 September 2024 MEDIA CONTACTS: Dr. Bryan D. Watts, Director Center for Conservation […]
July 19, 2024
By Bryan Watts7/17/24 Historically, the Canada goose was a migratory species throughout most of the United States arriving in November to most wintering grounds and leaving […]
July 18, 2024
By Bryan Watts7/17/24 For bald eagles along the Atlantic Coas the Chesapeake Bay is a focus, and within the Chesapeake Bay the Conowingo Dam on the […]
July 18, 2024
By Bryan Watt7/13/24 In recent months CCB biologists have published several papers in academic journals. These articles report on recent findings and are intended to spread […]
July 18, 2024
By Bryan Watts7/13/24 Like blue crabs and salt marshes, the osprey is interwoven into the fabric of the Chesapeake Bay culture. Many generations of Bay residents […]
July 18, 2024
By Bryan Watts 7/18/23 Between 2023 and 2024, Virginia peregrine falcons experienced a spike in adult turnover. The mean replacement rate (percentage of identified individuals lost) […]
April 2, 2024
By: Chance Hines 4/2/24 The Great Dismal Swamp is one of the largest intact wetland ecosystems in the eastern United States and the expansive wilderness creates a […]
March 30, 2024
By: Bryan Watts4/2/24 CCB is thrilled to announce the launch of OspreyWatch 2.0. With support from conservationists Briscoe and Kenan White and innovative programmer Jim Verhagen […]
March 30, 2024
By: Bryan Watts4/1/24 The Biology Department within William & Mary has been a center for osprey work for more than 50 years. Over that time, the […]
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 […]