July 12, 2021
By: Bryan Watts7/1/2021 For centuries bird people sat along the shoreline during the fall and watched as birds left the coast, flying directly out to the […]
June 23, 2021
By Bryan Watts6/22/2021 It is that time of year when the days come on fast. But by the time the sun gathers its strength I have […]
April 5, 2021
By: Bryan Watts4/5/21 The number of whimbrels staging along the Delmarva Peninsula during spring migration continues to decline. Back in 1994, Bryan Watts and Barry Truitt […]
April 4, 2021
By: Bryan Watts4/2/2021 The eastern black rail continues its decline along the Atlantic Coast. Birds are being systematically excluded from their traditional salt marshes by advancing […]
March 31, 2021
By: Bryan Watts3/31/2021 Around 24 April, 2008 four peregrine eggs were hatched on the Benjamin Harrison Bridge near Hopewell, Virginia. The young included three females and […]
March 30, 2021
By: Bryan Watts3/30/2021 PEREGRINE VS RED KNOT As part of the peregrine falcon restoration program we introduced peregrines from Virginia north to New Jersey within the […]
March 23, 2021
By Bryan Watts3/23/2021 We all knew it would happen. That one morning we would wake up as old men – time having passed over us like […]
January 11, 2021
By: Bryan Watts1/11/2021 It was a beautiful fall day with glassy water as Alex Wilke (Coastal Scientist, The Nature Conservancy), Laura Chamberlin (Assistant Director for North […]
January 11, 2021
By: Bryan Watts1/8/2021 On November 9, 2020 the eastern black rail was formally listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act by the Department of Interior […]
January 6, 2021
By: Bryan Watts1/6/2021 The Center for Conservation Biology joined with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission to estimate the number of cormorants and other seabirds that […]
January 5, 2021
By: Bryan Watts1/5/21 Conservation is an ethic – the purposeful consideration of the welfare of other species in our daily decisions and actions, a life path […]
January 4, 2021
By Bryan Watts1/4/2021 On 22 November 2020, Edward S. “Ned” Brinkley died unexpectedly on a mountainside in southern Ecuador in search of the endangered Jocotoco antpitta […]
October 6, 2020
By Bryan Watts10/06/2020 In only 16 years from 2001 to 2017, the Piney Grove Preserve, managed by The Nature Conservancy in Sussex County, has shifted from […]
October 6, 2020
By Bryan Watts10/05/2020 Despite the difficulties of working the breeding sites during the global pandemic, CCB was able to complete the 2020 spring field season and […]
September 30, 2020
By Bryan Watts9/30/2020 In late 2019, CCB worked with William & Mary’s Swem Library to upload 220 technical reports to Scholarworks in an effort to make […]
September 14, 2020
By: Bryan Watts9/14/2020 Field notes are like an artist study. Although they may lead to a published manuscript or report, they provide a more complete view […]
September 3, 2020
By Bryan Watts9/3/2020 Communal roosts used at night and during high-tide periods are essential resources for many shorebird species during the winter and migratory periods. Despite […]
July 7, 2020
By Bryan Watts7/7/2020 Whimbrels are large, highly migratory Holarctic waders with low reproductive potential and delayed recruitment that require high juvenile and adult survival to sustain […]
July 6, 2020
By: Bryan Watts7/6/2020 Many of us feel the constant gravitational pull of wild places or wild things. Each of us have reasons that are our own. […]
July 6, 2020
By: Bryan Watts7/6/2020 As with the other sea eagles, bald eagles are tree nesters. Here in the Chesapeake Bay region eagles nest in loblolly pines on […]
July 6, 2020
By: Chance Hines7/6/2020 The 2020 Virginia red-cockaded woodpecker breeding season has come to a close with a record high number of young produced. Production of young […]
June 26, 2020
By: Bryan Watts6/26/2020 Upper Chippokes Creek is where bald eagles first recolonized the James River after the peak of the DDT era. On 19 January 1979, […]
April 4, 2020
By: Bryan Watts4/3/2020 There are few things in life more thrilling than solving a good mystery or finding the answers to long held questions. For the […]
April 3, 2020
By: Laura Duval3/24/2020 As many of you read this, migrant birds, including our beloved nightjars, are on a taxing journey from their wintering grounds as far […]