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 […]
April 2, 2020
By Bryan Watts4/2/2020 In late February of this year, CCB dispatched a team of five biologists including Marie Pitts, Laura Duval, Chance Hines, Bart Paxton and […]
April 2, 2020
By Bryan Watts4/1/2020 For the fifth time in as many years, CCB biologists have traveled to Panama to train local biologists and volunteers on shorebird field […]
April 1, 2020
By Bryan Watts 3/31/2020 One of many things that the Covid-19 pandemic will be remembered for is the introduction of the term “social distancing” to the […]
January 27, 2020
By Bryan Watts1/26/2020 Chance Hines and I arrived in cluster 13 of Piney Grove Preserve more than an hour before sunset. We knew the roost cavity […]
January 23, 2020
By Bryan Watts 1/23/2020 The Center for Conservation Biology has joined forces with the North Carolina Wildlife Commission to estimate the number of cormorants that spend […]
January 23, 2020
By Bryan Watts 1/22/2020 Since late August 2019 when the first large, black globs of crude oil began washing ashore along the coast of Brazil, the […]
January 21, 2020
By Bryan Watts 1/21/2020 By any standard 2019 was a good year for peregrine falcons in Virginia. The breeding season was the most productive in the […]
September 30, 2019
By Bryan Watts 9/30/19 Many North American residents flee their homes during the cold winter months to spend time in Aruba. Due to its dry climate […]
September 30, 2019
By Bryan Watts 9/30/19 Few experiences take us back to the Halloweens of childhood like climbing up into a silo or hayloft at night and hearing […]