By: Bryan Watts7/2/2021 Bunker or Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) have supported the largest commercial fishery by weight along the Atlantic Coast for more than a century.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]