April 3, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 April 3, 2018 2017 was a good year for red-cockaded woodpeckers in Virginia. The combined spring, breeding, and […]
April 2, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 April 2, 2018 Nonbreeding bald eagles are highly social and form communal roosts around profitable foraging sites. We […]
March 30, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 March 30, 2018 Fletcher Smith and I had been working birds on the Acadian Peninsula for ten days. […]
January 8, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 January 8, 2018 Unlike many familiar bird species, male and female bald eagles have identical plumage making them […]
January 8, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 January 7, 2018 Virginia supported a known population of 29 pairs of peregrine falcons during the 2017 breeding […]
January 8, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 January 6, 2018 “She’s a peeker,” I whispered over the radio to let Bart Paxton know that the […]
January 3, 2018
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 January 3, 2018 On 22 December as the nation was gearing down for the festive Christmas holiday, the […]
October 6, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 October 6, 2017 The grumblings have gotten louder and louder over the past three years and have increasingly […]
October 5, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 October 5, 2017 There was a time during the late 1800s through the mid-1900s when bird eggs were […]
October 4, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 October 4, 2017 The eastern black rail is listed as endangered in six states and is currently under […]
October 3, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 October 3, 2017 One half hour before dawn we walked the trail in darkness with no conversation, placed […]
September 13, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 September 13, 2017 Irma, the storm that began as a puff of wind off the western coast of […]
September 12, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 September 12, 2017 We have spent years standing on Box Tree Dock listening for their rallying calls through […]
July 13, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 July 13, 2017 The National Park Service (NPS) is the keeper of our most precious crowned jewels. It […]
July 12, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 July 12, 2017 HHE is a red knot with the code “HHE” stamped in black letters on a […]
July 11, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 July 11, 2017 One of the enduring questions in population ecology is: what determines the size of a […]
July 10, 2017
By Bryan Watts | bdwatt@wm.edu | (757) 221-2247 July 10, 2017 Age to first breeding is a relatively consistent trait across heron species and typically coincides […]
July 5, 2017
Cliff swallows are a wonder to see up close. Adults are richly colored in a combination of deep chestnut, cream, blue, and salmon that is reminiscent […]
June 23, 2017
Conservation partners are celebrating the first successful breeding of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker within the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Two young woodpeckers were banded on […]
April 7, 2017
The Steppe Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus alboaxillaris) is one of the least studied forms of migratory shorebirds on earth. The form was first described in 1921, and […]
April 6, 2017
José Sarasola has reported another large raptor kill in the La Pampa Province of Argentina. José is the director of El Centro para el Estudio y Conservacion […]
April 5, 2017
One day after our arrival in Panama City, we stood on the shoreline looking in awe over the mudflats that stretch out into the blue haze […]