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 14, 2023
For release: July 14, 2023 Williamsburg, VA – In 2023, The Center for Conservation Biology has documented the highest rate of osprey nest failure ever recorded […]
June 30, 2016
(Williamsburg, VA)—The Center for Conservation Biology at the College of William and Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University has compiled 2016 survey results for the Virginia bald […]
December 10, 2014
In a press conference held on December 9th, 2014, Service Director Dan Ashe announced the decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate the […]
May 6, 2013
FROM: Center for Conservation Biology, College of William and Mary – Virginia Commonwealth University FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 04 April, 2013 MEDIA CONTACTS: Dr. Bryan D. Watts, […]
December 6, 2012
(Williamsburg, VA)—Fletcher Smith, a biologist with The Center for Conservation Biology traveled 1,500 miles to St. Croix in November to catch up with a whimbrel named […]
August 13, 2012
(Williamsburg, VA)—Scientists at the Center for Conservation Biology (CCB) have tracked 3 whimbrels off the east coast of Canada to the northern shore of South America […]
June 26, 2012
(Williamsburg, VA) Nightjars are an enigmatic group of bird species that includes the Common Nighthawk, Whip-poor-will, Chuck-will’s-widow, Common Poorwill and others that are active only at […]
April 5, 2012
(Williamsburg, VA)—Hope, a whimbrel carrying a satellite transmitter, has returned to the Eastern Shore of Virginia after spending the winter on St. Croix in the U.S. […]
February 22, 2012
Williamsburg, VA – The Center for Conservation Biology has launched Project OspreyWatch, a project created to engage a global community to collect data on breeding osprey. […]
September 14, 2011
(Williamsburg, VA)—Scientists at the Center for Conservation Biology have determined that a second whimbrel they had been tracking as part of a long-term migration study has […]
September 12, 2011
(Williamsburg, VA)—Scientists at the Center for Conservation Biology learned today that a whimbrel that they had been tracking via satellite for 2 years as part of […]
September 7, 2011
(Williamsburg, VA)—Bald eagle nests along the historic James River were hit hard by Hurricane Irene. Of 154 nests examined during an aerial survey on 3 September, […]
September 5, 2011
(Williamsburg, VA)—The Center for Conservation Biology at the College of William and Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University has compiled 2011 survey results for the Virginia bald […]
September 5, 2011
(Williamsburg, VA)—The Center for Conservation Biology at the College of William and Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University has compiled 2011 survey results for the Virginia bald […]
August 25, 2011
(Williamsburg, VA)—Scientists have tracked a migrating shorebird into Hurricane Irene. The shorebird, a whimbrel migrating from Canada to South America left Southampton Island in upper Hudson […]
June 20, 2011
(Williamsburg, VA)—Hope, a whimbrel being tracked via satellite by scientists has arrived on her breeding grounds along the MacKenzie River in Canada. She left the Eastern […]
April 21, 2011
(Williamsburg, VA) – On 18 April, 2011 while flying eagle productivity surveys along the James River, Bryan Watts and Mitchell Byrd for the Center for Conservation […]
April 15, 2011
(Williamsburg, VA)—The odyssey of Hope, a whimbrel carrying a satellite transmitter continues to amaze scientists. Hope was originally captured on 19 May, 2009 on the Delmarva […]
March 20, 2011
Despite high winds during the month of February, the bald eagle breeding population on the Eastern Shore of Virginia is already setting new records. The Center […]
August 14, 2009
(Williamsburg, VA)—Hope, a whimbrel carrying a satellite transmitter, is far out to sea flying south over the Atlantic toward her wintering grounds in South America. The […]
June 2, 2008
(Williamsburg, VA)— The Center for Conservation Biology at the College of William and Mary and The Nature Conservancy in Virginia have successfully used a state of […]