September 22, 2026
News Advisory FROM: The Center for Conservation Biology, William & Mary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 18 September 2026 MEDIA CONTACTS: Dr. Bryan D. Watts, Director The Center […]
September 14, 2026
News Advisory FROM: The Center for Conservation Biology, William & Mary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 14 September 2026 MEDIA CONTACTS: Dr. Bryan D. Watts, Director The […]
July 14, 2026
By: Bryan Watts 7/9/2026 In recent years we have published papers on the historic decline of osprey breeding performance in Mobjack Bay (a subestuary of […]
January 15, 2026
By: Bryan Watts1/9/26 In a study of diet and provisioning of broods by bald eagles in the lower Chesapeake Bay in the early 2000s, Catherine Markham […]
June 16, 2025
News Advisory FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 16 June 2025 MEDIA CONTACTS: Dr. Bryan D. Watts, Director Center for Conservation Biology William & Mary bdwatt@wm.edu (757) 221-2247 BRIEF (Williamsburg, VA) — […]
July 11, 2022
By: Bryan Watts7/10/22 Survival of the majority of the endangered species in the United States will ultimately depend on our ability to manage habitats on private […]
July 7, 2022
By: Bryan Watts7/7/2022 It is impossible to think about osprey in the upper Chesapeake Bay, particularly around the area of the Choptank River and Eastern Bay, […]
July 1, 2022
By: Bryan Watts6/29/22 We turn south onto Occupacia, one of the most productive creeks along the Rappahannock. Ducks rise up in waves ahead of us leaving […]
October 13, 2010
Azalea has spent the past couple weeks re-exploring parts of Northumberland County, VA with which she became familiar last fall. She has been concentrating on the […]
July 29, 2010
When we last left Camellia, he was on the Northern Peninsula of Virginia on the Corrotoman River west of Lancaster, VA at 7:00pm July 25. He […]
July 19, 2010
Camellia continues his journey by flying further north and east into territory explored last year by his big sister, Azalea. Camellia left the Wise Point area […]
May 7, 2010
Photo above- left to right NE (youngest), NC (oldest- Camellia), ND (middle) – waiting to be returned to their nest – Photo Reese F Lukei Jr […]
April 13, 2010
Dr. Bryan Watts addresses the question about the gender of the eaglets that this pair of bald eagles has produced at Norfolk Botanical Garden: A question was recently […]
December 21, 2009
As of Dec 19, there are three bald eagles fitted with satellite transmitters in southeast Virginia in the area known as Hampton Roads. On this map […]
October 4, 2009
So, just where are the bald eagles that have been fitted with satellite transmitters by The Center for Conservation Biology? In addition to Azalea from the […]