January 15, 2026
By: Bryan Watts1/8/26 Like other falcons, peregrines have strikingly beautiful eggs. Their eggs have splotches of color laid on a colored background. In the case of […]
July 2, 2025
By: Bryan Watts6/24/25 The loss of adult peregrines on the outer coast of Virginia was very high for the second consecutive year, increasing concerns about the […]
July 18, 2024
By Bryan Watts 7/18/23 Between 2023 and 2024, Virginia peregrine falcons experienced a spike in adult turnover. The mean replacement rate (percentage of identified individuals lost) […]
January 12, 2024
By: Bryan Watts1/4/2024 The Virginia breeding population of peregrine falcons continued its slow advance in 2023. The known population reached a record 35 breeding pairs. The […]
July 8, 2023
By: Bryan Watts7/4/2023 Shenandoah National Park has championed the reintroduction of peregrine falcons back into their historic breeding range in the mountains of Virginia. Since 1989, […]
March 29, 2023
By: Bryan Watts3/27/23 Following the complete extirpation of peregrine falcons in eastern North America during the DDT era, the eastern peregrine recovery team made the bold […]
January 11, 2023
By: Bryan Watts1/10/23 The Virginia breeding population of peregrine falcons continued its climb in 2022 with a modern record of 34 known breeding pairs. The record […]
July 11, 2022
By: Bryan Watts7/10/22 The pair of peregrine falcons that has been inhabiting in a nest box on the roof of the Armada Hoffler Building in the […]
July 11, 2022
By: Bryan Watts7/10/22 The high demand for rock and other resources to supply our growing infrastructure needs along with modern quarry techniques and machinery is creating […]
January 12, 2022
By Bryan Watts1/12/2022 When Alan Williams and I repelled down a quarry wall in Ashburn, Virginia to band a brood of peregrines, neither of us had […]
October 4, 2021
By Bryan Watts10/4/2021 The 2021 breeding season was mixed for peregrine falcons in Virginia. The population produced 68 young falcons. This is the highest number of […]
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 […]