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Bryan Watts' newsletters are always fascinating!
The one about Dr. Byrd "Still Flying At 90" is one that I particularly enjoyed
because Captain Fuzzzo who pilots the plane was a good friend of my brother.
Because of that connection, whenever they were going to fly over the
Rappahannock, Fuzzzo (yes, with 3 zs) would email me, telling me the
approximate time they would be over "my nest" and I would run out into the
field and he would waggle his wings with the plane just over the treetops! This
pair originally had its nest on my property but after 2 years, they built a
nest about 500 yards from my house in my neighbor's yard on Robinson's Creek
just upriver from Urbanna. It is no longer an active nest, but I really
enjoyed monitoring the pair for about 6 years)
Maggie Gerdts
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Farewell to Hope
Hope, the whimbrel that was tracked with a satellite transmitter and became a
living representation of the challenges faced by migratory shorebirds
throughout the annual cycle, is believed to have been one of the many
casualties of Hurricane Maria. Local ecologist Lisa Yntema photographed Hope on
26 August 2017 shortly after arrival on her winter territory...
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Virginia peregrines set record high in 2018
With 32 occupied territories, Virginia supported the largest breeding
population of peregrine falcons ever known to occupy the state during the 2018
season (download the 2018 report). Since the reintroduction of captive-reared
birds in the late 1970s and the first successful breeding in 1982, the
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Seasonal variation in whimbrel mortality
An alarming percentage of the world’s shorebird species are declining. Whimbrel
populations using the Western Atlantic Flyway have experienced steep declines
of around 4% per year since at least the mid-1990s. Moving the balance sheet of
births and deaths from the red column to the black...
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Still flying at 90
Mitchell Byrd turned 90 in August of 2018, but in early March of 2019 he toed
the flight line and was back in the survey plane to begin his 43rd season of
eagle work in the lower Chesapeake Bay. Somewhere along the way he has lost the
mutton chops that he wore when the survey began, but after more than 25,000
nest checks he still maintains an enthusiasm for eagles and the effort. He,
along with Bryan Watts and long-time pilot Captain...
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Beach-nesting eagles
Sometimes no matter how long you have worked with a species and no matter how
wild you let your imagination run, you just cannot anticipate what they will do
next. The Center for Conservation Biology has mapped and inspected more than
5,000 eagle nests over the past few decades but we never expected to see them
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The Secret Lives of Black Rails, and the Scientists Who Seek Them
Audubon Magazine
On a late-winter night in southern Louisiana, a small group of scientists and
college students drags paint cans full of BBs and bolts through a marsh. With
spotlights and fishing nets at the ready, they take high steps over tangles of
grass, hoping...
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Ospreys, their fate once up in the air, soar again over Chesapeake
Bay Journal
Ospreys are a familiar sight on the edges of the Chesapeake Bay and in the
tidal reaches of its tributaries, as abundant as sailboats on a sunny weekend
afternoon in spring. Drawn by warming weather, the promise of plentiful food
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Editorial: Eagles are a good comeback story; here's why
The Roanoke Times
The talk among folks in central Botetourt County lately has been about the
eating habits of one of their neighbors. That happens when you live out in the
country and your neighbor decides to chow down on fresh venison in the front
yard where...
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Liberty and Justice no more? Bald eagle couple split on Valentine’s as new mate
emerges
The News Tribune
What happened to true love? After 14 years nesting together in Washington,
D.C., bald eagle lovers Liberty and Justice appear to be no more, WTOP
reported. Liberty may have found a new boo this Valentine’s Day — her first in
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