2025 Birdathon is Here!

With incredible one-of-a-kind birding adventure tours, friends and family fundraising opportunities, the annual Bay Birding Challenge (for the competitive birder in you), an online auction, and an in-person Birdathon celebration event to close out the season, you don’t want to miss the best way to give back to birds

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  • Lend an ear: Studying Hearing in Songbirds

    Lend an ear: Studying Hearing in Songbirds

    Presented by Trina Chou
    Date: February 20, 2025
    Time and Location: 6pm online via Zoom

    Songbirds communicate with one another for many reasons – to find and attract a mate, to defend their territory, or even to band together to ward off a predator. However, levels of human-generated noise, also known as anthropogenic noise, and encroachment into bird habitats continue to rise year after year. Birds are thus faced with…

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News

Reserve Tesla Park

In 2021, Golden Gate Bird Alliance and its allies successfully advocated to save the Alameda-Tesla property (Tesla Park) from off-road vehicle use. Now we need your help to convince the California State Parks Department to classify Tesla Park as a Reserve. Classifying the 3,100 acre site as a Reserve will ensure the parks department prioritizes…
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From our Blog

Rocky Mountain BirdinG

By Daryl Goldman The fabulous Rocky Mountain Birding Package will open the GGBA’s 2025 Birdathon fundraising event.  Bidding on this amazing trip will run from February 14 to February 25, at www.32auctions.com/GGBA2025kickoff  The trip is set for June 20 to June 28 2025, so we’d like to give you time to make your plans now. …
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Field Trips

GGAS field trip to Middle Harbor Shoreline Park / Photo by Ilana DeBare

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Join one of the 150+ free bird walks we offer each year! Learn about Bay Area birds and explore the shorelines, meadows, and woods they need to survive. Beginners welcome: See our calendar of upcoming Field Trips. Or join an expert-led birding trip to other regions and continents through our Travel with GGBA program.

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