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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  • A Different Way to Learn Bird Song

    A Different Way to Learn Bird Song

    Presented by Sue Riffe
    Date: October 1, 2026
    Time and Location: Doors at 6:15pm, Talk at 7pm at the David Brower Center (2150 Allston Way, Berkeley) and online via Zoom

    The GGBA Travel Program is excited to announce our next Travel Program Speaker Series talk featuring Sue Riffe, owner and lead guide of Colorado-based “She Flew Birding Tours”. GGBA participants in Sue’s previous tours for the GGBA Travel Program have uniformly marveled at her birding-by-ear skills.  Sue launched her bird tour business after more than 20 years as a band director and…

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How to Create a Bird-Safe Backyard

by Matthew Hildebrandt As spring rolls in, bird migration ramps up, and birds begin flying north through one of the most important migration corridors, the Pacific Flyway. Each spring and fall, roughly 1 billion birds travel through this route, passing through our homes and making the greater San Francisco Bay Area an important stop along…
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GGAS field trip to Middle Harbor Shoreline Park / Photo by Ilana DeBare

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