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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  • Listening with Merlin: How Sound ID Works and What It Can (and Can’t) Do

    Listening with Merlin: How Sound ID Works and What It Can (and Can’t) Do

    Presented by Dr. Grant Van Horn
    Date: February 19, 2026
    Time and Location: February 19 @ 6pm online via Zoom

    Merlin Sound ID has made it possible for anyone to identify birds by sound, but how does it actually work, and how should birders use it? In this talk, I’ll give an accessible overview of how Merlin Sound ID listens to audio and turns it into species suggestions. I’ll describe the kinds of recordings that…

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EBRPD District Plan Survey Call to Action

The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) is preparing a new District Plan and is seeking public comment from Alameda and Contra Costa residents. Make your voices heard and stand up for birds and their habitat by completing the online survey by July 31, 2025.  The District Plan will be a high-level document,summarizing and mapping…
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SF Christmas Bird Count 2026

On a rainy December 26th, in the year 1915, three hardy birders conducted the very first Christmas Bird Count in San Francisco. By the end of the day, they tallied 35 species and 2,472 birds. The five most common species were: American Coot, White-crowned Sparrows, Mallards, California Quail and Seaside Sparrows. Fast forward 110 years…
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GGAS field trip to Middle Harbor Shoreline Park / Photo by Ilana DeBare

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