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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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  • Birds of a Feather Lurk Together: The Spooky Parallels Between Spiders and Birds

    Birds of a Feather Lurk Together: The Spooky Parallels Between Spiders and Birds

    Presented by Ashley Adams
    Date: October 22, 2026
    Time and Location: 7pm online via Zoom

    Birds of a Feather Lurk Together: The Spooky Parallels Between Spiders and Birds Feathered structures, complex social lives, and soaring flight aren’t just for the birds — spiders have evolved their own unique takes on all of them. While birds and spiders might seem worlds apart, their evolutionary strategies tell a remarkably similar story of…

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No on prop 45

In November, Californians will make an important decision: Continue to protect birds, other wildlife and human communities through the state’s most important environmental law OR… strip the law of its power and let corporate polluters off the hook. Prop 45 is a major threat to California birds and ecosystems
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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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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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