• PB&J Birders event for kids – May 4

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    Join us on Sunday morning May 4th from 10 a..m. until noon for a PB&J Birders family bird walk at Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park!

    This easy walk  will bring little birders and their parents/guardians along the lake looking for ducks, Great Blue Herons, and more! The walk is on mostly level ground along a developed and paved pathway. Most of the walk is wheelchair accessible.

    Meet: In parking lot behind Boathouse, 50 Stow Lake Dr E, San Francisco, CA 94118

    Bring:  Snacks, water, layers of clothes, snacks and binoculars or scopes if you have them. We will also have quality binoculars and field guides available, along with crayons and coloring projects.
    This event is free and open to families with kids of all ages.
    P.S. Did you know there is now a nest cam monitoring the Great Blue Heron nest at Stow Lake?
    Watch the heron family on your computer, then come join us on our Stow Lake walk! Nest cam at
    http://www.sfnature.org/LiveEx/live.html – thanks to S.F. Nature Education for setting up the cam!

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  • Sign up for a Birdathon trip!

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    April is more than half over, but we still have some openings on great Birdathon trips!  You’re invited to join us on:

    Las Gallinas Ponds in Marin (Sunday morning April 20)

    Altamont Pass – Wind Power & Birds (Saturday April 26)

    San Francisco & the Peninsula (Saturday April 26)

    Visit our Birdathon Trips web page for details and registration. Then create your personal fundraising page. It’s like a walkathon where you solicit donations from friends — only instead of just walking you get to enjoy the beauty of birds!

    Everyone who raises $100 or more gets a free Birdathon t-shirt with our Burrowing Owl logo.

    There are awards for most birds sighted in six or 24 hours, best bird, and for top fundraisers. Mark your calendar for the Birdathon Awards Celebration on Sunday May 18

    Out of town during April? You can still be part of the fun by sponsoring a Birdathon participant!

    And you can buy a Birdathon t-shirt weigh our Burrowing owl logo even if you don’t go on a trip. Click here to order one directly from us for $20 plus postage. Or if you’d prefer an organic cotton version, you can order one for $27 from Spreadshirt. 

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  • GGBA at the BioBlitz

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    Golden Gate Bird Alliance participated in the Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz on Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March, 29, 2014.

    A BioBlitz is a 24-hour inventory of as many species of plants, animals, fungi, and other organisms as can be found within a defined area, and the Golden Gate National Parks is blessed with an incredible diversity of species.

    Along with other local conservation groups, GGBA members led volunteers in an inventory of birds and other species during the 24-hour window. Final numbers from the count are currently being tabulated by scientists.

    Folding origami Passenger Pigeons / Photo by Noreen WeedenFolding origami Passenger Pigeons / Photo by Noreen Weeden GGBA educators Anthony DeCicco and Marissa Ortega-Welch / Photo by Noreen WeedenGGBA educators Anthony DeCicco and Marissa Ortega-Welch / Photo by Noreen Weeden Some of the 1,700 young visitors / Photo by Noreen WeedenSome of the 1,700 young visitors / Photo by Noreen Weeden

    We also led a hands-on educational project in the BioBlitz Exhibition Hall — folding an origami Passenger Pigeon to recognize the 100-year anniversary of this species’ passing, while learning about ways to help our locally threatened and endangered bird species.  

    Some 1,700 children from schools participated on Friday, while hundreds of individuals and families attended on Saturday.  That’s a lot of origami pigeons!

    A huge thank-you to BioBlitz sponsors National Park Service, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, National Geographic, and Presidio Trust; to Andrew Stern from the Lost Bird Project, which created the origami program; and to Golden Gate Bird Alliance volunteers Kent Anderson, Jeannette Nichols, Cameron Burns, and Eddie Bartley.  

    Origami Passenger Pigeon / Photo by Noreen WeedenOrigami Passenger Pigeon / Photo by Noreen Weeden…
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    Summer 2014 Gull is available

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    The new edition of The Gull newsletter for Summer 2014 is now available online. Read it to learn how the future of many bird species in San Francisco depends upon a strong Natural Areas Program.

    Also get the scoop on the outcome of Birdathon 2014, our new Executive Director Cindy Margulis, and Black-crowned Night-Herons. And of course it includes the calendar for our Speaker Series in July, August and September!

    Click here to read it:  Gull_Summer2014

    Note: Because this is a large file, it may take a minute or two to download. Be patient.   🙂

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    Eagle Scouts restore habitat at Pier 94

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    Thanks to Eagle Scout Troop 888 and family members who helped us restore bird habitat at Pier 94 in San Francisco on March 8!  The day was thoughtfully planned and organized by Coletrain Phillips, one of the Eagle Scouts.

    The Scouts were energetic, friendly and super productive.  The day included removing non-native invasive weeds, planting 300 native plants, watering the newly planted plants, painting over graffiti on the k-rails and back of signs.

    The group took a bird walk where they observed American Avocets, Whimbrel, and Snowy Egret and other birds feeding along the Bay. After the break the Troop prepared an area for future broadcast seeding by raking the area.  This was a huge amount of work accomplished in a single day.

    Want to get involved? Our next habitat restoration work day at Pier 94 is on Saturday April 5 from 9 a.m. until noon. Info on the volunteer page of our web site.…

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