March 1 — May 31
Our biggest fundraiser of the year is back, with a 2024 goal of raising $90,000 to protect Bay Area birds. Your participation supports our youth education program, habitat restoration, and conservation advocacy.
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Nest Building: Creating Lasting (Birding) Community
By • April 21, 2025Chelsea will be sharing her thoughts and perspectives on “Nest Building”. No, not bird nests per say, but rather the spaces we build to create a lasting community with our fellow birders. About Our Speaker Chelsea Connor is the co-founder of Black Birders Week, a 2024 GGBA Birding for Everyone Fellow, and an MS candidate… -
EBRPD District Plan Survey Call to Action
By Ryan Nakano • May 30, 2025The 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… -
Lights Out For Birds
By Ryan Nakano • June 3, 2025Lights Out For Birds About one billion birds migrate over the Bay Area every year as they journey from wintering grounds to breeding grounds, and back. Artificial lights from our cities and towns cause birds to collide with buildings, veer off course, and tire out, making them vulnerable to predators, starvation, and exhaustion. Most bird… -
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: connections and complexity
By • April 21, 2025In this talk, Aaron with discuss the connections that created and define the Deltafrom its formation to its ecology and, biodiversity. The talk will also explore some of theecological and social complexities the Delta embraces and faces. About Our Speaker Aaron N. K. Haiman has been a student of nature his entire life. He spent… -
Restoring the San Franciso Bay Estuary: Wetlands, Birds and More!
By • March 20, 2025The San Francisco Bay is the largest estuary on the west coast of the United States, and is home to a wide range of birds, from rails to shorebirds, waders, and ducks. Over 90% of the tidal wetlands around the estuary have been lost, but there is now large-scale local support for protecting and restoring… -
Burrowing Owls
By Ryan Nakano • November 13, 2024Burrowing Owls The Western Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) is a small, ground-dwelling species of owl found in North and South America. Native to open landscapes with low vegetation such as grasslands, prairies, and deserts, it nests in underground burrows abandoned by other animals.1 Southern populations of the Burrowing Owl are year-round residents; northern populations are… -
Lend an ear: Studying Hearing in Songbirds
By • January 17, 2025Songbirds 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… -
Reserve Tesla Park
By Ryan Nakano • November 8, 2023In 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… -
Alcatraz Island – A Climate Refuge for Seabirds
By • February 18, 2025Alcatraz Island Brandt’s Cormorants moved into San Francisco Bay in the early 1990s during a coastward population shift. Alcatraz is now one of the largest Brandt’s Cormorant breeding colonies, outperforming its ocean counterparts despite a high level of human disturbance in this urban setting. The bay hosts a large anchovy population and demersal fish nursery,… -
Our New Name
By GGBA • August 13, 2023Welcome to Golden Gate Bird Alliance! After months of deliberation and outreach, our new name was ratified by members on August 17 during an Annual Member Meeting at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. Throughout our process to find a new name, we were reminded over and over again from our members and the community-at-large…
Skaggs Island Raptors
This trip is now full. For many years, GGBA has offered driving tours on the property, but unfortunately due to COVID there has not been a GGBA tour on the property since February 2020. At this time the US Fish & Wildlife Service is granting us a very special opportunity to revisit Skaggs Island albeit…
How To Participate
Go birding and support Bay Area birds by creating your own fundraising campaign through our easy-to-use platform. Then, share your campaign with friends and family!
Form a 3-10 person team and sign up for our “Big Day” birding competition to see who can observe the most species and raise the most money on April 27th!
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Awards Celebration
Sunday, May 19 2024
The Shoreline Center (MLK Jr. Regional Shoreline, Oakland)
Join in-person to celebrate our success during this year’s Birdathon! This is your opportunity to mingle, share Birdathon stories, enjoy boutique wines and gourmet appetizers, and most importantly, honor our dedicated field trip leaders and fundraisers.
Free tickets available on April 21
Join the Host Committee
Join the Host Committee and keep this year’s celebration event free for the rest of our community! Make your tax-deductible donation to Golden Gate Bird Alliance to help cover the cost of our venue rental fee and catering costs.
Birdathon 2024 MERCH
