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Birds and Berries
By Chris Carmichael This is the time of year when images of birds feeding on red berries abound: Think of all those holiday cards featuring
Valle Vista: Birding Hotspot
By Maureen Lahiff This area—accessible with an EBMUD recreation permit—is sometimes known as Upper San Leandro Reservoir, but the reservoir is just part of the
Bird-Safe Buildings advance in Berkeley, Emeryville
By Ilana DeBare The cities of Berkeley and Emeryville took major steps last month towards enacting Bird-Safe Building laws. Noreen Weeden, Director of Volunteers at
Our 2019 Audubon heroes
By Ilana DeBare It wasn’t hard deciding on the 2019 winners of our annual conservation and environmental education awards. What was hard was was figuring
The Westernmost WC in Europe: Birding Iceland
By Bob Carloni My wife Linda and I had wanted to visit Iceland for many years, even before we started birding. Our opportunity came in
Vaux’s Swift monitoring hits its tenth year
By Michael Helm This fall, for the 10th consecutive year, Golden Gate Bird Alliance members monitored the number of migrating Vaux’s Swifts spending the night
Helping birds from the first base line
By Mary Malec When people sign up to volunteer with Golden Gate Bird Alliance, they often imagine working at shoreline marshes or birdsong-filled hillsides. Not
Welcoming refugees through birding
By Laura Cremin Lake Merritt, the heart of Oakland, has long beckoned people to peel away from the pulses of the city and just watch
Bay Area birds and climate change
Chickadees. Juncos. Woodpeckers….These familiar backyard Bay Area birds are all at risk from climate change, according to a new report by National Audubon.
Warbler wonderland in May 2020
Magee Marsh in Northern Ohio is one of the premier birding spots in North America. Our May 2020 guided trip there will spot nearly 200 species.
Egrets in the Monterey pines, 2019
Breathtaking sight as we approach where the colony once was and spot six Great Egrets in several pines a few yards from the old Monterey pine tree. Hardly drawing attention to themselves, they have built their new nests.
Birding in Baja: two sorts of tails
When I first heard about the Golden Gate Bird Alliance trip to Southern Baja, I was tempted by the variety it offered—not only in the different sorts of habitat we’d be visiting there, but in the variety of bird species that would be present, and the opportunity to see California Gray Whales at their breeding grounds. Birds and whales—what could be better?