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Year-end Countdown: The 2018 Oakland Christmas Bird Count
Eric Schroeder For this year’s Oakland Christmas Bird Count I was allowed to sleep in. It turned out that co-organizers Bob Lewis and Dave Quady
Bird Mural in Downtown Oakland
By Pam Consear Downtown Oakland has a new mural! Actually, most of a city block full of murals, emblazoned with flying herons and egrets and
Watershed Warriors
By Leslie Weir “Why is there so much trash?” “Why do people throw so much trash in the water?” These are the questions GGBA
5 Ways That Birdwatching Has Changed My Life
By Taylor Crisologo Editor’s note: This blog originally appeared on Taylor Crisologo’s website BayAreaNaturalist.com There are very few hobbies that I can say have changed my
Looking up at the 2018 Audubon California Assembly
by Clayton Anderson “Look Up”! was the slogan for this year’s California Assembly. There were some real positives to take away from the event. I
Keep Our Parks Healthy: Vote Yes on Measure FF
By Pam Young In 2004, the East Bay Regional Park District won 72% approval from East Bay voters in Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, Alameda, San Pablo,
Reluctant No Longer
By Eric Schroeder It was the first day of my month-long program teaching University of California students in South Africa. I was leading a three-hour
The Journeys of Debi Shearwater
An interview with Debi Shearwater, founder of Shearwater Journeys and recipient of the Ludlow Griscom Award at the 2018 Monterey Birding Festival By Taylor Crisologo
Birds and Beginning Sailors
By Marjorie Powell and Linda Carloni It all started with a comment at a GGBA Centennial Celebration in spring 2017. Photographs of birds in Alameda
Surveying Brown Pelicans at the Alameda Wildlife Reserve Breakwater Island
NOTE: Updated post with additional photos. By Taylor Crisologo The pelican moved slowly, stretching out its great wings in one fluid motion. It lifted its
Monterey Pine Egret Colony in Alameda – A Photo Blog
Text and photos by Gerry Traucht “Once almost hunted into extinction for the value of their feathers – an ounce of feathers surpassed the
Art and Ospreys
by Alisa Golden When San Francisco Center for the Book asked me to submit a design for Roadworks, their annual steamroller printing festival, it didn’t