By Pamela Llewellyn When people visit from out of town and ask, “Where’s the best place to go birding?” I always have to pause and

Note: This is the seventh in a series of occasional blog posts by GGBA member George Peyton about his other half Lani Rumbaoa’s effort to

By Steve and Carol Lombardi In April, we joined five other Golden Gate Bird Alliance members on a nine-day birding adventure to the South Texas

By Maureen Lahiff and Linda Carloni Migration is always a natural wonder, whether of songbirds or Monarch butterflies or herds of caribou, but shorebird migration,

By Ilana DeBare They started out as boring, nondescript, too-often-ignored trash cans. But now they are bright spots of bird art in downtown Oakland! A

By Richard Neidhardt The California Condor and support for its recovery at Pinnacles National Park have captured much of my time over the last 5½

By Anthony DeCicco Success! Pure thrilling success. I screamed “Yes!” this spring when I first saw a pair of adult Western Bluebirds entering the nest

By Ilana DeBare Monofilament fishing line may be only 1/100 of an inch thick – but it can still be deadly to water birds and

By Mary Malec This is a story where everyone does everything right… almost. Six or seven years ago I was driving up my street returning

By Ivan Samuels When I realized that spring was upon us and Golden Gate Bird Alliance’s Birdathon season was fast approaching, a smoke signal was

By Maureen Lahiff Have you ever seen an albatross? Do you want to have the pleasure of spotting their distinctive profile, tilting and soaring above