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GGBA BLOG

Welcome to our online blog featuring thoughtful articles on everything from birding hotspots to bird science written by members of our community.

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We are especially interested in publishing blog posts from writers within underrepresented communities including; Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities. For more information on contributing blog posts and the editing process visit our Blog Guideline page here.

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Safeway = Not Safe for Wildlife and Pets?

San Francisco wildlife photographer Jouko van der Kruijssen posted this story on his SF Wildlife blog earlier this week, with the title “This hawk is

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October 10, 2015

Behind the scenes with our bird photo calendar

By Ilana DeBare One of my favorite parts of working at Golden Gate Bird Alliance is helping curate our annual Birds of the San Francisco

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September 23, 2015
Snowy Plover at Crown Beach

Snowy Plovers are back… with some human help

By Ilana DeBare One of our favorite shorebirds is back for the winter… and in Alameda, at least, they are finding a safer roosting site

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September 21, 2015

Coyote Hills: Birding Hotspot

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

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September 9, 2015

Lani’s Big Year: the big push

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

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August 30, 2015

Birding South Texas with Golden Gate Bird Alliance

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

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August 24, 2015

Time to celebrate shorebird migration!

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,

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August 17, 2015

Trash cans become bird art in Oakland

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

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August 11, 2015

My personal Pinnacles condor experience

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

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August 6, 2015

A nest box newbie in the schoolyard

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

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August 3, 2015

Protecting birds by recycling plastic fishing line

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

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July 30, 2015

Salesforce helps bring nature back to Pier 94

By Ilana DeBare Salesforce may be known for creating software in “the cloud,” but its employees are equally good at getting their hands into dirt.

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July 27, 2015
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