By Ilana DeBare “Chalk it up… to compassion for Oakland’s herons.” That was the slogan for Golden Gate Bird Alliance’s first-ever Art Flash Mob —

By Ilana DeBare Maggie Hurley’s relationship with birds began as a child in Southern California. When she found injured birds, she’d put them in a

By Matthew Zlatunich The Presidio is already one of San Francisco’s jewels, an urban national park filled with nature and history. Now — as the

By Ilana DeBare Hundreds of Golden Gate Bird Alliance members spoke out on behalf of the birds of Altamont Pass – but it wasn’t enough

By Noreen Weeden If you’re familiar with Golden Gate Bird Alliance, you’ve probably heard about our work restoring Pier 94 as habitat for wildlife on

By George Peyton South Texas is a great place to bird, particularly for a Big Year, since it has a number of bird species that

By Mike Lynes The Altamont Pass is a problem for birds that just won’t go away. So that makes it a problem for Audubon too

By Bruce Mast The composite checklist of native, non-introduced birds for all nine Bay Area Counties adds up to 549 species.*  A quick scan of

By Ilana DeBare Guess who visited the California State Capitol on Wednesday: One leucistic Red-tailed Hawk. One American Kestrel. One Great Horned Owl. And dozens

Golden Gate Bird Alliance member Lee Aurich turned his camera lens on the pair of nesting Osprey at a construction crane in Richmond… and found

By Ilana DeBare You might think that the top Birdathon fundraiser would be an experienced birder. You might think that he or she would be

By Toni Mester Berkeley old-timers remember when Cesar Chavez Park was a dump, the last of the active East Bay landfills. It would cost nothing