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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A thriving “Tern Town” in Hayward
By Ilana DeBare If you’ve been involved with Golden Gate Bird Alliance, you’ve probably heard a lot about the nesting colony of California Least Terns

“Chicken” searching in Colorado
Note: This is the fifth in a series of occasional blog posts by GGBA member George Peyton about his other half Lani Rumbaoa’s effort to

Eco-Education by the Bay
This year, Golden Gate Bird Alliance is awarding its Paul Covel Conservation Education award to Herb and Randi Long, two volunteers who have been pillars

Birding Formosa
By Eddie Bartley On a recent visit to Taiwan, we rejoined our friends and most excellent local wildlife guides Stone and Richard for what we

Experiencing Condors during Birdathon
By Leslie Jacoby Newsflash, April 20, 2015: Conservationists thought one of the few numbered wild California Condors had disappeared somewhere in the vast geographical landscape

Birdathon 2015 – successful and fun!
By Ilana DeBare We won’t beat around the bush with the good news. Birdathon 2015 not only hit its goal of raising $50,000 — we

More bad news for Altamont birds
By Ilana DeBare The Alameda County Board of Supervisors had an opportunity Tuesday to reverse a bad decision about Altamont wind power — and they

Lani’s Big Year goes to Florida
Note: This is the fourth in an ongoing series of posts by GGBA member George Peyton about his better half Lani Rumbaoa’s effort to spot

Art Flash Mob for Oakland Herons
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 —

From nursing birds to painting them
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

Share your ideas for new Presidio parklands
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

Wind company wins three more years of Altamont bird deaths
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