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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.

In order to keep this blog as engaging and relevant as possible we welcome all interested contributors to pitch their article idea(s) to our communications desk at rna****@*************ds.org

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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Redtail nest saga in an Emeryville park

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

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July 19, 2015

Miwok-style Birdathon, 2015

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

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July 14, 2015

Pelagic Birding for Beginners

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

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July 9, 2015

Drones and birds — a growing conflict?

By Ilana DeBare The rocky oceanfront near San Francisco’s Sutro Baths is a key nesting spot for shorebirds such as Black Oystercatchers and Brandt’s Cormorants.

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July 6, 2015

Big Year Birding on the South Texas Coast

Note: This is the sixth 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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June 28, 2015

Heron’s Head Park: Birding Hotspot

By Dominik Mosur Imagine a complex of salt, brackish and freshwater marshes and associated upland covering hundreds of thousands of acres. Then picture it reduced

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June 24, 2015

In praise of fourteen hundred (!) volunteers

By Ilana DeBare Golden Gate Bird Alliance relies on volunteers. How many volunteers, you might ask? A few dozen? Maybe a hundred? Try fourteen hundred

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June 20, 2015

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

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June 16, 2015

“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

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June 13, 2015

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

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June 10, 2015

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

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June 7, 2015

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

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May 25, 2015
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