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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Free As a Bird: Searching For The Sirdah Twins
I remember thinking of all the things I had learned about birds since starting with the organization and yet, this symbolic projection, this equation of birds as an embodiment of freedom, felt so intuitive.
De-Pave Park in Alameda: A Win for the Birds
By Sharol Nelson-Embry and Linda Carloni Last night was a win for the birds as the Alameda City Council voted four-to-one in favor of offering
Sequela: Nature Poems in Response to Climate Crisis
by David Rice Art by Tex Buss Tanka is a lyrical poetic form written in Japan for the past twelve-hundred-plus years and by English-language poets
A Day in the Life of a Climate-Friendly Birder
By Joyce Mercado We all love observing and identifying birds. What joy birds bring us! We naturally want to protect what we love. With that
Lights out for Larry: The Burden of Brightness on Birds
Two weeks ago, a common blue bird disappeared from the city of San Francisco. You know the bird. The one soaring with its upturned belly,
Dotson Family Marsh− How We Got This Great Gift
By Maureen Lahiff Dotson Family Marsh along San Pablo Bay in Richmond is a fantastic place to go birding in fall and winter. Now the
How to Thrive as an SOB (Spouse of Birder)
By Kim Marvel My wife is a birder. The early signs were subtle. Years ago, she requested my assistance placing feeders and nesting boxes in
The Berkeley-Stanford Birdathon
By Sierra Glassman Competition has been ingrained in birding culture for a long time. Surprisingly, only one birding competition has ever occurred between Stanford and
The Curious Case of Mama Kite
(This blog was originally published at Josh Kornbluth’s substack But Not Enough About Me here) By Josh Kornbluth My wife has uncanny bird-spotting abilities. We’ll
Birdathon 2023 Breaks Records
By Ilana DeBare Thank you, thank you, thank you! Birdathon 2023 broke all previous records for a Golden Gate Bird Alliance Birdathon, raising about 50
These Binoculars are Out of this World!
By Blake Edgar Bay Area birders in the market for new binoculars or a spare spotting scope know to migrate up the coast to Mendocino
From the Sierras to the Mojave: A Search for the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
By Brandy Ford Walking along a dry sandy riverbed early one July morning in the Kern River Valley, we heard it—a slow, sharp bark building