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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Audubon report on birds & climate change
By Ilana DeBare As wildlife lovers, as Bay Area residents, as supporters of Golden Gate Bird Alliance, we already know that climate change means trouble
A century since the last Passenger Pigeon
By Ilana DeBare This Monday September 1st will mark the 100th anniversary of the death in captivity of the last Passenger Pigeon. Several months ago,
Middle Harbor Shoreline: Birding Hotspot
By Maureen Lahiff Come see a really good mudflat. Come see a really good restored mudflat. From late July to early April, Middle Harbor Shoreline
New SF program to prevent residential bird collisions
By Ilana DeBare San Francisco already has one of the country’s first laws aimed at preventing bird-window collisions in new commercial buildings. Now — with
Farewell Clapper Rail, hello Ridgway’s Rail
By Dave Quady Like many other birders, I always look forward to the July issue of The Auk, the journal of the American Ornithologists’ Union
Birding Oregon with GGBA
By John Tysell I met our guide, Harry Fuller, in Ashland, Oregon where he lives. I had done a previous Golden Gate Bird Alliance trip
New clues to a Band-tailed Pigeon mystery
By Jack Dumbacher In recent months, I’ve seen and heard many Band-tailed Pigeons around my house in Marin. Their burst of slapping wing beats can
Osprey starting to nest along the Bay
Golden Gate Bird Alliance is part of the Bay Area Osprey Coalition, a new group working to protect and educate the public about the growing
Making it work on the South Coast
By Phila Rogers I don’t think I could have written these words even two months ago because I was still unreconciled to my move to
A fallen sparrow spurs a bird-friendly schoolyard
By Anthony DeCicco Imagine you are a Golden-crowned Sparrow. You hatched in 2013 on the shrubby lowland tundra of Middleton Island, about 80 miles off
Making the case for biodiversity
By Jack Dumbacher I have little doubt that as long as there are people to watch them, there will always be some birds to watch.
An Eco-Ed school year winds up at the ocean
By Marissa Ortega-Welch Gathered in the cafeteria of their school at eight a.m. on a school day morning in June, the three third grade classes