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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.

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Alameda plovers win protective fencing

By Ilana DeBare Alameda’s winter population of threatened Western Snowy Plovers will be a lot safer this year — thanks to new protective fencing installed

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October 8, 2014

Why Audubon Supports Prop 1 (Water Bond)

Audubon California is supporting Proposition 1, the $7 billion state water bond that will be on the California ballot in November. Here are the reasons,

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October 5, 2014

A win for Berkeley’s squirrels — and Burrowing Owls

By Ilana DeBare Do you recall the furor that erupted last spring when the City of Berkeley announced plans to exterminate thousands of ground squirrels

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October 2, 2014

Vaux’s Swifts in San Rafael, 2014

By Cindy Margulis I absolutely love the energy associated with massive numbers of birds ingathering — especially at dusk.   So I was treated to a

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September 28, 2014

Protecting Plovers in Pacifica

By Sue Morgan On a gorgeous sunny day in Pacifica, with surfers nearby in the water, more than fifty men, women and children converged from

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September 16, 2014

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

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September 8, 2014

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,

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August 27, 2014

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

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August 20, 2014

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

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August 14, 2014

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

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August 11, 2014

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

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August 6, 2014

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

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August 3, 2014
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