GGBA BLOG
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Why so many Acorn Woodpeckers?
By Bruce Mast They are the clowns of the oak savannah — Acorn Woodpeckers — with their harlequin faces, gregarious habits, and off-kilter laughing calls
Snowy Plovers arrive — and benefit from new fencing
By Ilana DeBare Remember the line from Field of Dreams: Build it and they will come? The East Bay Regional Park District built protective fencing
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
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,
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
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
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
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