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 rnakano@goldengatebirds.org
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Return of the Terns — and of the tern watchers
By Ilana DeBare This past Saturday was the annual Return of the Terns celebration and bus tour, the one day each year when the breeding
Oakland adopts Bird Safety Building Measures
By Ilana DeBare Good news! The City of Oakland just added a set of Bird Safety Measures to its building permit requirements – becoming the
One wing down
By Phila Rogers When I fell and broke my right shoulder in April, I felt as if I had lost a wing. With the arm
Buena Vista Park: Birding Hotspot
By Kimberly Jannarone Buena Vista is San Francisco’s oldest official park (1867), and it earns its name. It’s a hilltop forest, with winding trails and
Former intern helps launch GGBA high school program
This spring, Golden Gate Bird Alliance partnered with the East Oakland Boxing Association to offer a pilot eight-week high school environmental program. EOBA is a 25-year-old youth
Birdathon 2013 – we did it!
By Ilana DeBare Whew. The fundraising is over, the birding is over, the judging is over, and now even the celebrating is over. And get
GGBA joins lawsuit to protect swallows
By Ilana DeBare Last month we wrote about the Caltrans netting on a Petaluma bridge construction site that was trapping and killing dozens of Cliff Swallows. Many
One year of plover habitat help
By Corny Foster If you are walking the north end of Crissy Field beach in the Presidio, you can easily mistake a Western Snowy Plover
Bluebirds in Berkeley…. again!
By Ilana DeBare It’s been one full year since we started this Golden Gate Birder blog! In that time, our busy and talented members have
Viewing birds through their nests
San Francisco photographer Sharon Beals will be a guest exhibitor at our Birdathon Awards Dinner on Sunday May 19th. Sharon is the author of Nests:
Beach Chalet goes to the Coastal Commission
By Ilana DeBare For the past two years, we’ve been fighting plans by the city of San Francisco to create artificial-turf soccer fields with stadium-style
Birdathon sails south (to Elkhorn Slough)
By Bob Lewis Eleven friends of Golden Gate Bird Alliance did a Birdathon trip near Monterey on April 15 aboard the Elkhorn Slough Safari boat,