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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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,
Two goslings gone – in the jaws of unleashed dogs
By Ilana DeBare There has been so much deeply horrific news this week — the Boston bombings, the spineless Senate, the Texas fertilizer fire. It
Caltrans versus Cliff Swallows
By Ilana DeBare Dozens of Cliff Swallows are being killed each week by a Caltrans contractor in Petaluma — even though alternative technologies are available
Midway through Birdathon madness
By Ilana DeBare If this blog has been a little quiet for the past couple of weeks, it’s because we’ve been spending a lot of
A bird-friendly bioswale in Richmond (someday)
By Ilana DeBare Fifteen wiggly fourth graders crowded into a narrow asphalt strip between their North Richmond schoolyard and the fence bordering Rheem Creek. “You
Crows in love
By Verne Nelson Yesterday I saw two crows perform the mating ritual. As I discovered later on the Internet, apparently this is rarely observed because it
The Revive & Restore project to de-extinct birds
By Jack Dumbacher What iconic north American bird used to be the most abundant bird species on earth, but is definitely not on your life