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Japanese tsunami debris at Pier 94?
By Ilana DeBare GGBA Volunteer Coordinator Noreen Weeden was birding recently at Pier 94, the old San Francisco dump site that we’ve restored as wetlands
A Bay Area Birder in South Texas
By Pamela Clark As in real estate, we know location is everything in birding. I recently attended the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival for the
A Win for Forage Fish, and the Birds that Eat Them
This post is reprinted from Audublog, the blog of Audubon California. GGBA’ incoming Executive Director Mike Lynes helped draft Audubon California’s comments to the California Fish
Holiday gifts for birders
By Ilana DeBare NOTE: Check out our more recent post on Holiday Gifts for Birders, 2015! Looking for kids’ gifts? We also have a post
James Bond, birder
By Ilana DeBare You’d never guess it from the box-office-blockbuster Skyfall, but… James Bond was a birder. No, not the Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan, Sean
Report from Hawk Hill, Part 2
Each fall, hundreds of volunteers with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory track hawk migration through the Bay Area. To celebrate fall migration, here’s the second
Report from Hawk Hill, Part 1
Each fall, hundreds of volunteers with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory track hawk migration through the Bay Area. From the top of Hawk Hill in the Marin
Welcome back to “our” Tufted Duck
By Ilana DeBare Welcome back to the Lake Merritt Tufted Duck! Once again, a Tufted Duck has arrived to winter among the scaup of Lake
One volunteer, 35 nest boxes
By Ilana DeBare Golden Gate Bird Alliance has many wonderful volunteers — sharp-eyed field trip leaders, personable docents, folks who assist with the unglamorous but
Brown Pelicans at Alameda Point
We at Golden Gate Bird Alliance have spent a lot of time advocating for the endangered California Least Terns at Alameda Point. But there are
Winners/losers in Oakland’s Christmas Bird Count
By Bob Lewis This year will be the 113th year of Christmas Bird Counts in North America. Golden Gate Bird Alliance sponsors two counts in
Moving forward with the Alameda Wildlife Refuge
By Mike Lynes Federal and local government agencies have been moving forward in recent months with plans to transfer part of the former Alameda Naval