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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Phila Rogers When eighty California poets come together to create an anthology about crows and ravens, you know these corvids have a strong grip

By Jack Dumbacher The Barred Owl (Strix varia) is the eastern cousin to our western Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis).  Like the Spotted Owl, the Barred

Golden Gate Bird Alliance encourages San Francisco voters to approve Measure B, the $196 million parks bond that will be on the November ballot. We

By Ilana DeBare “When it’s a jar,” was the answer to that old joke. But we have a new answer – when it’s a mural!