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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

We are especially interested in publishing blog posts from writers within underrepresented communities including; Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities. For more information on contributing blog posts and the editing process visit our Blog Guideline page here.

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Progress towards a Point Molate park

By Ilana DeBare When a struggle to save a natural area from development has been going on for 25 years, every small step forward is

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April 1, 2022

From the Trees to the Streets to Safety

By Ryan Nakano On the corner of 12th and Harrison and along the perimeter of the Oakland Museum of California, nesting herons and egrets make

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March 29, 2022

On the Greater Sage-Grouse Lek

By Bryan Flaig I stood on a small berm along the side of a deeply rutted jeep road and turned off my headlamp. The world

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March 16, 2022
Bess Petty and son

Bess Petty: Bird Artist

By Ilana DeBare Bess Petty was working for a company that made trade show banners when a friend asked if she had any small creations

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March 11, 2022
Richmond CBC counters at Ferry Point - Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline on the morning of the count

Richmond Christmas Bird Count Takes Its Maiden Voyage

By Karyn Noel It’s dark o’clock on the first sunday of 2022.  I make coffee, pack my lunch, grab my bins and head toward my

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January 28, 2022

Being a Bird Ambassador

By Margaret Hetherwick  Donna Hayes, Audubon member and resident birder of San Francisco’s Bernal Heights district, remembers seeing the glowing face of inspiration when a

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January 21, 2022
Adult male Summer Tanager in a blooming Eucalyptus at Jefferson Square Park by Mike Carozza

2021 SF Christmas Bird Count Report

By David Assmann  San Francisco birders have been lucky – for the past fifteen years, there has been no rain on the Christmas Bird Count,

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January 14, 2022

Oakland CBC: From Fog to UFO’s

By Ryan Nakano and Viviana Wolinsky The fog is thick. The air, brisk. A small group of “early birders” strike out before the sun has

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January 4, 2022
The whole family in the nest; Richmond, Rosie, Sage, Poppy and Lupine by SF Bay Osprey Cam

SF Bay Ospreys 2021 Season

By Osprey Cam Video Assistant Comparing our past five seasons of Osprey cam footage, I’d have to say the 2021 season was one of the

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December 16, 2021
Field Guide piece titled California Scrub Jay

Field Guide: An Artist’s Approach to Avian Taxonomy

By Christopher Reiger  In March 2020, I was excited. After 15 years of full and part-time jobs in administration and communications, I was finally in

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December 8, 2021
Two new bird guides

Not for beginners only: Two new birding books

By Ilana DeBare There are birding books that are great for beginners, and then there are birding books that are great for beginners AND. The

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November 30, 2021
McNear Brickyard Swifts by Michael Helm

Chaetura Swifts: From trees to chimneys

By Rusty Scalf Even a passing acquaintance with the natural world reveals that species exist on a continuum from Specialist to Generalist—from species that require

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November 24, 2021
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