Join the Conversation

Join the Conversation

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Please share your memorable GGBA experiences! Did you participate in an event, volunteer for a program, or lead a great trip? Did you snap a few pictures or take a quick video with your phone? We’d love to share your moments on our social media platforms. Please email photographs and/or video with a description of 20 words or less to lweir@goldengatebirdalliance.org. Please ensure that the people photographed have signed a volunteer waiver or field trip sheet and let us know who to credit for the photo or film clip. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and watch for your posts.…

2018 Birds of the Bay Area photo calendar

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Bring the beauty of Bay Area birds into your home or office every day with our 2018 Birds of the Bay Area photo calendar! Enjoy stunning photos of eagles, warblers, owls, shorebirds, hummingbirds, and more, by dozens of the Bay Area’s most talented wildlife photographers.

At just $20 plus tax/shipping, the calendar makes a great holiday gift for anyone who loves nature. Pick one up at our Berkeley office or our monthly Speaker Series. Or order conveniently and securely online:

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The cover photo by Andrew Carothers-Liske shows a Black-necked Stilt watching over its two chicks at Berkeley’s Aquatic Park. More bird families are featured inside the calendar, including a Bald Eagle and chick in their nest in Milpitas, a Coot feeding its brightly-colored youngster, and a trio of Burrowing Owl siblings.

Thank you to all the photographers who contributed their work! All proceeds benefit Golden Gate Bird Alliance’s conservation and education programs.

Calendar cover – Black-necked Stilt and chicks

 

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Travel with Golden Gate Bird Alliance in 2018

Travel with Golden Gate Bird Alliance in 2018

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See the birds of the world with us! We’ve just rolled out our exciting roster of guided birding trips in 2018. Destinations include:

Baja California, including whale watching – Click BAJA 2018 Flyer to view the full itinerary!

Denali and Glacier Bay National Parks in Alaska

Peru, from the Amazon rainforest to the Andes

Costa Rica

Oaxaca (Mexico)

South Texas for spring migration (NEW second session just added!), and

Southern Oregon.

Our trips are carefully chosen to offer world-class birding destinations, expert birding guides, comfortable lodging, seamless logistics, and great companionship. Expand your life list. Discover beautiful and exotic new locations. Explore the local cultures. Make new birding friends. And all the while, relax, knowing you are in the hands of knowledgeable and experienced guides who know the best times and places to find the birds you want to see.

View the full list of trips and dates at goldengatebirdalliance.org/travel or click here to print out a PDF. Then for detailed itineraries and other information, contact our Travel Coordinators Pat Kirkpatrick at patkirkpatrick14@gmail.com or Rubi Abrams at rabrams2@pacbell.net.

All Golden Gate Bird Alliance trips help fund out conservation and environmental education programs…. just another reason to do your birding travel with us.

Hoatzin, one of the target birds on our Peru trip Meeting a gray whale calf in Baja / Photo by Juan-Carlos Solis Turquoise-browed Motmot in Costa Rica by Jerry Johnson Machu Picchu on Peru trip, by Laura Hare Orange-breasted Bunting on Oaxaca trip, by Ed Eder…
Our Centennial exhibit comes to Lindsay Wildlife

Our Centennial exhibit comes to Lindsay Wildlife

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The traveling exhibit celebrating our 100th anniversary is now on display at Lindsay Wildlife Experience in Walnut Creek, through February 2018.

Lindsay Wildlife Experience is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays. It’s located at 1931 First Avenue in Walnut Creek. For directions, parking, and other visitor information, see https://lindsaywildlife.org/hours-prices-directions/.
Centennial exhibit at the Presidio / Photo by Billy Douglas

Lindsay Wildlife Experience is the final stop for our Centennial exhibit during 2017.ggas_centenniallogo_cmyk_fnl

Other venues included:

State of California Building Atrium.
January 3-30, 2017

Tilden Regional Park Environmental Education Center
February 1 – March 31, 2017

Oakland City Hall & Dalziel Building
May 24 – July 7, 2017

Tides Thoreau Center at the Presidio
July 10 – September 29, 2017

Lindsay Wildlife Experience
October 3, 2017 – February 28, 2018

Coyote Hills Regional Park Visitor Center
July 18, 2018 – 

 

Viewing the Centennial exhibit in San Francisco Viewing part of the Centennial exhibit in Berkeley

 

Special Centennial issue of The Gull

We also have other Centennial-related events planned for 2017, including monthly guest speakers on species and topics related to our history and field trips to parks that we have helped protect or restore. Click here to download the special Centennial issue of our Gull newsletter, which tells the fascinating story of our first 100 years.

Our overall goal for the year is to strengthen Golden Gate Bird Alliance so that we can be an even more effective advocate for Bay Area birds and wildlife in the coming century. We are proud of our achievements — from stopping oil dumping off the Farallon Islands in the 1920s to protecting Alameda’s endangered Least Tern nesting colony in the 2000s — and we hope to share them with with our existing members as well as thousands of people who are new to Golden Gate Bird Alliance.

You can help! How?

  • Bring your friends to the exhibit or to other GGBA events during 2017.
  • Recruit a new member for GGBA. Help us grow! Every current member who gets a friend to join GGBA for the first time will receive a beautiful enamel pin with our Centennial logo… one for you and one for your friend! Have your friend sign up at goldengatebirdalliance.org/bring100 to take advantage of the Centennial pin offer.
  • Volunteer to help with the exhibit, a Centennial reception, or other GGBA outreach activities such as staffing an information table at a community event or wildlife festival.
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Winter 2017 Gull is available
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Winter 2017 Gull is available

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Special Centennial issue of The Gull

The new edition of The Gull newsletter for Winter 2017 is now available — a special 20-page issue celebrating the Centennial of our founding in 1917!

Read it for stories and images from 100 years of protecting Bay Area birds. Learn about our successful campaigns to prevent oil spills, create Audubon Canyon Ranch, and preserve Mono Lake, and meet past GGBA heroes such as Elsie Roemer, Paul Covel, and Junea Kelly.

Also get the scoop on our traveling Centennial museum exhibit, which will be on display at five public venues throughout 2017! We hope you’ll celebrate this landmark year with us at the exhibit or at one of our other events throughout the year.

Of course this issue of The Gull also includes GGBA news updates and the calendar for our Speaker Series in January, February and March!

Click here to read it: TheGull_Winter2017.

P.S. If you’re a GGBA member who gets the Gull online by email but would like a print copy of this special edition, contact our office at ggas@goldengatebirdalliance.org. We’ll be happy to mail you one.

 

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