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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New video! Kids promote a clean and healthy Bay

New video! Kids promote a clean and healthy Bay

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We’re delighted to share our new video, Doing Our Part: Kids and a Healthy Bay.

This 17-minute video features young conservation leaders from Golden Gate Bird Alliance sharing some of their favorite places and creatures along the San Francisco Bay shoreline, and their ideas for how we can all keep the Bay’s habitats clean and healthy.

Attention educators: This is a great resource to include in a curriculum on San Francisco Bay wildlife and habitats, local ecology and watersheds, and clean water.

Consider pairing the video with some time in the field, spotting Bay wildlife and helping restore the shoreline! Participants of all ages are welcome at our ongoing volunteer habitat restoration events. See goldengatebirdalliance.org/volunteer for an upcoming restoration event and date convenient to you.

Many thanks to the Alameda County Clean Water Program for funding this video.…

Become a volunteer docent!

Become a volunteer docent!

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Do you love wildlife? Do you love Bay Area nature? Share your passion with others as a volunteer docent with Golden Gate Bird Alliance. We’re seeking volunteers to be Burrowing Owl docents and Birding the Bay Trail docents, and will hold annual trainings for each of these roles in September.

Birding the Bay Trail Docents:

Docents help people spot birds along the Bay Trail

Share the birds along the Bay Trail with residents and visitors. You do NOT need to be an expert birder — just able to identify one or two common shorebirds or ducks.

Teams of two docents go out to pre-selected sites along the beautiful Bay Trail in Richmond and share spotting scope views of the various ducks and shorebirds that make the Bay Area their winter home each year.  Training and materials are provided.  Volunteers are asked to spend two hours once or twice a month from October through March.  This year’s training is on Thursday, September 28, from  6 to 8 p.m.  at the Golden Gate Bird Alliance office in Berkeley.  If you’re interested in attending the training, please RSVP to Noreen Weeden at 510-301-0570 or volunteer@goldengatebirdalliance.org.

Burrowing Owl Docents 

Burrowing Owl in November 2014 by Miya Lucas

Help us continue a tradition of public education and protection for our local Burrowing Owls, when they return to Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley for the winter. Experience the joy as people see their first owl through a spotting scope or binoculars.

 This fall the Golden Gate Bird Alliance will be training additional docents to talk with the public about this locally endangered species and to help document information about these owls. Volunteers should be able to spend one to two hours per visit, at least two times a month, from October through March.

Training will take place on Saturday, September 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Shorebird Nature Center in Berkeley. Interested? RSVP to Noreen Weeden at 510-301-0570 orvolunteer@goldengateaudubon.org.

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