The new edition of The Gull newsletter for Spring 2016 is now available online. Read it to learn to learn why Golden Gate Bird Alliance supports Measure AA, the parcel tax to restore San Francisco Bay wetlands that will be on the June ballot.
Also get the scoop on birding at Mitchell Canyon; Red-breasted Nuthatches; and our 2016 Birdathon.
And of course it includes the calendar for our Speaker Series in April, May, and June!
Click here to read it: TheGull_Spr16
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The Golden Gate Bird Alliance Board of Directors includes a Nominating Committee, which nominates persons to stand for election to the Board of Directors each year. The election is typically held in May and/or June of each year. If you have an interest in joining the Board, we urge you to contact either the President of the Board (Alan Harper) or the Chair of the Nominating Commitee (Karim Al-Khafaji) so you can be considered by the Nominating Committee. Alan and Karim can be reached by calling the GGBA office and leaving a message – 510.843.2222. We’ll get back to you!
In addition, current Supporting Members of Golden Gate Bird Alliance may also nominate persons to stand for election to the Board by petition. To do so, members must deliver a petition making the nomination to the President of the Board (Alan Harper) or the current Chair of the Nominating Commitee (Karim Al-Khafaji) at least 12 weeks before the election (for 2016, this date is April 7, 2016). The petition must be signed by at least 100 supporting members in good standing. The signatures must have been gathered no earlier than August 1, 2015. The petition must be accompanied by the written agreement of the candidate to serve.…
Expand your life list and your horizons through birding travel with Golden Gate Bird Alliance! Our 2016 travel program includes guided trips to top birding destinations such as South Africa, Amazonian Ecuador, South Texas, and Oaxaca.
Golden Gate Bird Alliance’s travel program offers world-class birding destinations, expert naturalist guides, comfortable lodging, seamless logistics, and great companionship. No guesswork or worries on your part; just relax and enjoy great birding!
Click here for the full list of trips and dates. Plan ahead since spaces on these great trips are limited! (Trips to Arizona and Oregon are already full.) For questions, detailed itineraries, and registration, email Pat at patkirkpatrick14@gmail.com or Rubi at rabrams2@pacbell.net .
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The final results of our 75th Oakland Christmas Bird Count are now available, including a comparison of this count with our first one in 1938! You can download the narrative report by compilers Dave Quady and Bob Lewis and the tally of species found:
Many thanks to Bob and Dave for organizing the count and producing this report… and to the dozens of area leaders and hundreds of participants who made it happen.
See you again in December 2016!
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Allen Hirsch
Allen Hirsch meant a lot to the birding community, and especially to Golden Gate Bird Alliance. He was a valued Board Member excited to join the Board as the organization approaches its 100-year anniversary of conservation engagement here in the Bay Area. Allen’s professional expertise and intellectual capacity merited serious respect. His ability to capture the marvel of birdlife with a camera endeared him to thousands who never had the pleasure to meet him in person.
Allen’s photographic talents and fascination with birds made him an important contributor to Golden Gate Bird Alliance’s conservation and education endeavors. Our popular Birds of the Bay Area calendars included artful imagery from Allen’s lens in recent years. Allen’s photos helped us bring awareness to the plight of birds at risk in local urban settings, including an extensive rookery of Black Crowned Night Herons and Snowy Egrets nesting in street trees in downtown Oakland. People were moved to support Snowy Plovers on Bay Area beaches by seeing Allen’s images of these threatened tiny shorebirds.
Ordinary citizens are now getting involved in caring for shoreline habitats so that dramatic Ospreys — including the very same birds shown in Allen’s pictures — will thrive on SF Bay. His series of Western Bluebirds thrilled the under-served schoolchildren in our award-winning Eco-Education program, who built and installed nest boxes with us for their own schoolyards and local parklands. Still more photos of waterfowl, shorebirds, and songbirds by Allen galvanized people to join and support our efforts to protect the myriad species and habitats that grace our shared world.
Allen will be dearly missed by all of us at Golden Gate Bird Alliance. Our only consolation in losing this remarkable gentleman much too early is that he departed while doing something that he loved: birding with a camera in hand. In fact, Allen was helping conduct our 75th annual winter census of local birdlife and documenting the presence of beautiful native birds on a world-record-setting Christmas Bird Count, when he suddenly passed away on December 20, 2015.
Allen Hirsch left a trail of inspiration, though, and here are a few photo souvenirs that remind us of his vision…
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Our Vision
A world where birds, wildlife, and all people flourish together.
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