ACTION ALERT! – Alameda Wildlife Refuge
An 18-year-long conflict over a key Alameda breeding site for California Least Terns is close to a positive solution — but we need your help to ensure that the plan becomes a reality!
Call or email the Alameda City Council before March 20th urging them to approve a win-win agreement that includes creation of a wildlife refuge for permanent protection of the colony of endangered terns at Alameda Point.
Docents in the field
Learn more about local birds and see them at local parks. Golden Gate Bird Alliance Docents will be out in the field in March. Lake
Volunteer at Audubon Canyon Ranch!
Egret and heron nesting season has arrived, and Golden Gate Bird Alliance members are invited to serve as volunteer hosts at Audubon Canyon Ranch!.
Advocating for birds and wildlife in SF
Golden Gate Bird Alliance has been speaking out on behalf of birds and wildlife in two current controversies involving the city of San Francisco — the city’s plans to host the America’s Cup, and to create brightly-lit artificial turf soccer fields in the Beach Chalet area of western Golden Gate Park.
Burrowing owls and docents in the news
The East Bay Express and Berkeleyside recently ran stories on the small winter population of burrowing owls at the Berkeley marina and on GGBA’s volunteer
Learning to draw birds
John Muir Laws led an amazing class on drawing birds as a fundraiser for Golden Gate Bird Alliance
New translucent tape to prevent bird-window collisions
American Bird Conservancy is marketing a new translucent tape that can warn birds away from glass windows. helping decrease collisions that kill as many as 1 billion birds each year.
Bird the Bay Trail with Docents in February
Enjoy this winter by getting outside with Golden Gate Bird Alliance’s Birding the Bay Trail Docents along the bay. Docents will be providing information on
2011 Big Year Birder an Inspiration
Congratulations to Dominik Mosur who recorded 273 species of birds in his 2011 big year in San Francisco. His final tally was 273 species for San Francisco
Read and hear about the recent CBCs in Oakland and San Francisco
San Francisco Christmas Bird Count was on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 KCBS “Volunteers Do Annual Bird Count at San Francisco Zoo” Contra Costa Times “More