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Conservation, Golden Gate Audubon
By Ilana DeBare
Last month we wrote about the Caltrans netting on a Petaluma bridge construction site that was trapping and killing dozens of Cliff Swallows.
Many Golden Gate Audubon members — as well as other conservation groups — wrote to Caltrans asking it to adopt less lethal methods of keeping birds from nesting on the bridge during construction. But Caltrans hasn’t list…
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Posted by GGAS in
Birding, Conservation, Golden Gate Audubon
By Corny Foster
If you are walking the north end of Crissy Field beach in the Presidio, you can easily mistake a Western Snowy Plover for one more ripple of sand. Camouflage helps the plovers evade predators. It is also the reason that few people know the birds are there until they almost step on them!
Luckily, there are some people who are highly aware of the plovers – Golden Gate Audubon and National Park Se…
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Birding
San Francisco photographer Sharon Beals will be a guest exhibitor at our Birdathon Awards Dinner on Sunday May 19th. Sharon is the author of Nests: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them, published by Chronicle Books. For the nests in her book, she turned to the collections of the California Academy of Sciences, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. Join u…
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Posted by Ilana DeBare in
Conservation, Golden Gate Audubon
By Ilana DeBare
For the past two years, we’ve been fighting plans by the city of San Francisco to create artificial-turf soccer fields with stadium-style lighting in western Golden Gate Park, an area that was intended in city plans to remain more natural and less developed.
We lost a round in this battle last summer before the city’s planning and parks commissions.
But next week, the issue …
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