Birding Archive
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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Posted by GGAS in
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 Bob Lewis in
Birding, Golden Gate Audubon
By Bob Lewis
Eleven friends of Golden Gate Audubon did a Birdathon trip near Monterey on April 15 aboard the Elkhorn Slough Safari boat, finding about 43 species in two hours, and photographing many. Although the weather report promised high winds and cold temperatures, the elements held off and the morning was pleasant. Captain Yohn is expert at maneuvering close to animals without spooking them, …
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Posted by Ilana DeBare in
Birding, Golden Gate Audubon
By Ilana DeBare
If this blog has been a little quiet for the past couple of weeks, it’s because we’ve been spending a lot of time on the (annoying, frustrating, necessary) administrative details of our annual Birdathon, which runs throughout the month of April.
But here’s the payoff for all that administrative scutwork — time in the field for Birdathon participants!
Jerry Tin…
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Posted by GGAS in
Birding
By Verne Nelson
Yesterday I saw two crows perform the mating ritual. As I discovered later on the Internet, apparently this is rarely observed because it is only done at bond formation and the bond lasts for life.
It happened in a parking lot. I was sitting on a bench in view of it when I heard odd but crow-like sounds. Can’t remember the sound, however when I looked I saw the male standing over a h…
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Posted by Jack Dumbacher in
Birding, Conservation
By Jack Dumbacher
What iconic north American bird used to be the most abundant bird species on earth, but is definitely not on your life list? The Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius. But if Bay Area innovators Stewart Brand and Ryan Phelan have their way, you may be able to see them again, live in feathered form.
Extinction – the end of a gene pool – is regarded as the final step from which there …
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