Golden Gate Audubon Archive
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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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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 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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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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Golden Gate Audubon, Nature Education
By Ilana DeBare
Fifteen wiggly fourth graders crowded into a narrow asphalt strip between their North Richmond schoolyard and the fence bordering Rheem Creek. “You are standing in what may be your future rain garden!” declared landscape architect Bob Birkeland, a volunteer with Golden Gate Audubon’s Eco-Education program.
That didn’t seem to mean much to the kids, who wer…
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Birding, Golden Gate Audubon
By Ivan Samuels
When was the last time you went birding without binoculars? Most birders would consider this a bad idea for obvious reasons. But with experience, you would be surprised how many species you can identify without optics. Birding by ear, by definition, implies that you don’t even need to see the bird for species recognition. And in many cases, you already know the species you are wa…
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