More GGAS News

Advocating for birds and wildlife in SF

March 6th, 2012
Snowy Plovers-L.Karney

Golden Gate Audubon 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

February 16th, 2012
Burrowing owl at Berkeley Marina

The East Bay Express and Berkeleyside recently ran stories on the small winter population of burrowing owls at the Berkeley marina and on GGAS’s volunteer docents. Check out the Berkeleyside story, with great photos by GGAS docent Doug Donaldson.…Read More

Learning to draw birds

February 12th, 2012
Bird drawing class / Photos by Alan Harper

John Muir Laws led an amazing class on drawing birds as a fundraiser for Golden Gate Audubon

New translucent tape to prevent bird-window collisions

February 10th, 2012
BirdTape

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

January 30th, 2012
Meeker Slough

 

Enjoy this winter by getting outside with Golden Gate Audubon’s Birding the Bay Trail Docents along the bay.  Docents will be providing information on the wonderful waterbirds and shorebirds along the Bay Trail in Richmond.  The schedule for February is

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2011 Big Year Birder an Inspiration

January 4th, 2012

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 County, 264 for City only.   Dominik used ebird to track the species.  Some birds were …Read More

Read and hear about the recent CBCs in Oakland and San Francisco

December 28th, 2011

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 than 100 birder watchers take to annual bird count

San Francisco Appeal …Read More