Habitat restoration can work! Join us on Thursday May 17th to learn about a success story in the Carman Valley, near Yuba Pass. Jim Steele, former director of the Sierra Nevada Field Campus, will share secrets of the restoration of six …Read More
Golden Gate Audubon is holding its 2012 election to select new members for the Board of Directors. This year we offer the option of voting online by clicking:
In addition to online voting, you can also …Read More
The new edition of The Gull newsletter for May-June 2012 is now available online, with updates on efforts to protect the colony of endangered California Least Terns in Alameda; the Birdathon dinner on May 10; the Volunteer Picnic on …Read More
We’re excited to announce our weeklong Wildlife Discoverers summer day camp! Kids from 7 through 12 are invited to join in a week of Bay Area wildlife exploration filled with fun and games. Led by our award-winning Eco-Education staff, they’ll …Read More
Two weeks into Birdathon, our annual fundraiser during the month of April, and the birding reports are flowing in… The team at Lake Del Valle spotted 77 species in four hours including BALD EAGLES on a nest. The Hayward …Read More
GGAS’ Eco-Education staff and their students at Verde Elementary School helped lead a community creek clean-up for Earth Day in North Richmond — and were featured in the S.F. Chronicle.
You can read the article here.…Read More
Our first-ever Birdathon Photo Contest is up and running on Facebook — and will continue throughout the month of April!
Photographers: Submit up to four of your best shots of Bay Area birds taken during the month of April.
Learn more about local birds and see them at local parks. Golden Gate Audubon Docents will be out in the field in March.
Lake Merritt Docents in Oakland – in partnership with SF Nature Education:
March 17 from 10am-12noon
March …Read More
Egret and heron nesting season has arrived, and Golden Gate Audubon Society members are invited to serve as volunteer hosts at Audubon Canyon Ranch!.
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.
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
John Muir Laws led an amazing class on drawing birds as a fundraiser for Golden Gate Audubon
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.
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
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
On December 19, 2011 San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee vetoed proposed legislation to restore Sharp Park.
This legislation which was sponsored by Supervisor Avalos was supported by 36 community and environmental groups and approved by the Board of Supervisors.
Read …Read More
CALL FOR ENTRIES: 2D and 3D artists
The art exhibition CELEBRATION is focused exclusively on the SUCCESSES of conservation and will illustrate species of plants, animals, birds, etc. thatare now at SAFE POPULATION LEVELS due to conservation. Click here for …Read More
Calendars, puzzles, plush birds, field guides, books on backyard birding and an array of stocking stuffers (as well as the new Alameda County Breeding Bird Atlas) are all available in the GGAS Nature Store for holiday giving. Stop in during …Read More
Our Birding the Bay Trail Docents will be back on the trail in December.
You can learn from the docents about the birds on these dates:
Golden Gate Audubon’s 2010-2011 Annual Report is now available! View a PDF here.…Read More
Celebrate Urban Birds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology invites organizations and educators to apply for mini-grants to help fund neighborhood event in communities everywhere. To apply for a mini-grants, please visit their website. For more information, please contact …Read More
Golden Gate Audubon joins City of San Francisco in calling for a voluntary ban on harmful rodenticides.
The State of the Birds Report for San Francisco Bay, 2011 was just released by the Point Reyes Bird Observatory and San Francisco Bay Joint Venture. Click here to read more.…Read More
“TogetherGreen,” a nationwide corporate/community partnership program, taps volunteers to restore San Francisco wetland habitat on former dumping grounds at Pier 94. Click here to learn more!
GGAS Member & Volunteer Dominik Mosur Sets New SF Big Year Record – Click here to learn more!…Read More
Golden Gate Audubon welcomes GGAS member Steve Lombardi as the new volunteer coordinator of our field trips program. Steve and his wife, Carol, have been leading trips for more than a year, both locally to such hotspots as Mitchell Canyon, …Read More
If you do, consider volunteering to assist on Golden Gate Audubon birding-by-bicycle field trips in the East Bay and other locations. Nearly all the trips go to bird-rich habitats that are accessible via the San Francisco Bay Trail and other …Read More
It’s going to be a big year for birding and Golden Gate Audubon Society when 20th Century Fox releases The Big Year in theatres Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. The new movie, starring Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black, prominently features the sport of birding…
