Birdathon 2021 is here!
Join Golden Gate Audubon Society for Birdathon, our annual spring fundraiser. This year’s Birdathon offers innovative new programs from March through May that will keep everyone healthy while still reveling in the Bay Area’s amazing birds:
Virtual Field Trips to ten birding hotspots, presented on Zoom by some of our best trip leaders.
Christmas-in-May Bird Count on May 8th, socially distanced and in conjunction with eBird’s Global Big Day.
Birdathon Adventure Auction. Click here to bid on 17 exciting vacations, private nature tours, works of bird art, and more! This online auction closes on Sunday, May 23.
Don’t miss out on the fun! Learn more and sign up at goldengateaudubon.org/birdathon2021.
Birdathon 2021 is here!
Join Golden Gate Audubon Society for Birdathon, our annual spring fundraiser. This year’s Birdathon offers innovative new programs from March through May that will keep everyone healthy while still reveling in the Bay Area’s amazing birds:
Virtual Field Trips to ten birding hotspots, presented on Zoom by some of our best trip leaders.
Christmas-in-May Bird Count on May 8th, socially distanced and in conjunction with eBird’s Global Big Day.
Birdathon Adventure Auction. Starting May 1st, bid online for exciting adventures you can enjoy once public health guidelines permit.
Don’t miss out on the fun! Learn more and sign up at goldengateaudubon.org/birdathon2021.
check out our next speaker
May 20, 2021
Presented by Lidia D’Amico and Zoe Burr
check out our next speaker
May 20, 2021
Presented by Lidia D’Amico and Zoe Burr
News
Osprey chicks are here!
Rosie and Richmond, the pair of Ospreys featured in our live nest cam along the Richmond shoreline, hatched two chicks over the May 1st weekend and the third is likely to hatch any day now. Watch the nest live, via our two hi-def video cameras, at sfbayospreys.org. Or view daily highlights on our SF
From our Blog
Secret Jewel along Tomales Bay
By Ilana DeBare Bay Area birdwatchers have long flocked to Audubon Canyon Ranch’s flagship Martin Griffin preserve along Bolinas Lagoon, which for years hosted dozens of egret nests. But almost no local birders have set foot on another ACR property—its dramatic Toms Point preserve on the northern edge of Tomales Bay. Toms Point is a
GGAS speaker series
Madagascar’s Fragile Magic
Eric Schroeder will take you on a tour of this amazing island, home to 308 species of birds, 108 of which are endemic. Endemism isn’t limited to individual species but, remarkably, extends to the family level; Madagascar has six endemic avian families: the mesites, the asities, the vangas, the tetras, the ground rollers, and the cuckoo roller (which has only one species—the Cuckoo-roller—in the family.)
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