GGAS Blog
The Secret Lives of Turkeys
By Alan Krakauer Editor’s Note: Alan is a biologist living in Richmond. He is broadly interested in evolution, ecology, and natural history. Most of his research has focused on the behavioral ecology of birds. To learn more about Alan’s life and work, you can go to his WEBSITE. Alan also has a Nature PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITE, complete
Why I’m Partnering with GGAS
By Alan Krakauer of Alan Krakauer Photography When I launched Alan Krakauer Photography in 2018, I wanted to channel my passion for birds into advocacy for nature and open space. I didn’t start with any special plan for how this would happen. It was a happy feature of my fledgling business that I found
Celebrating Clay Anderson, one of Bay Nature’s 2021 Local Heroes
By Melissa Ramos, Communications Manager We at GGAS are pleased to announce that our own Clay Anderson (Youth Programs Manager and the head of our award winning Eco-Education program) is being celebrated as one of Bay Nature’s 2021 Local Heroes! Today, Clay was named Bay Nature’s 2021 Environmental Educator. His lifetime of service in
Spring on the Summit
By Liam O’Brien “Mysterious and little known organisms live within walking distance of where you sit. Splendor awaits in minute proportions.” – E.O. Wilson, Biophilia. I’d like to start this off with a correction for my last blog entry. Celia Ronis correctly pointed out recently that my sentence structure made it sound like Linnaeus
The Anatomy of a Fundraising Event
By Daryl Goldman We’re almost halfway to our goal of $20,000 for GGAS’s second online fundraiser, our Bird Art and Holiday Sale. I hope you will keep shopping and tell your friends about our fundraising sale. The sale has been extended to November 3rd! If you’d like to go directly to our sale, please
Vote!
By Pam Young, Executive Director You are the most important person in the world. Because this is the year that you decide the future of your planet. You are reading this because you love our Bay area birds, wildlife, wilderness, and all that they represent. So, please, act to protect what you love. Please.
Learn about the Artists of GGAS’s Bird Art and Holiday Sale
By Daryl Goldman The GGAS Bird Art and Holiday Gift Sale is taking place right now in our online store (click here to go to our store) and runs until 9 pm Sunday, November 1. This sale is serving as a fundraiser for GGAS as well as a way to help artists make a
Smoke, Water and Birds: 10 Hours at Sea on a Pelagic
By Elliot Janca Editor’s Note: Toward the end of September, when the skies were dense with smoke and fog, teenage birder Elliot (accompanied by his father, John) took a Pelagic tour to see as many birds as they could. This tour was part of a prize Elliot won in GGAS’s Young Birders Contest (a
Learn more about GGAS’s upcoming Bird Art and Holiday Sale!
By Daryl Goldman There were many challenges this past spring, but while sheltering in place, I found some unexpected joy: the silencing of the traffic allowed me, despite a hearing deficit, to awaken to an overwhelming dawn chorus outside my urban window. Another joy: my work on the GGAS Bird Art Auction we held in
Refuge Takes Flight
By Mark Lipman Editor’s Note: We are happy to offer GGAS members the opportunity to watch Refuge, a beautiful new film portrait of a wildlife refuge in California’s Central Valley that was recorded over the past three winters by director Mark Lipman. Mark has kindly extended free viewing for GGAS members through October 4th. This blog
Another Strong Year for Snowy Plovers at Ocean Beach and Crissy Field, As a New Overwintering Season Begins
By the Snowy Plover Monitors at National Park Service Western snowy plovers are back on Golden Gate National Recreation Area beaches! They weren’t gone for very long. These small, federally threatened shorebirds leave Golden Gate to breed each spring, and return each fall to spend the winter feasting on beach invertebrates. Between the early and
The Butterflies of Mount Sutro
By Liam O’Brien When I surveyed all the butterflies of San Francisco County in 2007 (and again in 2009) Mount Sutro was not one of my ten transect sites. I dismissed it as a horrifying example of “Sutro’s Gift” of eucalyptus from the early 1900s – a monocultural wasteland. I knew of Craig Dawson’s work