Over 320 people signed up for the 77th annual Oakland Christmas Bird Count which uncovered some species in Berkeley that are rare in the Bay Area.
Ilana DeBare
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Rigel Stuhmiller: From soccer sidelines to bird prints
Berkeley printmaker Rigel Stuhmiller will be the guest artist Saturday, May 13, at Golden Gate Audubon Society’s annual awards celebration.
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Tilden Park exhibit marks Golden Gate Audubon’s centennial
The Berkeley-based Golden Gate Audubon Society is marking its 100th anniversary with a traveling exhibit on display at Tilden Park Environmental Education Center through the end of March.
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Citizen-scientists document bird life at the Albany Bulb
A citizen group the and Berkeley-based Golden Gate Audubon recently published a bird survey of the Bulb and Neck that found about 90 species use the 33-acre area.
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Berkeley teams help make Oakland Christmas Bird Count the biggest in the world
Emilie Strauss peered across Lake Anza and divided up the watery territory by species. “David is counting coots, Mark is doing mallards, who wants to do Pied-billed Grebes?” she called out. It was just after dawn on Sunday, Dec. 20, and the rosy sky over the lake heralded a welcome break in the rain for […]
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At 2014 Christmas Bird Count — no rain, much fun
The Bay Area’s welcome rainstorms let up for 24 hours on Sunday Dec. 14… just long enough for more than 200 birders to have a fabulous Oakland Christmas Bird Count. Both novice and experienced birders fanned out over a 15-mile-wide circle including Oakland, Berkeley, Albany and neighboring cities, as part of Audubon’s 115th annual Christmas Bird […]
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Climate change spells trouble for Berkeley birds
Some of Berkeley’s most common and beloved birds could face extinction within the next 70 years due to climate change, according to an authoritative new study by National Audubon Society. The study – released on Tuesday after seven years of research – predicts the effects of climate change on 588 species of North American birds. It […]
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Cardinals trounce Bears in first ever birding Big Game
Ten birding Bears! Four song-filled hours! Sixty-four species! But alas, no victory. The Berkeley birding team organized by Golden Gate Audubon Society fell eleven species short of their cross-bay rivals on Sunday morning, in the first ever Cal-versus-Stanford Big Game birding competition. The Stanford team spotted 75 species to Berkeley’s 64. Berkeley may have been undone […]
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Counting crows: Why are there so many in Berkeley?
“Why are there so many darn crows in Berkeley these days?” We get that question a lot at Berkeleyside, and Golden Gate Audubon gets it too. It’s not just Berkeley. Crows are on the increase throughout the Bay Area, as are their larger and deeper-voiced cousins, ravens. Back in the 1980s, Golden Gate Audubon members […]
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It’s Cal versus Stanford in first ever birding Big Game
“Go Bears! Spot that warbler!” That’s a chant you’re unlikely to hear from the packed bleachers of Memorial Stadium during a Cal-Stanford football game. But it’s a chant a certain group of enthusiasts will be mouthing silently to themselves on April 13, when Golden Gate Audubon Society faces off against Santa Clara Valley Audubon in Birding’s […]
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‘Catios’ protect birds, give cats taste of outdoors
The black cat named Totoro trained his bright yellow eyes on a Chestnut-backed Chickadee singing on a branch. The chickadee was only a few feet away. There was no windowpane between them. The cat could practically reach out and grab the bird. The bird was safe. Totoro was in his “catio” – an outdoor enclosure […]