Behind the scenes of a frenetic, 13-hour birding challenge.
The Refuge On the Wild Side of Silicon Valley
You could spend a lifetime getting to know the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Accessible Birding for Every Body
A Golden Gate Audubon Society blog post about accessibility in birding.
Q&A With “Bird Savant” John Robinson on Black Birders Week
A Q&A with Bay Area birder John Robinson about race, access, and birding.
The Birds Come Back to the Bay
Like me, you may have seen recent headlines sounding the alarm that birds are vanishing from North America. From the abstract of the September 2019 report in the journal Science, an “integration of range-wide population trajectories and size estimates indicates a net loss … Read more
A Second Look at the Bird Population Decline Study
This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original article. When a major new study on North American bird populations appeared in the journal Science last week, it included all the trappings of a typical scientific paper, along with … Read more
Surf Scoter Decline, Interrupted
Surf scoters showed up in the Bay in astonishing numbers in winter 2019, pausing a three-decade decline and puzzling scientists
Counting Birds, Who are Counting on Humanity
In a dark year, citizen science can shine a light on the natural world — and on humanity.
I Used Facial Recognition Technology on Birds
Birders know you can recognize individual birds. Can a computer scientist train a machine to do so?
Why I Go Outside in this Era of Contempt
A citizen scientist and amateur naturalist on the value of nature.