What place does a bird away from home hold in San Francisco?
How Many Birds Can Be Found in the Bay Area in One Day?
June 15, 2022 •
Behind the scenes of a frenetic, 13-hour birding challenge.
The Refuge On the Wild Side of Silicon Valley
June 10, 2021 •
You could spend a lifetime getting to know the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Accessible Birding for Every Body
May 13, 2021 •
A Golden Gate Audubon Society blog post about accessibility in birding.
Q&A With “Bird Savant” John Robinson on Black Birders Week
June 4, 2020 •
A Q&A with Bay Area birder John Robinson about race, access, and birding.
The Birds Come Back to the Bay
September 27, 2019 •
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
September 26, 2019 •
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
June 17, 2019 •
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
February 8, 2019 •
In a dark year, citizen science can shine a light on the natural world — and on humanity.
I Used Facial Recognition Technology on Birds
December 7, 2018 •
Birders know you can recognize individual birds. Can a computer scientist train a machine to do so?