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Osprey Nest Cam Creates Bird Celebrities—And Fans THE NEWSLETTER OF THE GOLDEN GATE AUDUBON SOCIETY // VOL. 101 NO. 3 SUMMER 2017 OSPREY NEST CAM CREATES BIRD CELEBRITIES—AND FANS by ilana debare hen Golden Gate Audubon Society W launched the Bay Area’s first live- streaming Osprey nest cam this spring, our video feeds opened an intimate window into the life of one Osprey family. They also turned tens of thousands of people into avid new bird watchers—creating a broader- than-ever constituency to help us protect Bay Area birds and their habitat. CONTINUED on page 5 Osprey pair on the Whirley Crane in 2015. Lee Aurich Jr. Regional Shoreline—property that our GGAS advocacy had saved twenty years ago. Meanwhile, GGAS has been working with the City of Oakland, developers, and biological consultants on a comprehensive plan to optimize sites at Lake Merritt so that these remarkable birds will have safer places than downtown streets to raise their young in future seasons. Our several years of heron outreach have inspired love for #OaklandHerons in myr- iad delightful forms. Third graders at Park Day School launched an online petition to declare Black-crowned Night-Herons the official bird of Oakland. These young- sters even made two brief films as public Lea ZalinskisLea One of Oakland’s new library card designs. service announcements! Plus, local artist Lea Zalinskis, daughter of a GGAS volun- teer, won the Oakland Public Library Card HURRAY FOR HERONS, Design contest with her charming Black- AND THE BIRD LOVE THEY INSPIRE Crowned Night-Heron hand-cut paper by cindy margulis, executive director creation. Our vibrant heron chalk-art “flash mobs” in 2015 and 2016 inspired Presidio Trust to ozens of precious young herons Bay Area’s largest breeding concentration of partner with Golden Gate Audubon for a d and egrets were saved this season, these birds to raise their young. Nonethe- sidewalk chalk art event celebrating birdlife thanks to terrific teamwork by Golden less, more than 130 pairs of Black-Crowned of the Presidio this summer! The Presidio Gate Audubon Society volunteers and our Night Herons, plus about twenty pairs of has planned a series of public walks to dis- conservation allies: Oakland Zoo and Inter- Snowy Egrets, nest there. cover diverse birds and habitats and to tour national Bird Rescue. When a GGAS monitor sees an injured the sidewalk chalk bird art. Artists’ sidewalk In February, I trained twelve volunteer heron or a pre-fledgling stranded on the chalk bird renderings will still be visible monitors to collect data on the heron and pavement, they notify the Oakland Zoo, when we open our expanded Centennial egret rookery and to keep a lookout daily for which sends an on-call trained animal han- Exhibit at the Tides Thoreau Center in the any injured or stranded young herons in the dler to rescue the bird and transfer it to Presidio, running July 12 – September 29. “concrete jungle” beneath the non-native International Bird Rescue for longer term Come view the exhibit, admire the chalk trees in the downtown corridor and Chi- rehabilitative care. With our allies, we’ve art, and rejoice that birds are such a gor- natown areas of Oakland. This intensely already released several of the rehabbed geous way to bring people together in our urban location is less than optimal for the birds into a wetland at Martin Luther King communities. NEWS BRIEFS Pier 94 BioBlitz finds Five years of Snowy Plover Bring 100 for 100 Are you getting our emails? 168 species habitat help Celebrate GGAS’s Centennial If you’re not receiving our monthly Pier 94, the former dump site we’re 2017 marks five years of our monthly by helping us grow! The first 100 Field Trip and e-Gull email restoring as wetlands, held its first beach clean-ups at Crissy Field in San current members who recruit a newsletters, you’re missing out on BioBlitz in May. We found 168 Francisco. GGAS volunteers have put friend to join GGAS will receive lots of great birding events. Send species of flora and fauna, including in 700 hours and removed over 250 enamel pins with our Centennial your name and email to ggas@ 40 bird species. Hats off to our buckets of trash, making the beach logo – one for you and one for your goldengateaudubon.org to ensure volunteers who are turning this Port safer for theatened Snowy Plovers friend. Great way to share your love you get advance notice of upcoming of San Francisco site into flourishing and other shorebirds. Join us! See of birding. See goldengateaudubon. classes, bird walks, birding tours, habitat. goldengateaudubon.org/volunteer. org/bring100-info. and other events. 2 THE GULL SUMMER 2017 FEATURES Ilana DeBareIlana Left: Jack Dumbacher shows Birdathon participants the bird skin collection at California Academy of Sciences. Above: GGAS members on a South Bay Birdathon trip to Calero County Park. The top first-time Birdathon fundraiser was Marjorie Powell, who had never raised money before but brought in a whopping $550! Marj emailed her friends about our Oakland heron rescue program. Then she went on the Behind the Scenes at International Bird Rescue Birdathon trip, where she got to see some of the rescued herons as they recovered in IBR’s good care. Afterwards, she Jack Ryder sent a follow-up letter to her donors with photos from the IBR trip. Not only did she raise money…she raised awareness BIRDATHON 2017: about the plight of Oakland herons and about our great FROM THE PINNACLES TO PIXAR rescue partnership with IBR and Oakland Zoo. by ilana debare Both the fundraising and birding winners were honored on May 13 at a delightful Birdathon Awards Celebration at the home of board member Carol Baird About 250 irdathon 2017, Golden Gate Audubon Society’s and Alan Harper. Birdathon b biggest fundraiser of the year, boasted our most The Best Bird award went to Dan and Joan Murphy’s diverse array of field trips ever. team for a rare Eurasian Green-winged Teal on the Pen- participants Throughout April, over 250 Birdathon participants insula. The prize for most birds in six hours went to raised over visited classic birding destinations such as Pinnacles Bob Power and his Alameda County team (116 species), National Park (condors!), the Presidio, and Point Reyes. while most birds in 24 hours went to Dave Riensche and $61,000 They also visited more unusual sites—such as Liver- his East Bay Parks team (168 species). despite a more Valley for a day that combined birding with wine We also announced the winners of our prestigious challenging tasting, and Pixar, for a private screening with the 2017 Elsie Roemer Conservation Award and Paul Covel director of Piper, the Oscar-winning short animation Education Award. The Roemer award went to Tony fundraising about a young sandpiper. Brake for his work documenting the spread of nesting year. We even sponsored our firstBirds and Chocolate trip, Ospreys along the Bay shoreline. which combined viewing shorebirds in breeding plum- The Covel award went to Eddie Bartley, Jack Dum- age along the Alameda shoreline with a blind tasting of bacher and Bob Lewis—founders and instructors of gourmet chocolates! the Master Birding class that GGAS co-sponsors with Despite a challenging fundraising year with many California Academy of Sciences. Over the past four competing demands on people’s charitable giving, years, about 80 birders deepened their ornithological Birdathon participants raised or donated over $61,000, knowledge through the intense year-long class. Thanks exceeding our goal of $60,000. to the class’s community service requirement, they also The top individual fundraiser for the the third year formed a new generation of leaders for GGAS and other in a row was Dan Harris, who raised $2,795 from 50 local conservation groups. donors! The second place fundraising award went to Help us organize Birdathon 2018! Email Ilana at Bruce Mast, while third place went to Eric Schroeder. [email protected]. Have a favorite birding site you’d like to share? Contact [email protected]. SUMMER 2017 THE GULL 3 SPEAKER SERIES SONGS OF CITY LOCATION / DATE San Francisco SPARROWS Thursday, August 17 jenny phillips 6:30 p.m. refreshments 7 p.m. program Scientists have found that many birds alter the pitch or duration of their songs in areas with a lot of urban noise. But how and why do their songs change? Wildlife biologist Jenny Phillips will address the vocalizations of urban White-crowned Sparrows, and whether ambient noise affects how sparrows respond to each others’ songs. Jenny Phillips, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Fresno, received her PhD from Tulane University. As part of her dissertation, she compared songs of male White- Bob Lewis crowned Sparrows in urban, noisy San Hooded Mountain-Tanager in Peru. Francisco and rural, quieter Point Reyes National Seashore. Jenny Phillips PERUVIAN LOCATION / DATE Berkeley PEREGRINATIONS Thursday, July 20 bob lewis 6 p.m. Annual Meeting LOCATION / DATE and refreshments UNLIKELY URBAN Berkeley 7 p.m. program ENVIRONMENTS Thursday, September 21 Peru is a land of many habitats, from the dry Tumbas in the north- ann riley 6:30 p.m. refreshments 7 p.m. program west and the high Andes mountains running down the center of the country, to the Amazonian forests and rivers in the east. During two trips, we had a chance to examine the avian inhabitants of each of Over the past 30 years, the East Bay has pioneered a growing move- these regions. We’ll discuss evolution, speciation, and the impact ment to restore very degraded riparian corridors, including digging of geological upheavals while focusing on hummingbirds, and then up streams buried underground in culverts.
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