Whether you’re a birder or not, you’ll be charmed by a lively and charismatic Pigeon Guillemot. These Pacific coast seabirds are common, easy to spot, and fun to watch close-up from shore, though they are often overlooked by birders seeking more elusive and rarer life-list birds (such as their more famous cousins, the puffins). Pigeon Guillemots have unique and fascinating stories to tell about being a seabird and about the workings of our shared environment. And, lucky for us, they tell them loud and clear. Since 2013, Maria has been watching and listening to the guillemots nesting on Puget Sound near Olympia as a volunteer community scientist with the Salish Sea Guillemot Network.  Q&A plus book sales and signing.

Join author Maria Mudd Ruth as she shares what she’s learned about the guillemots, about “one-bird birding,” and the community of “guillemoteers” devoted to this marvelous seabird.