C-SPAN Cities Tour...includes MaMu

February 2, 2014 Maria Mudd Ruth

On the minds of Olympians: Marbled murrelets and their nesting habitat.  Seen here are two adult murrelets in their summer breeding plumage.  Photo by Glenn Bartley, used with permission. — On the minds of Olympians: Marbled murrelets and their nesting habitat. Seen here are two adult murrelets in their summer breeding plumage. Photo by Glenn Bartley, used with permission.

Here is the web link to C-SPAN's CIties Tour programming on Olympia. The many interviews are posted here individually and you can click on the photo Olympia's logging yard to learn about what's going on with the Marbled Murrelet in Washington State Forests.

For the full story of the fascinating Marbled Murrelet may I recommend you find your way to my book, Rare Bird:Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet. It is available from Mountaineers Books, the usual online sellers, and some interesting places that will not be crowded today (SuperBowl Sunday): Orca Books in Olympia, the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Boston Harbor Marina.

Flying from Mountaineers Books this Spring—the story of the Pigeon Guillemot—the world’s most charismatic alcid. This non-fiction natural history will be on bookshelves and available from online retailers on April 7, 2026. Click a link below to pre-order a copy now from these purveyors:

Mountaineers Books (non-profit, indie publisher based in Seattle)

Browsers Books (Olympia’s indie bookstore)

Bookshop.org (support your local bookstore)

Barnes & Noble (in the book biz since 1971)

Amazon

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Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet

“Compelling… engaging.” —Library Journal

“Rare insights into the trials and joys of scientific discovery.” —Publisher’s weekly

Learn more about Rare Bird...

Enjoy this song by Peter Horne, "Little Bird, Little Boat, Big Ocean.” Written about the Marbled Murrelet, but the lyrics work well for the Pigeon Guillemot, too.