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Marbled Murrelet & Rare Bird Talks

November 6, 2013 Maria Mudd Ruth
Illustration by Paul Harris Jones from Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet 

Illustration by Paul Harris Jones from Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet 

My upcoming presentations feature not only book sales and signing of Rare Bird, but also a virtual experience of a marbled murrelet in the old-growth forest, how and why I wrote Rare Bird despite m ignorance, the life history of this forest-nesting seabird, my very short story of the 185-year-long search to find this bird's nest, some inconvenient truths, exposure of my personal hypocrisy, some hard questions, and some shockingly easy things you can do to help save this imperiled bird.  

Here is the rundown of November's presentations in Greater Puget Sound:

November 8 at 7 p.m. at Orca Books, Olympia

November 12 at 7 p.m. at the Cotton Building, Port Townsend

November 14 at the Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, Seattle

November 17 at 4 p.m. at Village Books, Bellingham (Fairhaven)

November 22 at 5:30 p.m. at Trimble Hall, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma

For more detail, go to my events page here.

 

 

 

 

Tags Rare Bird, orca books, seattle mountaineers, village books, university of puget sound, north cacades insitute
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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


A Sideways Look at Clouds from Mountaineers Books

A Sideways Look at Clouds from Mountaineers Books

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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

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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.


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