At Home on the Ocean
This file appears in: The Seabird and the Trees
In the same family as puffins, marbled murrelets are graceful in the ocean and can dive 20 to 80 meters for fish.
This file appears in: The Seabird and the Trees
The Seabird and the Trees – The Marbled Murrelet is an uncommon seabird with a unique housing strategy
The nesting habits of marbled murrelets were unknown to scientists until an accidental sighting in the 1970s. In 1974, by sheer luck, a Big Basin State Park maintenance worker spotted an odd little bird with webbed feet sitting in an old-growth…