#marbled murrelet

[northernpintail]

Marbled Murrelet

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Marbled Murrelet

Photo: Eric Ellingson

"A strange, mysterious little seabird. Although it is fairly common off the northern Pacific Coast, its nesting behavior was essentially unknown until the 1970s. In the Pacific Northwest, now known to nest high in trees in old-growth forest several miles inland from coast. Even where numerous, it is usually seen on the water in pairs or aggregations of pairs, not in large flocks; pairs flush from the water in front of approaching boats, fly away low with very rapid wingbeats."

- Audubon Field Guide

[scottpartridge]

I love ur birds so much you capture their vibes so phenomenally! I saw you did the mourning doves based off an ask, if you have more in ya could you do a marbled murrelet?

Glad you like. Here are the Marbled Murrelets. Also, their figures from the AVE (Avian Vector Encyclopedia)

[comparativeoracle]

Marbled Murrelet. Art by Mia Bosna, from the Journey To Rewilding.

Murrelets habitat extends from the Canadian border south to central California. They can live as long as 25 years. To nest, they fly up to 44 miles inland and lay one egg on a large moss-covered branch high up in a coastal temperate rainforest tree. But as old-growth forests have declined, so too has the murrelet, with commercial logging representing the greatest threat to the species, followed by climate change, oil spills and entanglements in gillnets.

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[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

January in Juneau, Alaska

[tinylongwing]

Marbled Murrelet, an enigmatic seabird that nests far from the ocean in the mossy canopies of North America’s pacific coast old-growth rainforest.

[graveyardrabbit]

Marbled Murrelets make tree nests on large, moss- and lichen-covered branches high (usually over 40 feet) above the ground in mature and old-growth coniferous forest, normally in the largest tree in the area… No actual nest is built. The female lays one egg directly onto a mossy branch or on the ground, in a depressed site where the egg is unlikely to roll away…

painted a marbled murrelet egg