Join us for an entertaining evening with Maria Mudd Ruth and the Pigeon Guillemots, the Pacific Coast seabirds at the center of her new book, The Bird with Flaming Red Feet.
The lively, charismatic guillemots are easy and fun to watch close-up from shore, though they are often overlooked by birders seeking more elusive and rarer life-list birds. Why bother learning about this common species, this "accessible alcid," this seabird whose off-putting name makes it sound like a French pigeon?
Pigeon Guillemots have unique and fascinating stories to tell about being a seabird and about the workings of our shared environment. To hear those stories, we have to slow down and listen.
For more than a decade, Maria has studied guillemots as a volunteer community scientist, a curious naturalist, and a writer with "attention surplus disorder." Through the Pigeon Guillemot, she has discovered the joys of getting to know the guillemots on one stretch of Puget Sound beach deeply across the seasons and years. Through a long-running community science program, she has contributed to scientific research and has become part of a community of hundreds of fellow "guillemoteers" devoted to this marvelous seabird across Puget Sound. Her presentation is an invitation to reconnect with the natural world in new ways, to help the birds outside your door, and to have fun along the way.
About the Author
Maria Mudd Ruth is the author of more than a dozen natural history books for readers of all ages, birders and non-birders alike. Her recent books include the critically acclaimed Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet and the award-winning A Sideways Look at Clouds. Maria lives in Olympia, Washington, and is a member of the South Sound Bird Alliance. She has been a volunteer community scientist with the Salish Sea Guillemot Network since 2013. Learn more about Maria at mariaruthbooks.net and about the network at pigeonguillemot.org.
New Location:
Program Nights are moving to Wednesday evenings at the Redmond Library, 15990 NE 85th Street. A year-long agreement with the library gives us their meeting room each month. Doors open at 6 p.m.; the presentation begins at 6:30.
Redmond Public Library
15990 Northeast 85th Street
Redmond, WA, 98052
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