Sponsored by the Portland Audubon Society, Sierra Club/Many Rivers Group Chapter, Lane County Audubon Chapter.

Please join on us in learning about the hidden world of a secretive seabird. The Marbled Murrelet is a threatened seabird that inhabits Oregon’s coastal areas and can nest >40 miles inland within older forests, making it especially challenging for researchers to understand its breeding ecology. In this presentation Dr. Jim Rivers, lead scientist for the Oregon Marbled Murrelet Project, will discuss why murrelets are so unique, outline what it takes to locate active murrelet nests, and share recent findings from the project. To learn more about the Oregon Marbled Murrelet Project, please visit www.oregonmurrelet.org/

The Marbled Murrelet is a threatened seabird that inhabits Oregon’s coastal areas and can nest >40 miles inland within older forests, making it especially challenging for researchers to understand its breeding ecology.

Join Dr. Jim Rivers, lead scientist for the Oregon Marbled Murrelet Project, to learn why murrelets are so unique, what it takes to locate active murrelet nests, and recent findings from the project.

Learn more about the project at oregonmurrelet.org.

The 5th annual Willamette Valley Bird Symposium (WVBS) will be held on Saturday, January 19, 2019 at Oregon State University. We hope you will join us for one of our biggest and best symposia to date.