Episode 3: The Independent Order of Marbled Murrelet Detectives COASTERS

Thirty years ago, a fish scientist, an amateur ornithologist, a 12 year old and a German student volunteer walked into some very old woods on the Sunshine Coast. Then they made history.
COASTERS is a podcast miniseries about community and the small stories that define us. Taking place on the Sunshine Coast, BC, territory of the shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nations.
Show Notes
Paul Jones wrote The Marbled Murrelets of the Caren Range and Middlepoint Bight
Maria Mudd Ruth wrote Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet
Learn more about Kim Nelson’s contributions to the study of marbled murrelets
Marbled murrelets are also linked to Clayoquot Sound protests
Coast News story about marbled murrelets and the Caren Range
More about Volker Bahn’s research
Alan Burger’s contributions to the study of marbled murrelets
Credits
Marbled murrelet field recordings by Thomas G. Sander from the  Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
3-Square-Miles is a documentary produced by Suzanne Wilson for Coast Cable 11
Varied thrush sound effect by BBC Sound Effects
Music by James Bowers, Blue Dot Sessions and Volker Bahn
Special thanks to Dr. Alan Burger and Steve Sleep for research and archival help
Rachel Sanders, Lorna Richards and Sean Eckford assisted with story
Website and graphics by Laura Service

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.