What rare bird has stopped seven logging projects in Oregon? If you're assuming it's the northern spotted Owl, you're wrong. A high-pitched call belongs to the marbled murrelet. It’s a threatened ...

Possibly the most mysterious American seabird, the Kittlitz's murrelet nests in remote, solitary places high in rugged coastal mountains and has always been difficult to spot — in fact, since the ...

ASHLAND - A crowd was growing Monday afternoon on the Lake Superior shore a few miles east of Ashland. From two to four to now eight, avid bird watchers hurriedly gathered and pointed their spotting ...

Rich McIntosh/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service After a deadlocked 3-3 vote, Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 4-2 Friday to elevate the marbled murrelet from a "threatened" species to ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife will keep the Pacific Northwest population of the marbled murrelet on its list of threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The agency's action ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — If you head over to Chickamunga Lake in Chattanooga, you'll find a group of birdwatchers waiting for a "once in a lifetime shot," birdwatcher Robert McCoy said. "I started birding ...

Never heard of the marbled murrelet? Perhaps that's because the species has been in decline for the past two decades. In fact, the seabirds are so imperiled that the Oregon Department of Fish and ...

Radar surveys: One method used to count Marbled Murrelets in specific watersheds is radar surveys. Radar is a tool for locating objects using high frequency radio waves. Radio waves are emitted by the ...

On an August morning in 1974, a California tree surgeon named Hoyt Foster was 170 feet up a Douglas-fir, trimming storm-damaged branches, when he found himself face-to-beak with a fuzzy, robin-sized ...