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November 6, 2023 64 mins

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 BowersBlue 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



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