During its nesting season, the marbled murrelet, known affectionately among bird watchers as a “strange, mysterious little seabird,” lays a single egg in the thick mosses that grow on the branches of British Columbia’s old-growth forest canopy.
With some of those forests under threat from logging, the small black-and-brown mottled seabird is considered threatened, too.
The marbled murrelet is among a growing number of migratory species animals facing a perilous future, a new UN report found.
“The solution for the marbled murrelet and for a number of other migratory species is habitat protection,” said Shelley Luce, campaign director of Sierra Club.
“Loss of habitat is
