Portia Halbert, California State Parks Environmental Scientist, tells the tale of the marvelous and mysterious marbled murrelet, an endangered seabird that prefers to nest in the canopies of old-growth trees such as redwoods here in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

To keep up to date with Portia Halbert’s resources and research on marbled murrelets, go to her blog: parks.ca.gov/mamu

April 2021