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Maria Mudd-Ruth

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Aug 20, 2026

SusanGUEST
41:15
Yeah.
41:16
So two weeks ago when I saw twice a bird fly in, another one circled around, touched beaks, passed it off.
41:23
If I hadn't been watching them so close, they would have missed it.
41:26
And then it happened again, and that was to one of these burrows down here.
41:30
Really? Yeah.
41:32
So a mid-air handoff or on the water? No, on the water.
41:34
On the water, okay.

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SusanGUEST
50:21
So we have enough people now that we can just rotate people in, and we always have a good, solid team to cover the burros.
Kat SmithADVERTISER
8:09
Yeah.
8:10
The vocalizations, I think that must be, that's my pride and my joy for this book, is to take what was a very dry scientific paper from the 1980s describing the guillemot's vocalizations.
8:23
They're very vocal birds, a huge repertory of trills and whistles and calls with very specific meanings that they pair with very specific postures.
8:34
So you can, if you're watching the guillemots, look at their body language, listen for the call and say, oh, that one is trying to attract a mate.
8:44
That one is defending a territory.
8:46
That one is angry.
8:48
This one is about ready to fly.

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16:57
And then we're going to get into how folks can also participate in just going out and seeing them for themselves.

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