The push to save the “potato bird” on B.C’s coast

Deep in the old growth forests on Vancouver Island, a group of citizen scientists, birders and artists gathered this summer to try to catch a glimpse of the secretive Marbled Murrelet, known to some as the “potato bird.” Royann Petrell, Co-Founder of Old Growth Birders and BioBlitzers, talks about her work to document the bird and try to stop the destruction of its habitat.