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Member Rental: Skipstone Literary Salon: In Conversation with Award-Winning Author Maria Mudd Ruth
Thu, May 21
|Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum
Mountaineers Books
Time & Location
May 21, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
About the Event
Join author Maria Mudd Ruth to discuss her new book, "The Bird with Flaming Red Feet: Seasons with an Uncommonly Common Seabird," a lively and heartfelt natural history of a charismatic seabird with a surprising story to tell—both avian and human.
"I didn't know that laughing while birding was possible." So begins naturalist and award-winning author Maria Mudd Ruth’s new book about the humble yet charming (and chatty) Pigeon Guillemot. Maria will discuss how she became obsessed with one seabird, how getting to know one bird leads you to appreciate all of nature, the impacts of community science, and her failed effort to dig a guillemot burrow with a chopstick.
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