🌳🌊 Meet the mysterious Marbled Murrelet, a tree-nesting… seabird?! Nicknamed the “Elevated Auk,” this quail-sized marvel insists on commuting. While most seabirds stick to the ocean, the Marbled Murrelet flies up to 55 miles inland to nest high in old-growth treetops. This wasn't confirmed in modern ornithology until 1974, when one was spotted in a nest 147 feet up a Douglas fir! With mottled chocolate-and-cream feathers, lightning fast wing-flaps, and a habit of producing eerily cute keer cal