Albatross and petrel sample bank expanded by 57.5%
Brazil’s National Bank of Biological Samples of Albatrosses and Petrels (Baap) - managed by the Albatross Project and located in Florianópolis, in the state of Santa Catarina - ended the year 2022 with a 57.5 percent increase in the volume of samples available for consultation by researchers.Working in a structured way since 2018, it currently accounts for 10,000 biological samples from 39 species of these endangered seabirds, including blood, organs, gonads, bones, bacterial culture, parasites, skin, feathers, and various other tissues. The goal is to collect, catalog, and offer materials that will help researchers conserve these oceanic birds that come to Brazil to feed outside the breeding season.The ornithologist responsible for Baap, Alice Pereira, technical consultant of the Alba...