Manrico Sebastiano

Manrico Sebastiano

Jun 21, 2021

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I am extremely grateful for your support!!!

If this frigatebird chick flies it's all because of you...

With this post I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the supporters and all the people who have donated to this project.

By backing this project you are contributing to the conservation of this magnificent and iconic seabird.

I will soon make another post to update you on how the project is going, and the latest developments on the preparation of the fieldwork that will take place in a few weeks.

You've already done so much, but if possible, I'd like to ask a little bit more: please consider sharing this project on social media, among your family and friends, and explain to them how a small donation (of even 1$) can mean so much to this project and the conservation of this seabird.

Thank you all very much!


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About This Project

A novel herpesvirus likely indigenous to the magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) has been linked to episodes of mass mortality of chicks from the Grand Connétable Nature Reserve, a small island in French Guiana. In this colony, around 90% of chicks die each year after showing clinical signs of infection. We hypothesize that these episodes of mass juvenile mortality result from environmental pollutants altering the physiology and parental behaviour of adult frigatebirds.

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