12:13pm
July 14, 2016
People
usually do their best to avoid bird poo but a group of researchers has
developed a fascination with the faeces of albatross to try and help save the
threatened seabird species.
Julie
McInnes is leading a study at Hobart's Institute for Marine and Antarctic
Studies, analysing the bird's diet to try and develop conservation and
management strategies.
"There
are very few sites where we can look at long term studies and see if the
albatross diet is changing ... shy albatross in Tasmania stay around their
colony during winter so we have access to the scats year-round and can compare
winter and breeding season diets," Ms McInnes said.
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