http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2013/02/26/seabird-sampling-strategies-a-tongue-twister/ Our place, our voices Sun, 26 May 2013 01:47:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2013/02/26/seabird-sampling-strategies-a-tongue-twister/#comment-36834 Sat, 11 May 2013 02:14:01 +0000 http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/?p=21014#comment-36834 […] To genetically sex a bird, DNA is first obtained from a blood, feather or tissue sample. We used tongue samples for the prions. […]

]]> http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2013/02/26/seabird-sampling-strategies-a-tongue-twister/#comment-32212 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:39:06 +0000 http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/?p=21014#comment-32212 Thanks for the up date, Lara.
I reckon the mass ‘wrecking’ must be the biggest (non-human) natural disaster in NZ recorded history, involving more individuals of one species than any other. I am glad some good will come out it, by way of the research Te Papa is doing. Do please publish the results.
Geoff Davidson

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