During the first week in southeast Tasmania have worked in two of the shearwater breeding colonies selected for our study: Bruny Island and Tasman Island. These places are not always easily accessible, so at first we had to arrive by ferry and the second island, as I decided a few days before we travel by helicopter. On Bruny Island, just playing one of the species we are looking, thin-billed shearwater (or muttonbird, Puffinus tenuirostris). The nests on the island are located in a sandy isthmus that connects the north and south of the island, extremely fragile, with very deep nests where we had to move carefully to avoid damaging the nests. A heavenly place where one does not mind being shearwater were it not not be unlikely to face one of these animals are terribly poisonous snakes and tigers, which we had occasion to observe in one nest where we ventured put my hand ... A Thereafter we play Russian roulette to see who we had to take the next shearwaters nest, but to be honest, Fernando Ibáñez inspected most huras. From this place we returned with 20 blood samples and feathers. Upon leaving, we went to a viewpoint, where we find that there was a reason to think that this is one of those magical places along there, had thrown the ashes of a native princess, whose life of sacrifice and torture, was finally rewarded with a break in the water from the south.
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