Castillo-Guerrero, José Alfredo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5922-9342
González-Medina, Erick https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9748-8641
Piña-Ortiz, Alberto https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6871-9041
Betancourt-Lozano, Miguel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7267-4993
García-Hernández, Jaqueline https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5251-0526
Hernández-Vázquez, Salvador
Fernández, Guillermo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8478-5575
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza A.C. (PIE-2012-A-P-C-IGSI-12-12)
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (I010/176/2012)
Article History
Accepted: 6 January 2025
First Online: 13 January 2025
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The fieldwork, including wildlife management and sampling collection, was carried out with permission from the Dirección General de Vida Silvestre (DGVS, Mexico) under the permits SGPA/DGVS/62712/12 and SGPA/DGVS/02923/13. We complied with all applicable institutional and/or national guidelines for the welfare and conservation of wildlife. The seabirds were not handled for more than 10 min in this study, and the smallest amount of blood was drawn for each individual. While the adults were sampled, we cared for their eggs and chicks until their parents returned to the nest.