Cusset, Fanny http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6334-7237
Bustamante, Paco
Carravieri, Alice
Bertin, Clément
Brasso, Rebecka
Corsi, Ilaria
Dunn, Michael
Emmerson, Louise
Guillou, Gaël
Hart, Tom
Juáres, Mariana
Kato, Akiko
Machado-Gaye, Ana Laura
Michelot, Candice
Olmastroni, Silvia
Polito, Michael
Raclot, Thierry
Santos, Mercedes
Schmidt, Annie
Southwell, Colin
Soutullo, Alvaro
Takahashi, Akinori
Thiebot, Jean-Baptiste
Trathan, Phil
Vivion, Pierre
Waluda, Claire
Fort, Jérôme
Cherel, Yves http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9469-9489
Article History
Accepted: 11 October 2023
First Online: 25 October 2023
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: In this work, feather sampling relied on several existing monitoring programs and were carried out at all sites under appropriate permits. More specifically, (i) animal handling and sample collection for Australian stations (Mawson, Davis and Casey stations) were approved by the Australian Antarctic Division animal ethics committee and ATEP environmental approvals. (ii) Fieldwork in Adélie Land was approved by the Conseil des Programmes Scientifiques et Technologies Polaires of the Institut Polaire Français Paul Emile Victor (IPEV), and procedures were approved by the Animal Ethics Committee of IPEV. (iii) Fieldwork in Terra Nova Bay was approved under permission released from the Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA). All sampling followed SCAR’s Code of Conduct for the Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes in Antarctica (ExternalRef removed). (iv) The Instituto Antártico Argentino ‒ Dirección Nacional del Antártico (PINST-05) provided financial and logistical support to carry out the Argentine Antarctic campaign. The field work was carried out under the permit granted by the Dirreción Nacional del Antártico (Environmental Management Office). (v) Animal handling and sample collection at Signy Island was approved by the British Antarctic Survey Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Board, and permission was granted by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on behalf of HM Secretary of State, under Sections 12 and 13 of the Antarctic Act, 1994, 2013.