One of our goals is to find and monitor roosts of Purple Martins in Brazil. Since 2019 we have visited this island where we have captured some individuals for sampling of biological materials and equipped them with locators.
Canopy of a tree at the island, submerged by the flood of the Rio NegroMotus Tags to detect Purple Martins in the coming yearsMale Purple Martin individualCaptured individual with leg band from Connecticut – USASaliva collection for virus analysis