Preparation and Curation of a Collection of Seabirds Salvaged from the New Zealand Long-line Fishery

在西弗特·罗威尔博士的指导下，华盛顿大学获得了一笔赠款，以部分支持伯克博物馆的一项工作，即准备、编目和收藏333只海鸟，这些海鸟是过去十年来作为新西兰延绳钓渔业的副渔获物而打捞上来的。副渔获物死亡率对许多管鼻鸟的种群产生了严重影响，如信天翁和剪尾鸟。由于它们的数量减少，打捞是可能获得此类鸟类研究系列的唯一途径。这笔赠款将用于支付与准备新标本相关的费用，包括一名熟练的制作者、学生助理和一名收集经理的劳动力。除了皮肤和骨骼的准备，所有的标本都将有一个相关的延伸翅膀和冷冻组织标本。存档保存这些新标本所需的材料包括两个新标本、骨架盒和组织样本管。将这些标本添加到世界收藏品中将对研究和教育做出重要贡献，主要原因有几个。首先，很少有博物馆开发出大量延长的翅膀收藏，所以那些与这些标本相关的收藏将构成世界馆藏的主要补充，并可能成为这些物种中许多物种保存的第一个翅膀。Burke的大型研究系列翅膀在世界上是独一无二的，这些翅膀对于推断大型鸟类的飞行羽毛更换规则是绝对必要的，也被插图画家大量使用。其次，新西兰没有一家博物馆保存纸巾收藏。因此，该项目将生产第一大套南半球海鸟的组织，这些组织将由一个致力于向世界各地的研究人员提供这些组织的机构永久存档。最后，这个收藏中的213具骨骼将使世界上6个物种的持有量增加25%-50%，并将为伯克的收藏增加10个新物种。此外，对于这个收藏中的许多物种来说，世界上大多数骨骼都在美国以外，这使得伯克博物馆储存的骨骼对美国科学家来说特别有价值，因为它们更容易获得。收藏品赠款的广泛影响是多方面的，因为收藏品的用户群体非常广泛。我们的收藏越来越多地服务于国内和国际学者社区，以及华盛顿大学充满活力的本科生和高级培训项目。由于标本是我们关于过去种群和灭绝血统的新数据的唯一来源，改善它们长期护理的项目对社会具有巨大的潜在好处。除了原创研究，我们的藏品还服务于多样化的用户群体，包括州和联邦机构、各种地区保护和教育团体、野生动物艺术家和雕塑家的大型社区，以及通过大学和伯克博物馆提供的越来越多的K-12教育推广项目。

A grant has been awarded to the University of Washington under the direction of Dr. Sievert Rohwer for the partial support of an undertaking by the Burke Museum to prepare, catalog, and house a collection of 333 seabirds, salvaged as by-catch over the past decade from the long-line fishing industry in New Zealand. By-catch mortality has had a serious impact on populations of many tube-nosed birds, such as albatrosses and shearwaters. Due to their population declines, salvage is the only way research series of such birds are likely to be obtained. This grant will cover costs associated with preparing the new specimens, including labor for a skilled preparator, student assistants, and a collection manager. In addition to skin and skeleton preparations, all of the specimens will have an associated extended wing and frozen tissue specimen. Materials needed for archival storage of these new specimens include two new cases, skeleton boxes, and tubes for tissue samples.There are several principle reasons why adding these specimens to the world's collections will make an important contribution to research and education. First, few museums have developed large collections of extended wings, so those associated with these specimens will constitute a major addition to world holdings, and likely will be the first wings preserved for many of these species. The Burke is unique in the world for its large research series of wings, which are absolutely essential to deducing the rules of flight feather replacement for large birds and are also heavily used by illustrators. Second, no museum in New Zealand maintains a tissue collection. Thus, this project will produce the first large set of tissues from Southern Hemisphere seabirds that will have been permanently archived by an institution with a commitment to making them available to researchers throughout the world. Finally, the 213 skeletons from this collection will increase world holdings by = 25-50% for six species and will add 10 new species to the Burke's collections. Additionally, for many species in this collection, the majority of the world's skeletons are outside the US, making skeletons stored at the Burke particularly valuable to US scientists because of their greater accessibility. The broader impacts of collections grants are multifold because the community of users of collections is very broad. Increasingly, our collections serve a national and international community of scholars, as well as a vibrant program of undergraduate and advanced training at the University of Washington. Because specimens are our sole source of new data about past populations and extinct lineages, projects that improve their long-term care have huge potential benefits to society. Beyond original research, our collections serve a diverse community of users, including state and federal agencies, all manner of regional conservation and educational groups, a large community of wildlife artists and sculptors, and a growing program of K-12 educational outreach offered through the University and the Burke Museum.