Recently, the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds, Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) and the Bahamas National Trust (BNT) came together in a major effort to assess the seabirds of the Cay Sal Bank.

The Cay Sal Bank, a remote and rarely visited island group in the southwestern corner of the Bahamas archipeligo, is one of the largest atolls in the world. Human inhabitants have established permanent settlements onn only two of the hundreds of cays and rocks on the Bank. Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) instituted a special Science Expedition from May 26th -June 1, 2012 this year to allow scientists and volunteers to estimate the number of breeding seabirds on the Cay Sal Bank.

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