Acknowledgments
We thank the University of La Rochelle (ULR) for funding LT PHD, and the
ULR and CEBC molecular core facilities for lab support. We also thank
the Parc Naturel Regional de la Martinique and the DEAL Martinique for
help and funding of the research program on shearwaters. Blood samples
of Audubon’s shearwaters of St Barth were obtained with the agreement of
Agence Territoriale de l’Environnement de Saint-Barthélémy. We are also
grateful to the Direção Nacional do Ambiente of Cape Verde, the Cabildo
de Lanzarote and Gobierno de Canarias of Spain, and the Direcção
Regional do Ambiente from Azores of Portugal for permission and
logistical support in conducting fieldwork in the respective countries
and to the Spanish Government (CGL2009-11278/BOS, CGL2013-42585-P,
CGL2016-78530-R) and Fondos FEDER for funding. We warmly thank
Pierre-André Crochet, Sarah Samadi and Joan Ferrer-Obiol for great
comments on previous draft that very much improved our manuscript.