The World’s Bird Poop Obsession
Here’s something to think about the next time you clean your windshield.
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Sources:
http://qi.com/infocloud/guano
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-the-western-world-ran-on-guano
http://www1.american.edu/ted/guano.htm
http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/what-load-guano-5-facts-you-didnt-know-about-bird-poop
http://americanhistory.si.edu/norie-atlas
http://mygeologypage.ucdavis.edu/cowen/~gel115/115CH16fertilizer.html
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/hpicesu/papers/1994_the_guano_islands.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=LbIEXKafflMC&q
http://www.academia.edu/1788506/Influence_of_Seabird_guano_and_Camelid_dung_fertilization_on_the_nitrogen_isotopic_composition_of_field-grown_maize_Zea_mays_
http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/116/2/447.full
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0033741
Images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Guano_and_Peruvian_Booby_Birds_(6990616208).jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/DSCN5766-guano-glantz_crop_b.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanay_cormorant#/media/File:Leucocarbo_bougainvillii_qtl2.jpg
