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Guano facts for kids
Guano is the excrement (waste product) of bats and birds. It is exceptionally high in nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium, three nutrients essential for plant growth. Therefore it is often used as fertilizer, to make plants grow more quickly.
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The nest of the Peruvian booby is made of almost pure guano.
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The Guanay cormorant has historically been the most important producer of guano.
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Mining guano in the Chincha Islands off the central coast of Peru c. 1860.
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Advertisement for guano, 1884.
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A herring gull (Larus argentatus) excreting waste near Île-de-Bréhat.