guano in English

noun
1
the excrement of seabirds and bats, used as fertilizer.
Millennia of visiting seabirds left large fossilized guano deposits on Nauru.

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1. Bat guano has also been found to preserve fossils.

2. Guano (phosphate) deposits were exploited from the start of the 20th century until 1970.

3. The United States took possession of the island in 1857, claiming it under the Guano Islands Act of 1856.

4. Speaking of Bat droppings, also known as guano, they are high in potassium nitrate (saltpeter) and are often used as fertilizer

5. Peruvian guano is most Advantageously applied as a top-dressing to young corn and particularly to oats

6. Guano Apes' third studio album, Walking on a Thin Line, was released in March 2003 on BMG and GUN/Supersonic Records

7. Bat colonies in caves, seabirds on coastland) - guano is an example of Allochthonous organic matter (dead organic material formed outside the ecosystem).

8. The saltpeter can also be extracted for use in gunpowder and explosives, and Bat guano was an important resource for that purpose during the American Civil War

9. Both the US and the Kingdom of Hawaii annexed Johnston Atoll in 1858, but it was the US that mined the guano deposits until the late 1880s

10. "Barracoons or barracks for collecting coolie slave labor for shipment to Chincha Guano Islands of Peru." Source identifier: HM (Hades Legacy Identifier / Struc ID) Physical Description

11. In 1890, the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi granted George D. Freeth and Charles N. Spencer permission to mine the guano on Laysan anyway, as long as they paid a royalty.

12. Do Cormorants damage vegetation in rookery areas where large numbers of Cormorants nest? The natural vegetation at all waterbird colonies typically dies from the long term accumulation of guano at the site

13. In 1881, James Garfield took the oath of office in the USA and his anglophobic Secretary of State James G. Blaine was a proponent of an assertive role for the USA in the War of the Pacific ostensibly regarding the interests of promoting US ownership of nitrate and guano concesions.