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Friday, February 29, 2008 12:00 AM

When guano imperialists ruled the earth

The Industrial Revolution spelled doom for Peru's finest organic fertilizer. But bird dung will fly again!
Andrew Leonard

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  • Friday, February 29, 2008 03:17 PM

    Booby "stuff"

    In 1972, working with Encyclopedia Britannica Films, I did the sound (and narrated) a film "The Bird Who is a Clown" on the Booby. I thought that was ancient history, the guano islands harvesting, but recall the dropping covered islands off Ecuador with fondness now that the subject has come up here. Blue-footed Boobies, the name conjuring up grade school giggling, are neat little birds. Well, not "neat" in as much as they leave a very slippery trail of "stuff" wherever they migrate.

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