Fun Spout: COLLECTION OF GUANO ON THE COAST OF PERU

COLLECTION OF GUANO ON THE COAST OF PERU

by Ustad | 4:04 AM in best, birds, collecting, droppings, fertilizer, natural, pics |

Thousands of birds on the island of Ballestas, south of Lima, 10 October 2011. Ballestas and 21 island off the coast of Peru, is home to nearly four million migratory birds such as cormorants bougainvillea, boobies and pelicans. From bird excrement made the best natural fertilizer in the world. Bird droppings, also known as guano, reached the highest economic importance in the nineteenth century, when it began exporting to the U.S., Britain and France. Today, with annual production capacity exceeds 20 tons, Peru hopes mainly on orders from small farmers.

Nesting gannets on the island of Ballestas south of Lima, October 9, 2011. The birds nest on the island, leaving behind - not counting the corpses of their relatives - tons of litter. Drought makes him a caustic mixture of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds, potassium oxide and calcium oxide. His name - one of the few words that are borrowed from the world language of the Incas: "guano."

Working with bird droppings scraped rocks, Ballestas Island, south of Lima, October 8, 2011.

Working with bird droppings scraped rocks, Ballestas Island, south of Lima, early morning October 10, 2011.

Typically, mining guano with interruptions. Most islands are untouched for ten years. All this time there lived a lonely watchman who guards the birds. During this time the island covered with a layer thickness of two feet of manure. And then come to work.

All work on the island is done manually. Even during the loading, when you need to carry tons of guano packed, people use classical mechanics: put up a platform, put a cross on it, double rope, the transfer of cargo carried by the hook and gravity.

Workers collect the guano island of Ballestas, south of Lima, October 8, 2011. Significant deposits of guano found in South America (Peru, Bolivia), South Africa (for example, an island off the coast of Namibia Ichabo), the Pacific Islands.

Operating transfers to another bag of guano workers for processing, Ballestas Island, south of Lima, October 8, 2011.

Worker throws a bag from under the guano island of Ballestas, south of Lima, October 8, 2011.

No one knows exactly when mankind began to produce guano. The first entry in the archives of the firm which is engaged in pometodobychey Guanyape Norte, made in 1851. But on some islands of the archipelago, archaeologists found filthy accessories dating from the epoch of the ancestors of the Incas.

In the XIX century, guano was a strategic raw material Peru, the demand for fertilizers grew up around the world.

Bird droppings in the 19th century is so important that the United States in 1856 passed a law under which U.S. citizens can take in his possession any ownerless island if there gadili birds.