These laws and regulations ban the capture of penguins or their eggs, and any intentional harm done to them. Fertilizers no longer use guano (penguin excrement). After egg and guano harvesting ...

the turbulent din of king penguins calling, fighting, courting, like the ultimate schoolyard uproar. Then the smell hits, a choking reek of fish and ammonia from the birds' guano. But the assault ...

scientists have been looking for new colonies by searching satellite imagery for their guano stains on the ice. There are 66 known emperor penguin colonies, of which half have been identified via ...

Once, the only problem the birds had to deal with from humans was when the birds' droppings or guano were collected to be used as a very useful fertiliser – this could affect the penguins ...

They also collected penguin poo, or guano, and will now analyze it using DNA fingerprinting to reveal what they are eating. Norman Ratcliffe, ecologist at British Antarctic Survey, and project ...

Historically, threats included egg harvesting and guano (penguin excrement) collection but government policies have since put a stop to those. Now, the major challenge to the penguins’ survival ...

Guano stains: A new colony on fast ice that has formed around grounded icebergs Satellite observations have found a raft of new Emperor penguin breeding sites in the Antarctic. The locations were ...

Using the EU's Sentinel-2 satellites, they were able to observe the penguins' activity from the excrement, or guano, they left on the white sea-ice. This brown staining is visible even from space.

or guano, to coral reefs, its value would skyrocket to over $1 billion. Most of this bird poop comes from fast-declining populations of seabirds like the penguins in the Antarctic. Check out the ...

Lorien Pichegru is affiliated with Nelson Mandela University and receives funding from the NRF. Alistair McInnes receives funding from the Charl van der Merwe Trust. He works for BirdLife South ...