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“White Gold,” or seabird guano fertilizer, is found to have boosted agricultural systems in the pre-Inca civilizations of South America who inhabited Chile’s hellish Atacama Desert. Seabird and bat guano (excrement) is a prized source of N-P-K, (Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium) and those gardeners among you will know that these three chemicals are essential in a […]
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Storm-driven tropical seabird discovered in Wellfleet, Massachusetts
September 28th, 2017 
Awake Goy Wild Care staff is working to save a rare tropical seabird found Tuesday at LeCount Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, after it was apparently blown ashore by Tropical Storm Jose, according to a statement from the wildlife rehabilitation hospital. Wild Care received a call about what was originally believed to be an injured gannet at […]
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No Comments »Hurricane Irma swept seabird half-way across the world; found at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
September 15th, 2017 Awake Goy Tropical Storm Irma didn’t just wash up giant buoys to the beaches of Hilton Head Island. It also brought a bird typically found only on far-away islands in the Mediterranean Sea or off the coast of Africa. Island residents Sherry Goff and Joe Murray were walking in the sand Monday afternoon near the Sea […]
Almost all seabirds are eating plastic
September 1st, 2015 Awake Goy Ninety per cent of the planet’s seabirds are having plastic for dinner, a new study has found. The findings are from the first global assessment of plastic ingestion by seabirds, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Toothbrushes, cigarette lighters, bottle caps and even a doll’s arm are just […]
