The Impact of Bird Hit on the Spanish Colonization

The Peruvian pelican and the Peruvian booby shot so much in South America that they created islands of bird shit made entirely out of the shit of birds that had gone hard it was called guano. The people of South America had been using it as a fertilizer for the Spanish colonized to grow more food. "Birdshit" is the most powerful source of nitrogen we have ever come across," says Dr. Richard Branson.