How to Use guano in a Sentence

guano

noun

• Dr. Roberts said the team of scientists did not set out to study guano.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017
• Bond kills No and buries him in a guano-loading machine.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 13 June 2022
• But in the 1800s, most of the guano was scraped up by traders and shipped to the United Kingdom as fertilizer.
  — Ryan Truscott, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
• The guano, which is dark enough to see from space, inspired the scientists to use the streaks of excrement to track down the colonies.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
• First of all, any GM, coach or scout who believes this guano shouldn’t be running a Pee Wee team.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
• With fewer bats around, there is half as much guano collected as a decade ago.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2021
• Usually just by seeing them or the piles of guano that are left under their roost site.
  — Margeaux Sippell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• In the view of the guano collectors of Khao Chong Phran, which is not far from the frontier with Myanmar, the anxiety caused by bats is overblown.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2021
• New buds sprang eternal from the guano heap of Twitter, and thus continued the Outrage Circle of Life.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2018
• Most of these were in the guano, not from the swabs, which suggested that the droppings could be a major source of viral transmission.
  — Max Kutner, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020
• Just be prepared: Pack many layers, and expect the smell of penguin guano to linger on clothes long after your trip ends.
  — Teresa Rivas, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
• Their guano adds the nutrient nitrogen to the islands, leading to big changes in the ecosystem.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
• The discoveries were made by spotting the distinctive red-brown guano patches the birds leave on the ice.
  — Mark Harris, Wired, 29 July 2021
• There was storks and vultures kind of roosting along the trees and defecating, so certain trees were covered in guano ...
  — Diana Crow, Smithsonian, 25 July 2017
• There was storks and vultures kind of roosting along the trees and defecating, so certain trees were covered in guano ...
  — Diana Crow, Smithsonian, 25 July 2017
• The cave was first accessed in 1831 by the owner of the surrounding lands, who was looking for bat guano to use as fertilizer, per the study.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• Since the guano produced by the birds eventually kills the nest trees, heron rookeries have a limited life span.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2021
• Around the same time, Vogt was hired to study a baffling decline in seabird guano, then widely used as fertilizer.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Over the last 10 years scientists have been searching for new colonies by studying the penguins' guano -- excrement -- stains on the ice.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 5 Aug. 2020
• While rabies poses a rare threat, bat guano is the most serious concern.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023
• The night roost is a place for the bats to huddle together for warmth and to deposit their guano, which helps prevent predators from tracking them to their day roost.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2019
• Seabirds, for example, nest on an island, forage in the water, and then come back on the land, where their guano fertilizes plants.
  — Devi Lockwood, Wired, 21 Sep. 2021
• Bat guano or infected aerosols were the likely sources of transmission.
  — Judy Stone, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Wherever the guano is, that’s where the cockroaches will be (read: everywhere).
  — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2019
• Their characteristic brown guano can be seen against the backdrop of Antarctic ice even from space.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
• Coaxing a virus that lies dormant in bat guano to grow in a cell culture is difficult, and usually the effort fails.
  — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
• The crew's nightly flight in search of food, once an awe-inspiring festival of guano and flapping wings, was just a skeleton of its former self.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2018
• Pavel Caceres, my taxi driver, explained that the Inca built an extensive network of roads, bringing bird guano and seashells from the coast all the way to the mountains to enrich the soil.
  — National Geographic, 19 July 2019
• The penguins’ guano–aka bird poop–showed up on satellite imagery as a series of dark smudges and allowed researchers to zero in on these new breeding sites.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
• Kreitman describes the history of six island groups that were once alive with sea birds but became barren after hunters killed them off for their plumage and guano miners dug up the landscape.
  — Paul Kreitman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024