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Cash Value. The company looks on its birds as cheap and willing workers for the national good. Each guanay, it figures, eats 240 lbs. of anchovetas a year, processing its catch into 33 lbs. of guano. Twenty-two of the 33 lbs. is harvestable; the rest is lost, mostly at sea. The cash value of each bird's annual production is $1.04, and the company is the guardian of 30 million birds...
Most important guano bird is the guanay (a kind of cormorant), a highly efficient mechanism for catching the fish that swarm in Peruvian waters and turning them into fertilizer. Each guanay eats about 60 small fish a day and deposits annually some five kilos (11 Ibs.) of guano. Steamers passing the Chincha Islands are forbidden to blow their whistles lest the birds take off, fertilizing the sea. The guanayes have a bad habit of flying low after their takeoff, and their tailfeathers brush guano off the cliffs. Señor Llosa is ringing the steep-sided islands with walls...
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