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The article presents questions and answers related to science including the possible evolutionary advantages of perimenopausal hot flushes, evidence of the existence of time, and reason behind the color of bird droppings.

Why does my dog enjoy rolling in smelly fox or bird faeces? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the author discusses that electricity grids are facing an all-out avian bombardment. Topics include the first major assault occurred in California in 1923, along transmission lines between the Big Creek hydroelectric plant and the city of Los Angeles, California, and the finding that this was caused by bird faeces which are electrically conductive.

Considering all the things birds eat, why are their droppings mostly white? (continued) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering all the things birds eat, why are their droppings mostly white? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering all the things birds eat, why are their droppings mostly white? John Bastable , Cambridge, UK [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents real and fake news stories from around the world. Real stories include the battle between Peru and Spain over islands covered in bird feces, the hitchBOT hitchhiking robots that traveled more than 3,700 miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria in Canada, and a device that converts electrical currents moving across a plant's surface into sound. The fake ones include a city built on the seafloor off China's southern coast and a head lice infestation in outer space.

The article presents photographs of a variety of subjects including a Hawaiian green sea turtle, moths in Ontario and an island in Peru where bird droppings known as guano are harvested for fertilizer.

The article discusses the populations of double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) that have been growing steadily in the U.S. While some individuals consider the population boom to be an indicator of environmental health and species vitality, others fear that the birds may be overrunning their ecological niche. For instance, members of the Avalonia Land Conservancy have found that the birds' feces kill trees and groundcover and may be pushing other species, such as the snowy egret, out of habitats. The author observes the population history of the cormorants, including anthropogenic influences. Also discussed are the ethical and economic aspects of cormorant control.

The article focuses on the excrement problem caused by the large number of vultures that have settled in Leesburg, Virginia. They filled the pines until boughs sheared off with their collective weight. The roost trees were slathered in excrement, and on cooler days the vultures skulked on the gravestones of a small cemetery, sliming the markers with their feces. Black vultures are exploiting urbanizing landscapes due to an increase in food sources such as roadkill and, from all indications, a warmer environment provided by the growing acres of asphalt and concrete.

The article explores techniques for keeping birds away from public recreational spaces. In addition to the aesthetic nuisance of bird droppings, the spreading of diseases like histoplasmosis is a reason to protect public spaces from birds. Suggested strategies for prevention include the use of noisemakers, netting, spikes and chemical repellents.

The article deals with the use of bird droppings to discover places around the world. The guano found its way to fields across Great Britain, where farmers cautiously experimented. One of the first to report their findings was James Johnston, professor of chemistry at Durham University. His 20-page article, On Guano, published in the 1841 Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, reported favorably on the results tram five farms where guano was tested against traditional manure, Farmers were encouraged to try it out for themselves in a scientific manner and to decide whether it was for them. INSET: The Navassa Island revolt.

This article presents a comparison of school equipment, including the Bird Spike 2000, Pilot Rock trash and recycling receptacle holders, the Command Point 72XR High Power Transmitter Series from Primex Wireless, the i-Que standalone access-control system from Marks USA and the Super Durable Finish from P&G Pro Line.

Presents information on several topics and lessons that will help students think about the importance of keeping earth healthy in the U.S. in April 2005. Efforts to save threatened sea otters off the coast of California; Impact of budget cuts to freshwater supply; Use of turkey droppings as power plants; Pros and cons of using aluminum.

Investigates the contribution of feral pigeon excrement to the corrosion of calcerous building materials. Susceptibility of limestone to acid attack; Illustration of the main natural process of weathering for limestone; Potential of droppings to transmit disease to the operatives that remove them and to people nearby.

Provides information on the economic aspects of extracting sea bird guano or bird dropping remains in order to create organic fertilizers in Peru. Sustainable management of natural resource; Habitat and breeding of sea birds; Bird conservation project of Guano Management Co.; Effect of El Nino on the bird population.

The article presents questions and answers related to birds including one on the substance produced by pigeons and doves to feed for the nestlings, another one on nestling's droppings, and one on the poison contamination on birds due to the food they eat.

The article discusses the bird-dung crab spider's (Phrynarachne ceylonica's) mimicking of bird droppings so as a deceptive defense to prevent predation from birds.

This article discusses the use of purple martins to halt erosion of the barrier islands. These birds not only drop a good amount of natural fertilizer, which would help the dunes, they also eat insects. To let the birds do the work, the plan involves fertilizing rather than seeding. Coastal beaches and especially barrier islands are subject to erosion, both the steady lateral transport of sand and the explosive change wrought by storms. The dunes behind the beach are the land's first line of defense, ramparts against the sea. Dune grasses will seed themselves naturally. Human also plant them, plugging clumps in bare dunes in the hope they will take. Pawleys Island is lined with purple martin houses, both the apartment houses so common father north and arrays of gourds hung from yardarms on a pole. According to a hypothesis, the martins provide enough continuing fertilization through their droppings to account for the lush vegetation. Having martins fertilize the dunes is as attractive an idea as having trushes reseed the coastal forests of Brazil. It is not clear that the martins would make any difference to the dunes. More has been claimed for them in the past than they actually deliver. For martins to really put a dent in mosquito populations, it is argued that they would have to be present in hug numbers when a hatch of mosquitoes first emerges.

Focuses on the Mountain Home investigation to determine how and where the children in the Arkansas town of Mountain Home had come into contact with histoplasmosis, a fungus usually spread by bird droppings. Symptoms of the disease; Medical team involved in the investigation; Highlights of the investigation.

Reports on pigeons in Great Britain found with radioactivity in their droppings. The destruction of pigeons who became contaminated at the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria; High levels of radioactivity found in birds roosting at the home of Jane and Barrie Robinson; Evidence of other animals infected with radioactivity.

Focuses on guano producing birds of Peru. Climatic condition of Peru which preserves bird guano of the nation; Role of Peruvian birds to aid world's agriculture industry; Sources of food for the guano producing birds of Peru; Features of nests built by the guano producing birds of the nation.

The article offers a look at how bird droppings in Macabí Island, Peru helped farmers on the island.

A study to find out by analysing droppings from the migratory birds that return to Queensland's Heron Island each summer, whether they are helping to spread the H5N1 bird flu devastating east Asian poultry flocks and whether those birds could carry it as far as Australia, could be delayed for a year by bureaucratic wrangling. Renowned flu expert Graeme Laver, formerly of the Australian National University, planned to collect fresh droppings using no more than a plastic sheet. This week he received a permit from the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, only to be told by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries that he will be liable for prosecution unless he gets approval from the department's animal ethics committee, which could take months. Graeme claims that authorities fear finding H5N1 will deter tourists, while they say they are merely following rules.

Penguins are talented birds. They not only survive extreme temperatures, waddle vast distances and dive to extraordinary depths, it has emerged that they are one of nature's super-poopers. The birds are capable of expelling their faeces with extreme force, helping them avoid fouling both their feathers and their nests. Researchers Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow and Jozsef Gal of International University Bremen in Germany took on the unenviable task of studying penguin excretion by observing and photographing the birds from a distance.

Reports that researchers have found high levels of radioactivity in bird droppings and plants on an island close to the Arctic. Assessment of radiation risks to human health and ecosystems; Concentration of radioactive isotopes in guano; Process explaining the entry of radioactive isotopes in food chain.

The article recognizes the efforts that protect sea birds whose droppings make a high-grade fertilizer called guano in Peru. Compania Administradora del Guano is an organization which was set up in 1909 to protect the guano birds against human egg robbers, hunters, and their natural enemies. Security measures, such as prohibition of passing ships to blow their whistles, are always maintained. Because of these efforts, the birds have increased from 77,000 tons in 1909 to 240,800 tons in 1950.

The article offers information in dealing with insect infestations and damages from birds to fishing boats. The author offers tips on how to avoid damages in boats by carefully observing if there are any presence of insects and clearing away bird droppings from boats when possible. The author also narrates his personal experience when he went on a boat trip with his children when wasps flew from the bilge pump outlet of his boat.

The article offers information on how bird guano or droppings help in the formation of clouds and possibly cool the North Pole.

The article focuses on the search of carbon crystals and minerals on the earth by geochemist Daniel Hummer. Topics discussed include mineral search in aluminum-rich waters of north-eastern Pennsylvania, conversion of Russian bird feces into crystals and discovery of mineral named tinnunculite which has crystallized from the feces of Falco tinnunculus.

The article informs on the research conducted by the biologist in Canada on the behavior of the birds, who use to perch and drops on her car in the evening.

The article discusses the risk of contamination and the spread of variety of diseases from birds that can affect food manufacturing facilities. It informs that bird droppings can cause contamination, damage stonework and metals, block ventilation channels and act as a carrier for a variety of dangerous disease organisms.

The article presents confessions from teenage girls regarding their most embarrassing experiences. One reader shared that she only realized that she had sat on a bird poo only after everyone in the canteen was looking at her. Another reader recalled that when someone in his art class cracked a joke, he started to laugh so hard that he farted really loudly.

The article offers the author's insights on various environment issues. The author commends the concept of the motion-activated hand dryers used in restaurant and airport bathrooms. He says that topic on goose droppings outside the South Dakota Capitol Building was raised in a legislative session. He cites the efforts made by U.S. legislators to legalize the actions made by two American men who possessed or killed mountain lions.

The article offers world news briefs related to religion. Campaigners of equal rights have rejoiced as New York state finally legalised homosexual marriage. New polling of information shows that Bishop Edir Macedo of Brazil's Universal Church of the Kingdom of God has encouraged followers to participate in a three-week "media fast." Meanwhile, an image of Virgin Mary appeared in a splat of bird excrement on the wing mirror of the pick up truck of the Pachuca Family in Bryan, Texas.

The article focuses on the hazards posed by bird droppings on workplaces. According to the author, certain diseases can be transferred from birds to human beings. Bird droppings also create potential slip and fall situations and fines from governmental agencies and local health boards. The steps that can be taken to address the problem of bird infestations are discussed.

The article presents several questions and answers related to interiors-related marks, splatters and stains including the removal of sticky tape marks from a painted wardrobe, removal of bird dropping stains, and the cleaning of semi-gloss bamboo floors.

The article presents information related to Mistletoebird. Once upon a time mistletoe held its place among the most sacred and magic of plants. According to European folklore it symbolised life and fertility. Cut branches could ward off evil spirits and witches and even extinguish fires. While a host plant might live for over 100 years, individual mistletoe plants usually don't live beyond a few decades. But in that time, although they may kill the host's branches out beyond the mistletoe's point of entry, they provide berries, nectar, fodder and shelter for a multitude of animal species. Although the humungous dropping was clearly all the bird's own doing, it was not all the bird's own making. INSET: Mistletoebird.

Provides information on the development of turkey-litter-burning power plants in the U.S.

Addresses questions about boats and boating. Advice on troubleshooting an electronic equipment; Products designed to remove bird droppings on boats; Process of pumping out oil through the dipstick tube.