Inca terns Larosterna inca zarcillo roost on guano covered cliff Ballestas island off peruvian pacific south coast photo 1990

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These islands are part of a small group off the southern pacific coast of Peru reknown historically for the production of Guano a comodity very valuable to the peruvian economy in the early 1900s. Now part of a biologically important national marine wildlife reserve.

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