Chasing Guano: The Discovery of a Penguin Supercolony

2024 EUREKA! Nonfiction Children’s Book Silver Award Winner

2024 Blueberry Award Honor Book

When scientist Heather Lynch came across a satellite image of the Antarctic Peninsula's remote Danger Islands streaked with pink, she knew exactly what she was looking at. . . .

Poop—guano, to be more specific—and a lot of it. The culprit, she suspected, was a previously unnoticed colony of penguins. A big one. And their favorite food appeared to be pink krill. For a closer look, Heather built a team f...