A World Cat Day must seem a strange thing to an Albatross, don't you agree? Like a World Rat Day...
This is the first of tree cartoons requested by the ACAP to celebrate the first World Albatross Day on the 19th of June 2020. The next part is coming out soon.
I hear Albatrosses can spend up to ten years without setting a webbed foot on land. Can you imagine living so long without touching anything stable and firm? And when they come to land they do it for one reason only. Yes, you guessed it.
So today we got 1000 likes on our Facebook Albatrosses page, this might seem unimportant, but just imagine 1000 people smiling at an albatrosses cartoon. That's a thousand smiles. I like that. So I made this drawing for you and if, by chance you'd like to have a 1000 Albatrosses iPhone cover or something like that. Check out our store here.
And keep on smiling
Albatrosses are aided in soaring by a wing-lock mechanism, a sheet of tendons that lock the wing when fully extended, allowing the wings to be kept outstretched without any energy expenditure. Neat, huh?
It is a well known fact that Albatrosses are master flyers. Less well known is the fact that they are close to useless on land.
That might explain why they spend so little time there.
Young albatrosses will return to land after reaching sexual maturity. But that may take some time.
So, this is a real news item I am exited about: A Black-browed Albatross was sighted near Skagen in Denmark on the 25/26th of May, and then in Heligoland in the last week of May and into June. There is more about this on the ACAP Website here..
Maybe one day I'll see my first Albatross here in Portugal...
Six Pack Rings are a common and persistent environmental problem that needs to be resolved. Read more about it Here
