The Birds and Bees

Did you know about the waggle dance? Bees are fascinating animals.

The one about the Corkscrew-shaped Penis

Long Nights

The Heligoland Albatross

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...

Landing is Tough

An Ill Literate

It's not a very good joke, but I made it up myself. So that's nice.

Easter Prank

Quality Evening Entertainment

What can I say - watch less TV...

The Albatross Adventurer

Well, If you know nothing of Internet Memes, you might wonder about this one. But If you got the joke, leave a comment and we are friends.

Calamari al profumo di limone

Ocean Acidification is becoming more and more of a problem. This week I heard of a study that concluded that higher levels of dissolved carbon in the water makes it so that fishes get caught more easily by predators. Sadly there is no lemon flavor involved.

Will you be my Valentine?

Will you be my Valentine?

Asleep at the wing

The heligoland albatross is back for the 4th year running... or rather flying. And speaking of flying. Did you know that albatrosses can sleep in the air? Cool, hu?

Albatross T'ai chi

Albatross T'ai chi ch'uan - Why not? It's a stressful life.

Striving to be a Better Albatross

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

quote by Denis Waitley

The World Turned Upside Down

Plastic Inflation

There is such a thing as plastic inflation.

Plastic Currency

This one is about Plastic Pollution and a bit about greed.

Soar in the Wind!

It can get quite windy down where the wild Albatrosses are.

Save the Albatross

They are not cuddly cute, nor can they be ever held in a zoo because a thousand mile flight is a stroll around the block for them. So most people don't even know what an albatross is, and those who do, have never seen an albatross, nor will they, as albatrosses mostly live in remote parts of the southern hemisphere, far away from civilization. If, by chance, you do come across an albatross, you cannot pat it, and the only dignified way to capture it, is in a poem, or a photo if you've got a big telescopic lens because you may not come too close. Albatrosses are not at all like Pandas. If they were more like pandas, maybe fundraising would be easier.

Unfortunately albatrosses are no strangers to the IUCN Red List. Too many birds drown caught on long-line fishing hooks as they try to eat the bait. Uncounted others die due to plastic pollution. These magnificent seabirds need our help.

How? Well, here's the pitch: If you buy a signed print of a witty Albatrosses cartoon for 40 euros (Here in our online store), we will ship it to you free of charge in a plastic-free package and give 20 euros to the Foundation for Antarctic Research to help them learn more about the Albatross. The funds will be used to buy bird tags for the albatrosses on Diego Ramirez to study the overlap of the bird's feeding areas with the fishing areas.

Albatrosses is a twice-monthly comic strip I draw about a somewhat unusual colony of albatrosses lost somewhere in the South Pacific. Its aim is to reveal the plight of the albatross to everyone using wit and humor, promoting a better understanding of the need to save the albatross along with the panda.

Help me Save the Albatross,
Marc Parchow
photo by Herma van Gerner

• Buy the Albatrosses Prints HERE to help save the albatross.
• If you have any question you can contact me at marc (at)qualalbatroz (dot)pt
• And If you want to know more about the Foundation and the Diego Ramirez project, please mail Sandra Birnhak at birnhardt (at)aol (dot)com

Darth Vader Poop

Star Wars Poop? Sadly, plastic bits in albatross faeces is not such a rare thing. That's plastic polution for you. Please reuse your plastic bags.

New words in the Oxford Dictionary - SRSLY!

New buzzworthy words are added to Oxford Dictionaries Online – squee!

Longline Fishing Kills

A Joke!

I Feel Like Dancing

Sometines You've just got do Dance!

You can call me Bob

Introducing Lil'Bob

The Albatross Name Tag

Do Albatrosses have names?

Three Wise Albatrosses

An Albatrosses T-shirt? What do you think?
Oh, and here is a bit of a Making of, just for you.

What Way to Bloom County

Opus the Penguin from Bloom County visits our Albatrosses. Today,21 of June 2013 is Bloom County's creator, Berkeley Breathed's 56th birthday. Happy Birthday and thanks for all the laughs and ideas.

Mouse Predation

We are not in Kansas anymore. Mouse predation is a real problem and you can learn more on the ACAP (Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels) site right Here!

The Redneck Albatross

Some of you might not know what Tipping Penguins means, right? Well, It's like cow-tipping, but with penguins it's more fun, because they slide farther.

Pygalgia

Learn new words with Albatrosses.

Whooping Cranes have it worse.

Whooping Cranes have it indeed worse. To learn more about the conservation efforts in place check HERE on the ICF site!

April Moon

April Moon, April Fool! Gottcha!

Plastic Haute Couture

Six Pack Rings are a common and persistent environmental problem that needs to be resolved. Read more about it Here

Feelin' Blue

100th Cartoon and Cake

And we'd like to thank you all for staying with us for almost 5 years. Here, have some Cake, but be careful, this particular cake is a Lie. Shall we try to get to 200?

Oh, The Irony!

Smoking Kills. *sigh*

Wisdom

This strip was inspired by This article from the Guardian.

"She is described as awesome. And wonderful. And maybe a little weird. She is the world's oldest-known living wild bird at age 62, and she gave birth to a healthy chick that hatched on 3 February."

New Year's resolution

It's always like that, isn't it?

Ice on the Landing Strip

A Night for Shakespeare

Storm Speech on the Heath

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Act III, Scene 2 from King Lear by William Shakespeare (1623)

King Lear
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Smite flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
Crack nature’s moulds, an germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!

Fool
O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry
house is better than this rain-water out o’ door.
Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters’ blessing:
here’s a night pities neither wise man nor fool.

King Lear
Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;
I never gave you kingdom, call’d you children,
You owe me no subscription: then let fall
Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man...

The hustle of the breeding season

Still Hating Cats!

...But in a Good Way

Wrong Pole?

Why don't Polar Bears eat Penguins? Do You know?

Hello Albie?

Lighter Pollution

A Hot Summer