22 June 2020
19 June 2020
World Albatross Day
Dear Friends. Today is World Albatross Day and I hope this will help the plight of our favorite seabird. Here is a bit of History about the WAD.
Also, there is a making of:
15 August 2019
World Albatross Day
12 August 2019
Lobbying for a World Albatross Day
And you can expect the final part of this story on thuresday. . . #acap #albatrozes #albatrosses #albatross #cartoon #tiracomica #humor #qualalbatroz #conservation #worldalbatrossday
8 August 2019
World Cat Day
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.
15 April 2017
Here is a special "how to draw Albie" page I drew for the RSPB Wild Explorer magazine.
Take up pen and paper.
1 April 2017
15 March 2017
1 March 2017
15 February 2017
The Warmest Year
NOAA and NASA say 2016 was the warmest year since recordkeeping began. There really is not much more I can say.
By the way I've got a 2006 Citroen Berlingo for sale, and I'm looking to buy a bike.
1 February 2017
15 January 2017
1 January 2017
Boaty McBoatface
So, in 2016 the NERC asked the internet what they should call their new research vessel. The most voted name was Boaty McBoatface, so they called the ship the RRS Sir David Attenborough, which is nice.
15 December 2015
1 December 2015
Do the Moonwalk
The Albatross Courtship dance is almost certainly one of the most intricate and complex of any being apart from the French.
15 November 2015
1 November 2015
For the Second World Seabird Conference
Check out their website here! It's a place were i'd like to be. See some Albatrosses
15 October 2015
Not Coming Out!
Sometines an albatross chick can spend some extra time inside the egg. Parents don't usually help with the hatching.
1 October 2015
A Complicated Mating Dance
It is known that Albatrosses have quite a complicated courtship dance ritual.
15 September 2015
1 September 2015
15 August 2015
Plastic Pollution Limerick
My friend and albatross lover Sybren Renema send me this powerful limerick about the problems of plastic ocean pollution:
There once was an albie from Leith, Who thought he had plenty to eat, But his health eroded 'till his stomach exploded For plastic digests not like meat.
1 August 2015
Perfect Landing
Yes, Albatrosses do spend years at sea without ever touching firm ground.
1 July 2015
Landsick
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.
29 June 2015
1000 Albatrosses
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
15 June 2015
Shark Shaped Motivation
Every year at fledging time, tiger sharks gather to feast on the less motivated Albatrosses. It's fly or die time.
1 June 2015
The Famous Wing-Lock
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?
15 May 2015
A Limerick by the poet Albatross
There once was a bloody big Albatross
who struggled to get the idea across
that the great big blue sea
is a nice place to be,
But with garbage it's thick just like applesauce.
Yes, that's right, I've rhymed Albatross with Applesauce. That's how my mind works and I'm not ashamed to say so.
1 May 2015
Vacation in Heligoland
I hear that a Black-browed Albatross has been sighted in Heligoland on the 19th of April 2015. Just like last year in May. Remember? I wonder if it's the same bird...
You can read more about this here in this excelent article by Felix Timmermann
15 April 2015
National Geographic Magazine
You can find the said National Geographic article by Carl Safina HERE. It's well worth the read!
1 April 2015
15 March 2015
Self-Conscious Waddlers
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.
1 March 2015
A Haruspex and a Biologist
From looking at the guts of dead albatrosses a biologist can often say how the bird died. And it's usually due to the ingestion of plastic materials. I wonder what a Haruspex would say of our future by looking at those same guts... What do you think? Let me know in the comments. Do you know what a Haruspex is? Well, look it up and learn something new.
15 February 2015
1 February 2015
Release The Fledglings
Young albatrosses will return to land after reaching sexual maturity. But that may take some time.
15 January 2015
A Haiku from the Poet Albatross
This cartoon is based on a Haiku by Julia Fiedorczuk and Gerardo Beltrán for the Ecopoetics project, because some things have to be said with a poem.
1 January 2015
Plastic Food
Did you know that Albatrosses and other wildlife die from plastic in their food chain? Plastic Food kills and it's not as if those animals had the healthy food option we arguably do.
You can learn more about this on the Plastic Pollution Coalition website.
1 November 2014
15 October 2014
The Shooting Star
Children have questions. Sometimes you might feel tempted to make up the answer. Do it. Make this world more magical.
1 October 2014
15 September 2014
1 September 2014
The Procrastination Paradox
Oh yes, you know what I'm talking about, don't you?
15 August 2014
It's All About Notoriety
"Notoriety isn't better than fame, but it sure as hell beats obscurity" A Quote by Terry Pratchett and/or Neil Gaimen from the book Good Omens
I think Napoleon said something similar.
1 August 2014
15 July 2014
1 July 2014
15 June 2014
1 June 2014
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...