World Albatross Day

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The Albatross ….. a big bird in BIGGER trouble

Its world albatross day (June 19th) – here are some facts you might now know about his magnificent bird In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” a sailor kills an albatross and thereafter, as a punishment, is forced to wear its carcass around his neck. And so albatrosses came unfairly to represent a burden from which one couldn’t escape.  However, the literary phrase has it all backwards. It fails to capture the terrible burden humans place on this group of huge, majestic seabirds,...

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