{"id":5587,"date":"2020-06-19T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T09:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2020-06-19T09:41:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T09:41:53","slug":"first-world-albatross-day-celebrated-by-alsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/2020\/06\/19\/first-world-albatross-day-celebrated-by-alsa\/","title":{"rendered":"First World Albatross Day celebrated by ALSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Antarctic Legacy of South Africa (ALSA) celebrates\u00a0 with the\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/acap.aq\/\">Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels<\/a> (ACAP) the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acap.aq\/en\/latest-news\/3328-acap-proposes-a-world-albatross-day-to-increase-global-awareness-of-the-conservation-crisis-facing-albatrosses-and-petrels\">First Wold Albatross Day<\/a> on 19 June 2020. Over the years many Overwinter team members and Takeover Personnel have taken photo&#8217;s of Albatrosses. On the <a href=\"http:\/\/alp.lib.sun.ac.za\/handle\/123456789\/3\/discover?query=albatross&amp;submit=Go\">ALSA digital repository<\/a> you will find\u00a0 ore than 500 images of Albatrosses taken with people. There are also many video material and documents available. ALSA would like to share the Wandering Albatross Dance video clip with you taken in 2011 while ALSA was visiting Marion Island, the footage was taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanap.ac.za\/explore\/stations\">Marion station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5587-1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/albatross_dance.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/albatross_dance.mp4\">http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/albatross_dance.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Featured image by Ben van der Walt in 2018 on Marion Island<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_3_done.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5583\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_3_done-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_3_done-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_3_done-1024x391.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_3_done-768x293.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_3_done-1536x587.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_3_done-2048x782.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/cake-with-wording.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5585\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/cake-with-wording-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/cake-with-wording-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/cake-with-wording-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/cake-with-wording-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/cake-with-wording-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/cake-with-wording.jpg 1754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_4_done-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5584\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_4_done-300x93.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_4_done-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_4_done-1024x318.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_4_done-768x238.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_4_done-1536x477.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2020\/06\/alsa_albatross_side_4_done-2048x636.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ALSA showed support in baking a cake for the celebration. Photo credits on the Cake to Ben Dilley and Tom McSherry<\/p>\n<p>See follow up article on all the activities on World Albatross Day at beginning of July 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Antarctic Legacy of South Africa (ALSA) celebrates\u00a0 with the\u00a0 Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) the First Wold Albatross Day on 19 June 2020. Over the years many Overwinter team members and Takeover Personnel have taken photo&#8217;s of Albatrosses. On the ALSA digital repository you will find\u00a0 ore than 500 images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9816,"featured_media":5578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66197,66190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-albatross","category-international-celebration-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5588,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions\/5588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}