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nethryk
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 Posted 02/13/2012 09:51 am
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Here is an image of a stamp depicting parrots, designed and engraved by Pierre Gandon, and issued for use in French Guiana on June 2, 1947, Scott No. 207, SG No. 220, and postmarked in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni on August 18, 1949.
- nethryk
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fifia
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Posted 02/13/2012 11:10 am
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Sorry to be a little late, me too if needed...
Thanks,
Fifia
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jamesw
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Akeela
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Malaysia
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Akeela
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Malaysia
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Posted 02/13/2012 4:03 pm
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fifia, thanks for the offer, until a mass migration of birds flies in....Puzzler, leng and myself should be able to cope :)
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Akeela
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Malaysia
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Akeela
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Malaysia
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Akeela
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Malaysia
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Posted 02/13/2012 4:25 pm
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Red-naped Trogon (Harpactes kasumba) flew in from Jakarta, Indonesia
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Puzzler
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Canada
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Posted 02/13/2012 10:23 pm
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A White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) from 100 Mile House, BC, Canada.
I think the stamp is usually cleaner than this.
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Leng
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Singapore
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Posted 02/14/2012 9:44 pm
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An Eleonora's Falcon flying in from Lukac in Croatia
Ok! have added this bird to the map.
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jamesw
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Canada
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Posted 02/14/2012 10:01 pm
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FYI, the great white heron is not showing up on Augusta Georgia.
What is the picture of the building?
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Akeela
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Malaysia
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Posted 02/14/2012 10:07 pm
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new birds arrived just now on a postcard from Mariehamn in Aland
1.80mk Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
2.20mk, Mew Gull (Larus canus)
2.60mk, Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)
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Akeela
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Malaysia
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Posted 02/14/2012 10:14 pm
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Also from the same place in Aland, a cover with a pair of Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri) Just the birds you need on a cold night for some eiderdown 
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fifia
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Posted 02/14/2012 10:28 pm
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Please educate me - what is eiderdown?
Thanks.
Fifia
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Akeela
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Malaysia
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Posted 02/14/2012 10:51 pm
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fifia, here's a little explanation, 
[Swedish ejderdun, from Icelandic ædhar-dún : ædhar, genitive of ædhr, eider (from Old Norse dhr) + dún, down (from Old Norse dnn).]
The small super soft feathers of ducks and geese are called "down" feathers. They are sought after for use in making quilts and warm feather bed covers. In German the word is federbetten.
And so the feathers of the Eider duck became synonymous with all feather bed covers.....
http://www.oldandinteresting.com/hi...er-beds.aspx
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I'd not seen it before and it got me rushing to the catalog to find there are 5 bird definitives and two air stamp with birds...now to the history of that region 
