Barbados Bicentenary of the Birth of J J Audubon August 6, 1985 The stamp set depicts peregrine falcon, prairie warbler, great blue heron, yellow warbler.
Aitutaki Bicentenary of the Birth of John James Audubon March 22, 1985 The stamp set features gray kingbird, Bohemian waxwing, summer tanager, cardinal, white-winged crossbill.
My favourite Audubon bird stamp is the US issue from 1963 showing Columbia Jays but according to Scott's catalog : The birds shown in this painting are actually Collie's magpie jays.
Variant 1. "The skins from which Audubon painted these birds were given him by a correspondent who said they had been collected on the Columbia River in Oregon. This could not have been true. The species is Mexican. The only sighting in the United States was a bird in an Arizona feeder, which the American Ornithologists' Union says was an escape. Although it doesn't belong in The Birds of America, it is a pleasure to have it because it is so beautiful" (Low p. 84). The current name of this species is the Black-throated Magpie Jay.
The same design was used for a 1967 US airmail stamp
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