Traveling Birds-Clearly Postmarked

James, we really need a few spotters around, Great White Heron and Bald Eagle are now on the map, http://g.co/maps/tpjra

Heres a Hornbill from Kuching, Sarawak state, East Malaysia.



turned around for easier reading of the postmark

I've seen Hornbills in Sarawak :) Very nice addition to the map.
http://g.co/maps/tpjra

I've seen hornbills too- at the Bird Park here

Crimson-breasted Shrike from Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

From the Aussie 1978 Bird defintives designed by Kay Breedon is the 25c Spur-winged Plover(Vanellus spinosus) . You can see the spurs on the birds wings and also a newly hatched chick amongst the eggs. Each stamp of this series has a nest and a chick. Cancelled in Fremantle , Western Australia

Henderson Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus insularis) is endemic to Henderson Island in the Pitcairn Island group.
It's also known as the Scarlet-capped Fruit Dove.

From Russia

Fifia's is a Barn Swallow (Hirundo rusticola) on a Russian stamp cancelled in Moscow.

hooray, thanks to fifia we've got our first marker in Russia :)
http://g.co/maps/tpjra



those colorful fruit doves of the pacific region are superb...which is what they call the Queensland cousin Ptilinopus superbus (Superb frut dove)

from Chimbote in Peru
Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus)
Great Egret Ardea alba
Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus)

Wow what a fine bird cover from Peru!

Yes it's great to have a Moscow traveling bird, fifia!

An upside down cancel from Durban, South Africa on a Tockus flavirostris
or Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill

Akeela - Glad you liked the French Guiana stamp created by the great Pierre Gandon. And thanks for identifying all three parrots depicted thereon.

"Mandarin Ducks in the Snow," printed by photogravure, and issued by Japan on October 6, 1998 for International Letter Writing Week, Scott No. 2634, detail from cover showing that this stamp was postmarked at the Akasaka midtown post office, Tokyo, on November 27, 1998.

- nethryk

Alabama state bird Yellow-shafted flicker, sent from Woodbridge Virginia USA by Mr. Tomisek. The bird is also called a Yellowhammer in my 1974 Harris catalogue.

for fifia- there's no duck down on the feet to keep them warm

You will find Mandarin ducks on at least 10 different Japanese stamps !



Note the yellow color shift. There are numerous USA state birds with color variations and shifts