Traveling Birds-Clearly Postmarked

Red Kite from Glattbrugg added to the map!
http://g.co/maps/tpjra.

Akeela, regarding the type of cancels/postmarks on Traveling Birds-good question!

Well, machine cancels show that the birds actually traveled;
the nice hand canceled birds may or may not have traveled;
the Crimson Rosellas from Southport have both hand & machine cancels so they actually traveled;
birds on FDCs havent traveled, but those on mailed FDCs have;
so I think bird covers with hand cancels have to be examined to determine if they have traveled!

For this thread, I have no preference , except unposted FDCs & CTOs dont qualify.

Leng, I tend to agree with you about the hand cancels on stamps so in future I will show the whole cover. When I first started collecting bird stamps, one of my rules for used stamps was not to have any cancel through the birds head...but that was before I discovered Travelling Birds

Domestic chickens from Villa Clara in Cuba.

A pair of Dickinson's Grey Kestrel (Falco dickinsoni) from Chingola, Zambia took off on 21.7. 1992

Mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos), designed by Austrian stamp designer Valentin Wurnitsch (1946- ), printed by photogravure, and issued by Austria on February 16, 2001 to publicize wetlands protection, Scott No. 1835, postmarked in Graz on March 7, 2001.

- nethryk

This is a good stamp for bird identification


I received two more of the new Mallard stamps from Australia this week

Can someone help withe ID of the town cancel. St Louis is legible..what would the rest be?

1991 $14 definitive stamp of the Bald Eagle( Haliaeetus leucocephalus )

High value definitives complete with gutter description from the 2010 Gibraltar set..Pallid Swift (Apus pallidus)

The previous two stamps arrived inside an envelope from Thanjavur India with these stamps on the front
High value year 2000, def Asian Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) and the 2010 Indian Eagle-Owl(Bubo bengalensis)

check out the map for the latest updates http://g.co/maps/tpjra

Crowned Eagle, Crimson Doves, & White-tailed Crested Flycatcher from Nthalire, Malawi on 24.02.99

Another pair of Kokako (Callaeas cinereus) to add to those on page 12

From Glenwood, Canterbury, New Zealand




From Roslyn, Otago, New Zealand

A packet from Australia arrived this week with new and older bird stamps as well as other endemic fauna of the country. These stamps are good promotion for the rare endemic species of 'down-under'
Birds are the new 2012, $2.35 Plumed Whistle Duck and from 2005, $1.00 Superb Lyrebird
Flown from Bungalow, Queensland 4870

I havent seen that Lyrebird stamp before, beautiful!

This Sociable Weaver bird (Philetarius socius) is from Pointe-Noire, Kouilou, Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) 1967 (SG113, issued 1967)