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Australia
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Posted 05/12/2012   07:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Akeela to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Puzzler...you have made a wise decision to avoid unreadable cancels on bird stamps . Welcome to the world of real flown birds



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Posted 05/12/2012   07:44 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Akeela to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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The national bird of Montserrat, the Montserrat Oriole (Icterus oberi)
on a Redonda, Antigua stamp. Redonda is part of Antigua & Barbuda, is uninhabited

Leng...I keep going back to this attractive stamp and clear cancel but wonder how an uninhabited island can have it's own name on a cancel. The history of the island is fascinating
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Australia
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Posted 05/12/2012   07:55 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Akeela to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Flown in from Donau Linz, Austria a 2008 Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) and the magnificent 2010 Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)


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Canada
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Posted 05/12/2012   1:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Isle of Man, 1973 stamp, postmarked DOUGLAS showing some
Manx Shearwater birds (Puffinus puffinus) with similar nesting habits to the Atlantic Puffin, thus the name shift from Manks Puffins years ago.



edit: I just noticed the missing perf in the upper corner. Looking at the cancel too much trying to read it upside down. Perf blindness for a cancel collector. lol
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Edited by Puzzler - 05/12/2012 1:23 pm
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Australia
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Posted 05/13/2012   12:22 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Akeela to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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I just noticed the missing perf in the upper corner. Looking at the cancel too much

pretty good trade-off..a clear cancel for a perf
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Edited by Akeela - 05/13/2012 12:24 am
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Australia
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Posted 05/13/2012   12:28 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Akeela to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
More birds from Mountain Lakes..this time a 1998 Cardinal Honeyeater and a trio of 1988 Saw-Whet owls.


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Thailand
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Posted 06/03/2012   05:25 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add scifi7 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I forgot I had these (they are on the back of the cover). Another arrival from Hong Kong:



Fork-Tailed Sunbird (Aethopyga christinae)

Faint mark at top is probably an incoming mark from Sri Racha Mail Centre (Thailand).
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Australia
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Posted 06/03/2012   08:58 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Akeela to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Sci-fi, nice addition to the map. Your block of 6 looks like its from a booklet pane .
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Canada
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Posted 06/15/2012   8:24 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Haven't flown into this thread for a while.
Has this fellow appeared?
Pelargopsis capensis gouldi
aka the Stork-billed Kingfisher, coming to you from Manila.

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Australia
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Posted 06/16/2012   09:07 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Akeela to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
thanks James, it's a beauty and the first Stork-billed KF on the map. I had a pair of these birds in my garden recently, those huge beaks are stunning and also the lovely orange color on the breast
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Posted 07/06/2012   8:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A pair of Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus) flying from Russel Island (an Island off Brisbane), Queensland, Australia. on an 2012 Australian personalized stamp.



Image lightened so as to see the birds better.
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Russian Federation
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Posted 07/07/2012   08:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Alexey to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Unfortunately, not seen here postage stamps of Russia and the Soviet Union. I want to fix it. If necessary, I will try to translate into English names of birds, or to find their Latin name.
I want to show the stamps of the USSR 1957-1991 now, specifically dedicated to the birds (no random images, symbolic, painting, and others):
The first stamps with birds from a large series of "Animals" in 1957 and 1959


A series of "The Birds" 1962


A series of "100 Years of the Moscow Zoo": pelican and eagle-bearded


A series of "Birds of Prey" - 1965


Poultry flocks on the coast of the Kuril Islands


Rare birds of the state reserves, issues in different years




A series of "Seabirds" -1972


Caucasian Reserve, 1973 ular- snowcock


A series of "Fauna of the USSR", 1975


A series of "EXPO 75: Sea and its future developments," long-tailed duck

Series 1976 "Reserves of the USSR"


A series of "Animals of the Antarctic", 1978


A series of "The Birds - the defenders of the forest", 1979


A series of "Songbirds", 1981


18 International Ornithological Congress, 1982


120 years of the Moscow Zoo



The standard of mark, 1988: Penguins on the Antarctic stations and the white cranes


A series of "Ducks", 1989



Release of fund for zoos "The Birds", 1990


"Poultry", 1990


A series of "Ducks", 1990


A series of "Owls", 1990



A series of "Ducks", 1991


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Australia
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Posted 07/07/2012   08:51 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Akeela to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Puzzler, it's a rare stamp indeed with the personalized rainbow lorikeets. I guessed it would have come from southern Queensland, as that region has very large flocks of these colorful noisy birds. Rainbow lorikeets tame easily and many households have feeders for them. :"it's on the map"
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Canada
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Posted 07/16/2012   10:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This next one is a cheat as it's not a real bird. But I thought the cancel was great.

From the Australia 2012, 60c self-adhesive, Mythical Creatures series, a Griffin flying from Sunshine Coast Mail Center (MC) in Queensland, 4560.




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The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Greek: γρύφων, grýphōn, or γρύπων, grýpōn, early form γρύψ, grýps; Latin: gryphus) is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. As the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle was the king of the birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature. The griffin was also thought of as king of the creatures. Griffins are known for guarding treasure and priceless possessions.
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Posted 07/21/2012   12:27 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Now these three are not in my possession so I am cheating a bit again here. I apologize. They are just neat so I wanted to share them.
Australia personalised stamps with all the same cancel RUSSELL ISLAND QLD (Queensland), and I know the cancel should be darker and more readable.

A saved Pita bird of some variety (there are many)


a Barn Owl


and a Cockatoo


The creator of these stamps lives on Russell Island, which is in the bay off Brisbane, QLD, the pics are from there.
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