Traveling Birds-Clearly Postmarked

Here is an image of an airmail stamp depicting a Black-headed Parrot (Pionites melanocephalus, sometimes, as on this stamp, incorrectly identified as Pionites melanocephala), designed by N. Ordóñez, printed by lithography, and issued by Ecuador on June 17, 1966, Scott No. C442. This stamp appears to have been postmarked in Quito on November 18, 1966.

- nethyrk

Beautifully colored stamp with a great cancel.Its a rare sighting for me to see used stamps like this from way over the other side of the world :)

This is a rare find for me too, it just arrived a few days...a 1958 cover from Motueke in the South Island of new Zealand covered in Australian Gannets which breed on the off-shore islands of New Zealand. The name on the stamp , Cape Kidnappers refers to the Gannet Reserve at Hawkes Bay.

Hi,
very great and interesting topic Akeela. Great idea with bird map.
Please sent me your address, I`ll sent you letter with bird from Slovenia - really traveled bird from Slovenia to Malaysia.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a couple of Pintails (Anas acuta), designed by Þröstur Magnússon, printed by photogravure, and issued by Iceland on March 19, 1986 as one of a set of four birds stamps, Scott No. 619, Facit No. 682, and postmarked in Reykjavik in 1986.

- nethryk

PS To primoz - I agree this is a great topic for a thread. But Akeela hasn't posted anything here for quite a while. I think that he may have "flown the coop!"

Kentish plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus), printed by photogravure, issued by Japan (Mie Prefecture) on July 22, 1994, Scott No. Z151, and postmarked in Nagoya on July 25, 1994.

- nethryk

Here are a pair of bird stamps from Belgium 1988, postmarked GENT, Belgium, with male Eurasian Bullfinches ( Pyrrhula pyrrhula ) on them, from the Finch family. In French, Bouvreuil, in Dutch, Goud Vink as shown on the stamp.



Also a pair of bird watchers on stilts!

Pingu the penguin plays postman, printed by lithography, issued by Switzerland on March 9, 1999, Scott No. 1041, and postmarked in Schaffhausen.

- nethryk

Here is an image of an airmail stamp depicting a Nubian bee-eater (Merops nubicus), designed by Charles Mazelin after original artwork by French zoologist Pierre Louis Dekeyser (1914-1984), printed by photogravure, issued by Senegal on July 8, 1961, Scott No. C26, and postmarked in Dakar.

- nethryk

Lanner falcon (Falco biarmicus), designed by M.F. Bryan, printed by photogravure, and issued by Botswana on August 2, 1982, Scott No. 310, postmarked in Gabarone on July 18, 1986, plus a photo.

- nethryk

Razorbills (Alca torda), designed by Icelandic artist Þröstur Magnússon, printed by photogravure on granite paper, and issued by Iceland on March 19, 1986, Scott No. 621, postmarked in Reykjavik on July 25, 1989, plus a photo.

- nethryk

"Lapwing in flight, a sign of Spring," designed by Danish artist Sonia Brandes, printed by lithography, and issued by Denmark on February 24, 1999, Scott No. 1150, Facit No. 1234, and postmarked in Østjylland on September 24, 1999.

- nethryk

One of the last place visited in my worldly travels was Safranbolu in northern Turkey. Lucky enough to get a half readable postmark on a couple of new definitive series stamps with swans.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius), designed by Lichtenstein artist Louis Jaeger, printed by photogravure on granite paper (Courvoisier, S.A.), and issued by Liechtenstein on June 5, 1989 as a World Wildlife Fund stamp, Scott No. 907, and postmarked in Nendeln on January 17, 1991.

- nethryk