Traveling Birds-Clearly Postmarked

Here is an image of a stamp depicting parrots, designed and engraved by Pierre Gandon, and issued for use in French Guiana on June 2, 1947, Scott No. 207, SG No. 220, and postmarked in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni on August 18, 1949.

- nethryk

Sorry to be a little late, me too if needed...
Thanks,

Fifia

Dove on Israeli cover Jerusalem 1952

Military Macaw (Ara militaris) Blue-and-yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna)
and Sun Parakeet (Aratinga solstitialis)

nethryk, that's a beautiful stamp, as are any designed by Gandon. I'd not seen it before and it got me rushing to the catalog to find there are 5 bird definitives and two air stamp with birds...now to the history of that region

fifia, thanks for the offer, until a mass migration of birds flies in....Puzzler, leng and myself should be able to cope :)

of course this is a flying bird, known as the Peace Dove,but in actual fact it's a symbolic bird only and does not make it to the bird stamp catalogs did you need to know this

Check out the latest additions to the map http://g.co/maps/tpjra

Red-naped Trogon (Harpactes kasumba) flew in from Jakarta, Indonesia

A White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) from 100 Mile House, BC, Canada.



I think the stamp is usually cleaner than this.

An Eleonora's Falcon flying in from Lukac in Croatia



Ok! have added this bird to the map.

FYI, the great white heron is not showing up on Augusta Georgia.
What is the picture of the building?

new birds arrived just now on a postcard from Mariehamn in Aland
1.80mk Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
2.20mk, Mew Gull (Larus canus)
2.60mk, Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)

Also from the same place in Aland, a cover with a pair of Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri) Just the birds you need on a cold night for some eiderdown

Please educate me - what is eiderdown?

Thanks.

Fifia

fifia, here's a little explanation,
[Swedish ejderdun, from Icelandic ædhar-dún : ædhar, genitive of ædhr, eider (from Old Norse dhr) + dún, down (from Old Norse dnn).]
The small super soft feathers of ducks and geese are called "down" feathers. They are sought after for use in making quilts and warm feather bed covers. In German the word is federbetten.
And so the feathers of the Eider duck became synonymous with all feather bed covers.....
http://www.oldandinteresting.com/hi...er-beds.aspx