Birds Perched, Birds Flying, Birds Aground

Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula), a booklet stamp designed by R. Sallinen, printed by lithogravure, and issued by Finland on March 20, 1991, Scott No. 856, Facit No. 113.

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Issued in March... and I thought perhaps that last one was a Christmas stamp!

Here are some neat bird stamps from Hong Kong

The Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis), a water kingfisher found widely distributed across Africa and Asia, printed by photogravure, and first issued by Japan on January 13, 1994, Scott No. 2161.

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Here are images of a couple of stamps depicting birds, designed by Ingalill Axelsson, combined engraved by Martin Mörck and lithogravure, and issued by Sweden on August 22, 1989 in a booklet containing six stamps publicizing Swedish polar research, Scott Nos. 1752 & 1754, Facit Nos. 1579 & 1581.

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Emperor Penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) and the ship Antarctic used by Finnish and Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (1869-1928) during his South Pole expedition in 1901-03.


Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus), geodimeter and surveyor. Note that Scott (2008) misidentifies this bird as an albatross.

Some stamps with birds of Chile:

Eurasian Golden Oriole (Oriolus oriolus), designed after original artwork by Finnish painter and ornithologist Magnus von Wright (1805-1868), engraved by Lars Sjööblom, and issued by Sweden on March 10, 2005, Scott No. 2505, Facit No. 2485.

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Birds on modern stamps of Chile:

Frozen birds from Antartic