Birds Perched, Birds Flying, Birds Aground

Canada
Birds of Canada
July 24, 2016
The five featured birds are the Atlantic Puffin (Newfoundland and Labrador), the Common Raven (Yukon), the Great Horned Owl (Alberta), Rock Ptarmigan (Nunavut) and the Sharp-tailed Grouse (Saskatchewan).

Netherlands
Birds of the Dutch Shallows
April 25, 2016
Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)

Ireland
Game Birds of Ireland
October 5, 1989
Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus)
Eurasian Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)
Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)

1999 SOUTH AFRICA Grey Heron (Andea cinerea) Foreign Postage Paid Aerogram.

In Gibbons' Stamp Monthly of August 2009 David Sinclair expands on an earlier story on some interesting errors on S A aerogrammes.


Two aerogrammes had pre-printed stamps which contained the design instruction rather than the correct text. The Grey Heron 'international rate' aerogramme of 1999 was one, and the Orange River Lily 'southern Africa rate' aerogramme of 2000 was the other. Both were captioned:

1999 Chris van Rooyen - English and Scientific name of Bird

The Heron should have been captioned Grey Heron (Andea cinerea) and the Lily should have been captioned Orange River Lily (Crinum bulbispermum), African Monarch (Danauschrysippus aegyptius) (there was no bird at all on the Lily aerogramme, just the flower with the butterfly!). Both errors were corrected by the Government Printers and new aerogrammes issued.

In this case I have the correct version, although the error version would have added some interest)

Lineated woodpecker (Dryocopus lineatus erythrops, aka Ceophloeus lineatus), an airmail semi-postal (charity) stamp designed by Horacio Álvarez Boero, printed by lithography, and issued by Argentina on September 20, 1969 to benefit children's welfare funds, Scott No. CB40, plus a photo.

- nethryk

This 2014 Portuguese stamp featuring a bald eagle is more specifically a personalized stamp created for S.L. Benifica, a Portuguese sport (soccer/football) club. The flying eagle is an animal mascot. There is also a human mascot who attends games dressed as an anthropomorphic eagle.

Moldova
Endangered Bird Species
June 8, 1995
Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni)
Roller (Coracias garrulus)
Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor)
Black-headed Bunting (Emberiza melanocephala)

Thailand
Bird Preservation
February 26, 1980
Golden-fronted Leafbird (Chloropsis aurifrons)
Yellow-cheeked Tit (Parus spilonotus)
Chestnut-tailed Minla (Minla strigula)
Scarlet Minivet (Pericrocotus flammeus)

Indonesia
Threatened Bird Species
July 15, 2012
Siau Scops Owl (Otus siaoensis)
Flores Hawk-eagle (Nisaetus floris)
Elegant Sunbird (Aethopyga duyvenbodei)
Invisible Rail (Habroptila wallacii)

Iceland
Birds
November 5, 2009
Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia)
Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)

1985-1989 Bird Definitives use on 1990 World Stamp Expo Auckland Souvenir Passes
Birds $1 Kokako and $2 Black Robin

This ones flying over to me in the next few days

2007 Moldova - Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus MS


..........and these should be winging their way at the same time

75b Great Bustard Otis tarda
1L Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus
2.50L Black Grouse Lyrurus tetrix
5L Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus
Moldova 2007 Bird set.