Birds Perched, Birds Flying, Birds Aground

Netherlands
Garden birds in the Netherlands
May 20, 2019
The stamp set depicts blue tit, wren, robin, house sparrow, goldcrest, and great tit.

One of the stamps from Japan's 1998 "Greetings" sheetlet of 5 stamps features a pair of Australian parakeets, or budgerigars (Melopsitlacus undulatus). This stamp is Scott #2614c.

Parakeet owners will recognize the bird on the left as a female, and the one on the right as a male. The area just above the beak is tan to dark brown on the females, and blue on the males.

Here are images of the five stamps in a set depicting indigenous birds, and issued by Niger, plus photos.

- nethryk

Designed by French artist Pierrette Lambert (1928- ), printed by photogravure, and issued on January 4, 1971, Scott Nos. 233-36:

African grey hornbill (Tockus nasutus).


Woodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis)


Senegal coucal (Centropus senegalensis)


Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri)


Designed and engraved by French artist Jacques Gauth1er (1931- ), and issued on December 9, 1970, Scott No. 237:

Northern red bishop or orange bishop (Euplectes franciscanus, formerly regarded as a subspecies of the southern red bishop, Euplectes orix, of the southern half of Africa, but the two are now usually classified as separate species).

On January 9, 1979 the DDR released this set of 6 "native songbirds" stamps. They are Michel #s 2388-93.

5pf. chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
10pf. nuthatch (Sitta europaea)
20pf. European robin (Erithacus rubella)
25pf. bullfinch (Carpodacus erythilus)
35pf. blue tit (Parus caeruleus)
50pf. red linnet (Acanthis cannabina)

Here are images of the five stamps in a set depicting bird species found in Mercantour National Park, a French national park located in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Alpes-Maritimes departments, designed by French artist Odette Baillais (1929- ), engraved by Czeslaw Slania (1921-2005), and issued by Monaco on February 15, 1993, Scott Nos. 1843-47.

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Short-toed snake eagle (Circaetus gallicus)


Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)


Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo)


European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus)


Boreal owl (Aegolius funereus)

Satyr Tragopan





Himalayan impeyan Pheasant

Here is an image of an airmail stamp depicting three roseate terns (Sterna dougallii), designed and engraved by French artist Pierre Gandon (1899-1990), and issued by Monaco on January 14, 1955, Scott No. C41, plus a photo.

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A se-tenant pair of bird stamps pays partial franking of this June 15, 2009 registered airmail cover from Krusevac, Serbia to the U.S.A. The pair is the "heart piece" (stamps) of a 2009 souvenir sheet.

22 d. Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)
46 d. common rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis)

The eastern habitat of the white stork in Europe was recently limited to Belarus and the Baltic states.




In central Russia, storks live in zoos or in symbolic images of peace and tranquility.




But the climate has changed and I took this photo three days ago, 30 kilometers from the Moscow region.



By the way, in Russian there is an ancient, poetic name of a stork - "sterch"

European bee-eater (Merops apiaster), designed by Valentin Wurnitsch (1946- ), combined engraved by Alfred Nefe (1923- ) and photogravure, and issued by Austria on April 15, 1988 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the World Wildlife Fund, Scott No. 1425, plus a photo.

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Here are the three, first class rate stamps from Finland's September 6, 2001 fourth installment of the "Definitive Series V" (Provincial Fishes and Birds). They are Facit #s 1580-2.

blue tit (Parus caeruleus)
white wagtail (Motacilla alba)
Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus)

On January 15, 2003 Finland continued its "Provincial Fishes and Birds" definitive series with the issuance of these three stamps.

cuckoo (Cuculus canera)
skylark (Alauda arvensis)
Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus)

Two Taiwan Birds...

Croatia
EUROPA - National Birds
May 9, 2019
The stamp set depicts swallow and yellow-legged gull.

Australia
Kingfishers
October 26, 2010
60c: Red-backed Kingfisher (Todiramphus pyrrhopygius)
$1.20: Sacred Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus)
$1.80: Blue-winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii)
$3: Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Syma torotoro)