Birds Perched, Birds Flying, Birds Aground

Tuvalu
Birds of Tuvalu
July 25, 2008
The stamp set features Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens), Townsend's Warbler (Setophaga townsendi), Sooty Tern (Onychoprion fuscatus), Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus), Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra), Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda).

Jamaica
Jamaican Birds
February 10, 1986
25c Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo (Coccyzus pluvialis)
55c Jamaican Becard (Pachyramphus niger)
$1.50 White-eyed Thrush (Turdus jamaicensis)
$5 Rufous-tailed Flycatcher (Myiarchus validus)

This 2001, 50c stamp of the Bahamas depicts the Bahama Mockingbird (Mimus gundlachi) and its eggs.

From Flickr.com, "The Bahama mockingbird is a species of bird in the Mimidae family. It is found in the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and is a vagrant to the United States."

The cancel is Harbour Island Jan. 3, 2002.

North Macedonia
EUROPA - National Birds
May 2, 2019
The minisheet features Lanner Falcon (Falco biarmicus), Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni), Red-Footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus), and Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus).

Wading Birds

Set of 5 stamps
Bulgaria 1981 /

On April 26, 2004 Finland issued a miniature sheet of six, 65c. stamps depicting indigenous "Animals of the Forest." The sheet is cut/imperforate around the stamp borders, except at the bottom. The upper right stamp of the sheet, the common raven (Corvus Corax) is shown here.

From Wikipedia, Common ravens have coexisted with humans for thousands of years...Some notable feats of problem-solving provide evidence that the common raven is unusually intelligent. Over the centuries...it has been revered as a spiritual figure or godlike creature."

This Finnish, 65c. stamp depicting an Eurasian, or common magpie (Pica pica) is from a miniature sheet of 6 "Summer Gardens" stamps issued on May 7, 2003.

From Wikipedia, The Eurasian magpie is one of the most intelligent birds, and is believed to be one of the most intelligent of all non-human animals. The expansion of its nidopallium is approximately the same in its relative size as the brains of chimpanzees, orangutans, and humans."

Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)

Austrian postal card of 1992.

China 2014

Kerguelen shag (Leucocarbo verrucosus), a species of cormorant endemic to the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, designed and engraved by French artist Claude Andréotto (1949- ), and issued for use in French Southern and Antarctic Territories on January 1, 1979, Scott No. 78, plus a photo.

- nethryk

A toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) is depicted on this 2007 issue of Bolivia.

From Wikipedia, "The toco toucan, also known as the common toucan, giant toucan or simply toucan is the largest and probably the best known species of the toucan family. It is found in semi-open habitats throughout a large part of central and eastern South America."

On May 10, 1996 Japan issued two Bird Week stamps (Sc.#s 2523-4) featuring the narcissus flycatcher (Ficedula narcissina) the prefecture bird of Fukushima. In Japan, the tradition of May 10-16 as Bird Week began in 1950.

From Wikipedia, "It is native to east Asia, from Sakhalin in the north, through Japan across through Korea, mainland China, and Taiwan, wintering in Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Vietnam, and Borneo."

Has the Amazon "White Bellbird" appeared on a Postage Stamp?
The worlds noisiest Bird, above the human pain threshold.

Transkei (South Africa)
Birds
June 20, 1991
25c: Grey Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum)
40c: Cape Vulture (Gyps coprotheres)
50c: Wattled Crane (Grus carunculatus)
60c: Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)

Netherlands, what looks like a cormorant, 2005