Birds Perched, Birds Flying, Birds Aground

USA SC#1375 1969 6c

USA SC#1413 1970 6c

Since this is now a "mega thread", these may be duplicates BUT HEY, they're postally used!

Russia 2024

Catching up on some oldies, eh? ;-) A lot of the first posts were connected to Photobucket so it may be a good idea to revisit some of these.

Belarus 2024

Russia 2023

Birds, designed and engraved by Pierre Forget and issued by Saint Pierre and Miquelon in 1974 and 1975.

Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) and Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis)

Double-crested Cormorant (Nannopterum auritum) and Common Murre (Uria aalge)

Endangered birds, issued by Japan on December 10, 1984.

- Crested Serpent Eagle (Spilornis cheela)
- Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)

Japan 1996

Belarus owl 2023

Russia 2024


Russia 2018

Birds, issued by Argentina during 1960-1961.

- Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)
- Magellanic Woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus)
- Huayco Tinamou (Rhynchotus maculicollis)
- Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)
- Imperial Shag (Leucocarbo atriceps)

White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), designed by Ingalill Axelsson, engraved by Lars Sjooblom and issued by Sweden on March 29, 1988.

Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus), Roslagen district, Sweden, designed by Lennart Nilsson, engraved by Czeslaw Slania and issued by Sweden on May 2, 1977.

A favorite philatelic 'favor' cover of mine from Cayenne, French Guiana to New York, postmarked 1/12/48, and featuring Scott #C18-C20. The first two stamps of this series were designed and engraved by Pierre Gandon, and the third designed by Gandon but engraved by Gabriel-Antoine Barlangue.

#C18 features a Black Caracara (Daptrius ater) and #C20 features four different toucan species... Black-necked Aracari (Pteroglossus aracari), Yellow-throated Toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus), Black-billed Mountain Toucan (Andigena nigrirostris) and Channel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus).

(The cover is marked "PREMIER JOUR", or first day of issue, but the first day of issue for this set is supposed to be 6/2/47 according to Scott and Dallay. That being said, I've known Scott to be wrong about issue dates on many occasions... could both catalogs be wrong?)