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This page is for listing stamps I am aware of and may need. Some are found on official sites, while others are listed on dealers' sites. If you know of new bird stamps not listed here, please let me know! Latest additions: Costa Rica, BAT, x3, x2, China updated, Korea (S), Antigua updated, Curacao Expected later 
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| Country | Detail | Date of Issue | Status | Source of information |
| China
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I have received news that in 2021, China will issue a sheet of endangered and protected species of China.
There will be 8 stamps including the following 3 birds:
Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus),
Yellow-breasted Bunting (Emberiza aureola) and
Severtzov's Grouse (Tetrastes sewerzowi).
I am awaiting further news of this issue.
It is listed at item 25 on this listing of the
plan for 2021.
Update My Correspondent has informed me of the intended date of issue and sent these 4 images: Sheet, Peafowl, Bunting and Grouse. |
3 December 2021 |  |
Correspondent and Chinese Stamps |
BAT
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30 Years of Environmental Protection: 4 stamps with one featuring Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri). These stamps may be obtained directly from the Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau. | 23 November 2021 |  |
Notification from Pobjoy Stamps and Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau |
| BAT
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Final Voyage of the RRS James Clark Ross: 4 stamps with one featuring a group of Penguins - probably Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) and Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis antarctica). These stamps may be obtained directly from the Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau. | 23 November 2021 | |
Notification from Pobjoy Stamps and Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau |
| BAT
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Blue Belt Programme: 4 stamps with one featuring a small image of a probable Adelie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae). Here are details of the Blue Belt Programme. | 23 November 2021 | |
Notification from Pobjoy Stamps |
| Falkland Is.
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Black-browed Albatross: 4 stamps all featuring Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris). These stamps may eventually be obtained directly from the Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau. | 17 November 2021 |  |
Notification from Pobjoy Stamps |
| Sweden
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Christmas: single featuring stylised but recognisable Great Tit (Parus major) and Eurasian Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus). | 11 November 2021 | |
Sweden Post |
| Ascension Is.
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Blue Belt Programme: 4 stamps with one featuring Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra). Here are details of the Blue Belt Programme. | 9 November 2021 | |
Notification from Pobjoy Stamps |
| South Georgia
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Blue Belt Programme: 4 stamps with one featuring Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua). Here are details of the Blue Belt Programme. | 9 November 2021 | |
Notification from Pobjoy Stamps |
| TAAF
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TAAF Fauna: 5 stamps featuring Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor), Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos), Australian Gannet (Morus serrator) and Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri). The image is taken from Phil'Info for November 2021. | 4 November 2021 | |
Le Carré D'Encre. |
| Finland
| Bitter Grounds has listed Finland's stamps for 2021: 3 stamps are shown for Christmas with one featuring Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula. | 3 November 2021 | |
Bitter Grounds. |
| Korea (S)
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Definitives: 3 stamps with one featuring Japanese Paradise-Flycatcher (Terpsiphone atrocaudata). This image gives the date. | 29 October 2021 | |
Ebay |
| Kyrgyzstan
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A sale on Delcampe has this image of 3 stamps featuring European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster). I could not find the issue on Kyrgyzstan Post's website. This FDC gives the date. | 22 October 2021 | |
Delcampe. |
| Curaçao | Arts of Nena Sanchez, 6 stamps with one featuring Venezuelan Troupial (Icterus icterus). WOPA+ gives the date. | 23 October 2021 | |
cpostinternational |
| Kyrgyzstan | A sale on Delcampe has this image which shows a statue of a mounted Kyrgyz hunter with a Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos). I could not find the issue on Kyrgyzstan Post's website. This FDC gives the date. | 10 September 2021 | |
Delcampe. |
| Kyrgyzstan |
The programme for 2021 includes "Joint stamp issue between Kyrgyzstan and Croatia. Protected birds: Woodpeckers", two stamps, but with no further details,
but I am hopeful that one of the birds will be
White-winged Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucopterus),
and the other should be
Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos medius).
Update Images of these two stamps have been published and confirm the two predicted species. The issue date has not been confirmed, and I cannot find a corresponding issue on the Croatia Post website. (It's there now!). Update 18 September 2021 An email from Kyrgyzstan Post announced delay in publishing this issue: "we are not announcing any new stamps in this email either. Unfortunately, after the recent reorganization, the Ministry of Digital Development has not yet determined the procedure for issuing stamps for Kyrgyz Express Post. Most of all, we regret that we let down our partners from Croatia, who will put into circulation the stamps of our joint issue, on September 22. We will have to do this a little later. |
October 2021? | |
Correspondence with Kyrgyzstan Post |
| Antigua & Barbuda
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Hummingbird: 1
sheet with 5 stamps
and a
souvenir sheet all featuring unnamed species of hummingbird. The only one I am certain of is
Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus).
I have extracted images of each bird and these can be used with Google's image search to find other occurrences of each image.
$3.50 stamp
{source},
$4 stamp
{source},
$4.50 stamp
{source},
$5 stamp
{source},
$5.50 stamp
{source},
$14 stamp
{source}.
Update Tino Mischler has suggested the following identifications: $3.50 female Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus), $4 (I am waiting for an answer from Ecuador), $4.50 male Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus), $5 Sparkling Violet-ear (Colibri coruscans), $5.50 Chestnut-breasted Coronet ( Boissonneaua matthewsii) and $14 (MS) probable Collared Inca (Coeligena torquata). |
September 2021 | |
IGPC |
| Costa Rica
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Tourism: 2 stamps with one featuring a stylised Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao). Here's a better image. | 9 August 2021 | |
Delcampe and Costa Rica Post |
| Guyana | IGPC has produced an issue about Hummingbirds: consisting of
a souvenir sheet which unfortunately features a
Southern Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris chalybeus), derived from this
photograph and a
sheetlet of 6 stamps featuring unnamed Hummingbirds derived from photographs found online.
Finding the source images is not too difficult thanks to
Google's Image Search, but confirming the birds' identities is more problematic, as often the person taking the photograph does not know the identity.
Here's what I think they are together with a link to the source photographs: Coppery-headed Emerald (Elvira cupreiceps) {source}, Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) {source}, Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) {source}, Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) {source}, Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) {source} and Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) {source}. |
21 June 2021 | |
IGPC |
| Papua New Guinea | Birds of Paradise: this long-awaited issue has re-appeared.
There are no details and the anticipated date is "July"
Update 12 Oct The latest news from Post PNG:"Birds of Paradise, Bilums (string bags), and Saltwater Crocodiles on the drawing board. If all goes well, we hope to release by end of November, 2020." Update 2 May The latest news is that the proposed date has been amended as can be found on the 2021 plan. Update 24 July The expected issue date has passed but news via Commonwealth Stamps Opinion gives some hope that we may eventually see these stamps. | 7 June 2021 | |
Post PNG |
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Last Updated
25 November 2021 |
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