From USPS stamps in the USA:
The U.S. Postal Service celebrates ten melodic voices with the Songbirds stamps: the western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta), the mountain bluebird (Sialia currucoides), the western tanager (Piranga ludoviciana), the painted bunting (Passerina ciris), the Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula), the evening grosbeak (Coccothraustes vespertinus), the scarlet tanager (Piranga olivacea), the rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus), the American goldfinch (Spinus tristis), and the white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis).
Each colorful bird is shown perching on a fence post or branch embellished with vines, pinecones, leaves, or flowers. The artwork appears against a plain, white background.
Why do songbirds make such a glorious racket every morning? In a word, love. Males sing to attract females, and to warn rivals to keep out of their territory. Between 4,000 and 4,500 different types of songbirds can be found around the planet, accounting for nearly half of all bird species. Songbirds are identified by their highly developed vocal organs, although some, like the crow, have harsh voices, and others sing rarely, or not at all. All songbirds are classified as perching birds. With three toes that point forward and one that points backward, they can grip branches, grasses, or telephone wires with ease.
Illustrator Robert Giusti painted the portraits, based on photographs. Art director Derry Noyes designed the stamps.
Songbirds will be issued as Forever® stamps in booklets of 20. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce rate.
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These are so pretty 🙂
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Indeed. I hope the stamps help for conservation of these birds.
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Beautifully illustrated stamps!!
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Indeed!
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Collecting stamps has been an endearing passion of mine. My work requires me to travel to different countries, something which is not really bad if you look at it a brighter perspective. Although my visits are mostly work related, I often try to make sure that I collect some postal stamps from the country I visit which I then frame and hang at home. This gives me at least something to remember from the time I have been at a certain country. These days though, I am moving up in stamp collecting as I am now in the attempts to collect themed stamps, particularly ones that involve birds. I am currently looking into getting the Brazil Tropical Birds stamp collection from 1973 and will slowly work my way up into collecting more Bird themed stamps.
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Talking about Brazil tropical birds:
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