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Since the advent of manned flight, postal services have used birds as a common illustration for air mail stamps.^[1]

A bird stamp is a postage stamp that illustrates one or more birds. It is a popular theme in topical stamp collecting.^[2]

Birds started appearing on stamps by 1875, when Japan issued a series of three stamps bearing stylized illustrations of the three species Motacilla alba, Accipiter gentilis and bean goose.^[3]^[4] The first United States bird stamp, depicting an eagle with wings outspread, was issued in 1869 on Scott #116 and #121, on stamps that were issued for general mail usage. The UK issued its first in honor of "Nature Week" in 1963.^[3] As of 2024, over 40,000 bird stamps have been issued around the world, depicting more than 4,000 species of birds.^[5]

A prominent collector is Chris Gibbins whose collection of over twelve thousand stamps portrays about three thousand species.^[2] Organisations that cover this field include the American Topical Association and The Bird Stamp Society.^[6]

References and sources

Notes

^ Esten, Sidney (1941), "Birds on Stamps", Stamps, 35: 20
^ ^a ^b Koeppel 2006, p. 14.
^ ^a ^b Malcolm Ogilvie, "Birds on Stamps" Archived 2015-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, Birds of Britain: The Monthly Web Magazine for Birdwatchers, March 2002.
^ "1875 Bird definitive stamps of Japan". colnect.com. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
^ Scharning, Kjell. "Statistics". Theme Birds on Stamps. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
^ "The Bird Stamp Society brings bird stamp collectors together". The Bird Stamp Society. 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-17.

Sources

Bleeker, Sonia (1966), The Golden Book of Bird Stamps
Daly, Kathleen (1955), Bird Stamps
Eriksen, Hanne; Eriksen, Jens (1996), Collect Birds on Stamps, Stanley Gibbons, ISBN 9780852594087
Esten, Sidney (1954), Birds of the World on Stamps, American Topical Association
Bird Stamps of All Countries with a Natural History of Each Bird, Grosset & Dunlap, 1935
The World of Birds on Stamps, Hayes, 1975
Jackson, Christine (1978), Collecting Bird Stamps, ISBN 0854931260
Koeppel, Dan (2006), To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession, Penguin, ISBN 9781440627033
Lant, Hugh (1975), Bird Stamps of the World Check-List, ISBN 0950476803
Collect Birds on Stamps, Stanley Gibbons, 2002, ISBN 9780852595329
BIRDS ON STAMPS

External links

Birds of the World on Postage Stamps^[usurped] – Chris Gibbins' collection online

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[1] Esten, Sidney (1941), "Birds on Stamps", Stamps, 35: 20

[FOOTNOTEKoeppel200614-2] Koeppel 2006, p. 14.

[ogilvie-3] Malcolm Ogilvie, "Birds on Stamps" Archived 2015-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, Birds of Britain: The Monthly Web Magazine for Birdwatchers, March 2002.

[4] "1875 Bird definitive stamps of Japan". colnect.com. Retrieved 2015-11-18.

[kjell-5] Scharning, Kjell. "Statistics". Theme Birds on Stamps. Retrieved 15 June 2024.

[6] "The Bird Stamp Society brings bird stamp collectors together". The Bird Stamp Society. 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-17.

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+[[File:1,2 June 2024 Flight 5-6-24.png|center|thumb|The Bird Stamp Society publishes Flight four times a year.]]
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 *{{citation |title=The Golden Book of Bird Stamps |first=Sonia |last=Bleeker |year=1966}}
 *{{citation |title=Bird Stamps |first=Kathleen |last=Daly |year=1955}}
 *{{citation |title=Collect Birds on Stamps |first1=Hanne |last1=Eriksen |first2=Jens|last2=Eriksen |publisher=Stanley Gibbons |year=1996 |isbn=9780852594087}}
 *{{citation |title=Birds of the World on Stamps |first=Sidney |last=Esten |publisher=American Topical Association |year=1954}}
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 *{{citation |title=Bird Stamps of the World Check-List |isbn=0950476803 |first=Hugh |last=Lant |year=1975}}
 *{{citation |title=Collect Birds on Stamps |publisher=Stanley Gibbons |year=2002 |isbn=9780852595329}}
+*[https://birdstampsociety.org.uk/ BIRDS ON STAMPS]
 ==External links==
-*[http://www.bird-stamps.org/ Birds of the World on Postage Stamps] – Chris Gibbins' collection online
+*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/19990428065259/http://www.bird-stamps.org/ Birds of the World on Postage Stamps]}} – Chris Gibbins' collection online
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-{{Birds on stamps}}
 [[Category:Birds on stamps]]
 [[Category:Topical postage stamps]]