Bird stamp

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

Bird stamps are postage stamps which feature the picture of a bird.

Birds are the most popular theme for stamp collectors. A prominent collector is Chris Gibbins whose collection of over twelve thousand stamps portrays about three thousand species.

References

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

External links

• Birds of the World on Postage Stamps – Chris Gibbins' collection online