Sunday 29 January 2017

SULTANATE of OMAN

A very nice cover from Oman, with 8 Flora stamps. All stamps are part of a set of 16 stamps issued in 2004.

SULTANATE of OMAN

A very nice cover from Oman, with 8 Flora stamps. All stamps are part of a set of 16 stamps issued in 2004.

Saturday 28 January 2017

SULTANATE of OMAN

An amazing and colourful cover from Oman, with 8 bird stamps on it. All stamps are part of a set of 16 stamps issued in 2002.

SULTANATEof OMAN

An amazing and colourful cover from Oman, with 8 bird stamps on it. All stamps are part of a set of 16 stamps issued in 2002.

LATVIA

A nice cover from Latvia, showing a nice Flora set of 2 stamps issued in 2009. Both stamps have tabs with Birds on  it.

Thursday 26 January 2017

SULTANATE of OMAN

A beautiful and colourful cover from Oman, with a complet set issued in 2000 on topic "Marine Life of Oman", showing 6 different species of fish of this arabic country.

ESTONIA

A Fauna cover from Estonia, depicting 3 different issues from different years: a 2013 stamp with the Least Weasel (Mustela nivalis), a 2014 stamp with the Northern hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) and finally a beautiful minisheet on topic "Protection of the Baltic sea natural ennvironment", showing a common seal (phoca vitulina) over a small rock.

MALAYSIA

An interesting cover from Malaysia with a Flora miniature sheet issued in 2014 celebrating the World Youth Stamp Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia.

Wednesday 25 January 2017

SULTANATE of OMAN

Another very nice cover from Oman, showing a complete set issued in 2000 on topic "Butterflies".

SULTANATE of OMAN

A very nice cover from Oman, showing a complete set issued in 1999 on topic "Butterflies".

LATVIA

A Fauna cover from Latvia, with a complete set issued in 2009 showing 2 stamps with Fauna of Latvia: wolf (Canis Lupus) on the left and the European Hare (Lepus europaeus) on the right.

LATVIA

A Fauna cover from Latvia, with a complete set issued in 2008 showing 2 stamps with Fauna of Latvia: the pine martens (Martes Martes) on the left and the Eurasian beaver (Castor Fiber) on the right.

Tuesday 24 January 2017

PORTUGAL

A beautiful UNESCO cover from Portugal, with a miniature sheet depicting the 17th. century fortresses of the border city of Elvas, classified by UNESCO as World Heritage site for its uniqueness in the world.
The site, extensively fortified from the 17th to 19th centuries, represents the largest bulwarked dry ditch system in the world. Within its walls, the town contains barracks and other militar buildings as well as churches and monasteries. While Elvas contains remains dating back to the 10th century A.D., its fortification began when Portugal regained Independence in 1640. The fortifications designed by dutch jesuits represent the best surviving example of the dutch school of fortifications anywhere.


Resultado de imagem para fortaleza de elvas

INDIA

A cover from India, showing a complete set of 2 stamps issued in 2016 on topic "Clean India Mission".

Monday 23 January 2017

LATVIA

A nice Fauna cover from Latvia, showing a complete set issued in 2006 with 2 mamals from latvian forests: the Eurasian lynx (lynx lynx) on the left and the red deer (cervus elaphus) on the right.

TAIWAN

Another Fauna cover from Taiwan, this one with the miniature sheet from 2014 depicting the "Swinhoe's pheasant" bird.

TAIWAN

A Fauna cover from Taiwan with a complete set of 4 stamps (from year 2014) showing the Swinhoe's pheasant bird.

Sunday 22 January 2017

LATVIA

A WWF Fauna cover from Latvia, with a complete set from 1994 showing 4 stamps with the "Edible Dormouse" (Glis Glis).
The Edible Dormouse is the largest of all dormice, being around 14 to 19 cm in headbody lenght, plus a 11 top 13 cm long tail.The edible dormouse is found throughout muc of mainland Westermn Europe.It is also found on a number of Mediterranean islands and it is rather more sparsely distributed through Central Europe and the Balkans.


Resultado de imagem para Edible Dormouse" (Glis Glis).Resultado de imagem para Edible Dormouse" (Glis Glis).


LATVIA

A Fauna cover from Latvia, showing a complete set with Butterflies issued with 1996.

LATVIA

A Bird cover from Latvia, showing a single stamps from year 2003 with the White Wgtail (Motacilla Alba)

Saturday 21 January 2017

LATVIA

Another cover from Latvia with 4 stamps of same type, celebrating the Green Week Exhibition in Berlin (year 2014).

LATVIA

A nice cover from Latvia, showing a complete set from year 2014 with 2 endemic birds: the Jack snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus) on the left, and the Eurasian hoopoe (upupa epops) on the right.

Friday 20 January 2017

RUSSIA

A nice Fauna cover from Russia, depicting a joint issue with Belarus from year 2012, both stamps showing endemic species of anphibians. There are also 2 small defintive stamps (2008), moose (Alces alces) on the left and brown bear (ursus arctos) on the right.

Thursday 19 January 2017

MALAYSIA

Another Fauna cover from Malaysia, dipicting a miniature sheet issued in 2014 to commemorate the 2014 Kuala Lumpur Youth Stam Exhibition and showing local fauna: the bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and malayan tiger (pantera tigris jacksoni)


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MALAYSIA

A nice cover from Malaysia, showing a complete set of 3 stamps (issued in 2016) celebrating Chinese New Year of the Monkey. The malaysian primates featured on stamps are the Silvered Leaf Monkey, Macaque and White-handed Gibbon:

# Silvered Leaf Monkey
Silvered leaf monkeys are small monkeys with long tails and silvery fur. The silvered leaf monkeys are easily recognisable due to its dark, silver-tipped fur and dark-skinned face. They live in the mangrove and subcoastal forests on the Malaysian Peninsula. Silvered leaf monkeys are arboreal, which means they stick primarily to trees, leaving only when they have to. Males usually live alone, with a group of all males or with a group of all females.
# Macaque Monkeys
Macaques live in many different habitats across the globe, making them the most widely distributed genus of nonhuman primates. Macaques have a very intricate social structure and hierarchy. Macaques are commonly used in research particularly in the neuroscience of visual perception and the visual system.
# White-handed gibbon
A beautiful and captivating primate, the white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) is a master of agility. The white-handed gibbon possesses the long arms and hands typical of gibbon species, which are perfectly suited to this pendulous swinging from branch to branch.


Tuesday 17 January 2017

MALAYSIA

A nice Fauna cover from Malaysia, depicting 4 beautiful and coloured stamps with marine life (joint issue with Thailnad from year 2015).

Saturday 14 January 2017

NORWAY

A nice cover from Norway, showing a complete set from 2017 with topic "Birds of prey": Merlin (left stamp) and "Eurasian hobby" (right stamp)

INDONESIA

A nice cover from Indonesia, showing a 2013 complete issue with topic "Indonesian blue helmet soldiers"

SLOVENIA

Another Fauna cover from Slovenia. On this cover we can see one stamp and 1 small sheet from a set of 4 issued in 2015 showing two species of slovenian rodents.

SLOVENIA

A Fauna cover from Slovenia, depicting two stamps from a set of 4 issued in 2015 showing two species of slovenian rodents.

Wednesday 11 January 2017

KAZAKHSTAN

A cover from Kazakhstan with several interesting stamps: one minisheet from year 2016 celebrating the international year of monkey (chinese zodiac), a set of 2 stamps with National festivities (horse races) and 1 single stamp from year 2013.

Tuesday 10 January 2017

BRAZIL

This is my first Fauna cover from Brazil, depicting a complete set issued in 2014, both stamps celebrating diplomatic relations between Brazil and Philippines. Left side stamp shows the "Great black hawk", a residente breeding bird from South and Central America. Right side stamp shows the Philippine Eagle.



POLAND

A very interesting Fauna cover from Poland, showing a beautiful miniature sheet with some photos of african wildlife by polish photographer Tomasz Gudzowaty.

Monday 9 January 2017

CHILE

A very nice WWF Fauna cover from Chile, showing a 1984 complete set with 4 different endangered species: sea lion, huemul, chinchila and Blue whale.

Resultado de imagem para sea lionResultado de imagem para huemul deer
Resultado de imagem para chinchillaResultado de imagem para blue whale

Monday 2 January 2017

MALAYSIA

A Fauna cover from Malaysia, showing a complet set with 3 different species of roosters (Gallus Gallus)

Sunday 1 January 2017

LITHUANIA

Another cover from Lithuania, this one with EUROPA set issued in 2016 on theme "Think green".

LITHUANIA

A cover from Lithuania with a small sheet showing the "Zematukai", a species of lithuanian horse. This nice miniature sheet was issued in 2016.