Travel the World of Postage Stamps - 18th International Ornithological Congress - Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana) - USSR, Soviet Union 1982 - Michel USSR 5186 - my hobby.
Greetings friends!
When looking at stamps and studying them, sometimes you see some oddities.
For example, on a postage stamp with a denomination of 32 kopecks of the USSR, from series 18th International Ornithological Congress, issued in 1982 in the same USSR, we see Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana).
This postage stamp will complete this series and open the way for us to new journeys in the world of postage stamps.
The fact is that the stork has no natural enemies, and since the bird was included in the Red Book, this means that the population of these birds in 1982 was critical.
Perhaps my mother, who was born in 1953 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, saw these birds, but I did not manage to visit her homeland, it is too far away.
But, I had the opportunity to photograph the closest relatives of the Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana) - white storks, which nest everywhere.
The lifestyle of both birds is the same and they are very similar to each other.
The main difference in these birds is that the adult, Far Eastern storks have a black beak, while the white stork has a red beak, but the chicks have the opposite.
The chicks of the white stork have a black beak, while the chicks of the Far Eastern asth have a red beak.
I think that in the Far East there was a legend that storks bring babies to people, so, earlier, they told children about how they were born.
Storks are peaceful birds, but they are active predators destroying frogs, snakes, mice and other creatures that can wait on people.
Storks often settle near human dwellings and are not afraid of people.
For people, the stork does not represent nutritional value and. probably this is what makes it possible, today, to see even white storks.
While I was writing this post, an anecdote was born to me: White storks have a red beak, because they do not eat red caviar like Far Eastern storks, and Far Eastern storks have a black beak because they are tired of red caviar and they want to live where sturgeons live. These are the fastidious Far Eastern storks.
Let's take a look at this postage stamp.
Description of the postage stamp:
Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: USSR, Soviet Union.
Subject: #Birds, #Nature, #Fauna, #Conferences, #USSR.
Series: 18th International Ornithological Congress.
Name: Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 32 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5186.
Episode release date: June 15, 1982.
Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼.
Postage stamp size: 30 x 42 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 5,500,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.33 - $ 0.78.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.15 - $ 0.23.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Clean postage stamp
Previous postage stamp from this series and a link to its description:
Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: USSR, Soviet Union.
Subject: #Birds, #Nature, #Fauna, #Conferences, #USSR.
Series: 18th International Ornithological Congress.
Name: Sociable Plover (Chettusia gregaria).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 10 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5185.
Episode release date: June 15, 1982.
Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼.
Postage stamp size: 30 x 42 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 5,800,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.24 - $ 0.47.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.09 - $ 0.23.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Clean postage stamp
Previous postage stamp from this series and a link to its description:
Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: USSR, Soviet Union.
Subject: #Birds, #Nature, #Fauna, #Conferences, #USSR.
Series: 18th International Ornithological Congress.
Name: Bar-headed Goose (Anser indicus).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 10 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5184.
Episode release date: June 10, 1982.
Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼.
Postage stamp size: 30 x 42 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 6,800,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.17 - $ 0.34.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.04 - $ 0.13.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Clean postage stamp
Previous postage stamp from this series and a link to its description:
Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: USSR, Soviet Union.
Subject: #Birds, #Nature, #Fauna, #Conferences, #USSR.
Series: 18th International Ornithological Congress.
Name: Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 6 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5183.
Episode release date: June 10, 1982.
Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼.
Postage stamp size: 30 x 42 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 6,900,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.17 - $ 0.34.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.04 - $ 0.13.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Clean postage stamp
Previous postage stamp from this series and a link to its description:
Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: USSR, Soviet Union.
Subject: #Birds, #Nature, #Fauna, #Conferences, #USSR.
Series: 18th International Ornithological Congress.
Name: Steller's Sea-eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 4 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5182.
Episode release date: June 10, 1982.
Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼.
Postage stamp size: 30 x 42 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 6,900,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.17 - $ 0.34.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.04 - $ 0.13.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Clean postage stamp
Previous postage stamp from this series and a link to its description:
Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: USSR, Soviet Union.
Subject: #Birds, #Nature, #Fauna, #Conferences, #USSR.
Series: 18th International Ornithological Congress.
Name: Hooded Crane (Grus monacha).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 2 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5181.
Episode release date: June 10, 1982.
Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼.
Postage stamp size: 30 x 42 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 9,000,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.18 - $ 0.32.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.03 - $ 0.12.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Clean postage stamp
To be continued.
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