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Bird stamps from Bermuda.

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Published by Unknown | Thursday, May 31, 2012
Bermuda, officially the Bermudas or Somers Islands, is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about 1,030 kilometres (640 mi) to the west-northwest. It is about 1,373 kilometres (853 mi) south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and 1,770 kilometres (1,100 mi) northeast of Miami, Florida.

Its capital city is Hamilton. Bermuda was discovered in 1505 by Spanish sea captain Juan de Bermúdez, after whom the islands are named, who claimed it for the Spanish Empire.

Although he paid two visits to the archipelago, Bermúdez never set foot on the uninhabited islands because of the dangerous reef that surrounded most of the islands. Subsequent Spanish or other visitors are believed to have released the feral pigs that were abundant on the island when settlement began.

The archipelago was settled by England in 1609, by the Virginia Company, which had established Jamestown on the Continent two years earlier.

Administered as an extension of Virginia by the Virginia Company until 1614, and by its successor, the Somers Isles Company, from 1615 until 1684, Bermuda became a British colony following the 1707 unification of the Kingdom of England with the Kingdom of Scotland to create the unified Kingdom of Great Britain.

Since Virginia's independence, Bermuda is the oldest (and since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997, the most populous) remaining British overseas territory. Its first capital, St George's, was established in 1612 and is the oldest continuously-inhabited English town in the Americas.

Bermuda has an affluent economy, with off-shore finance as its largest sector, followed by tourism.

In 2005 Bermuda claimed to have the world's highest GDP per capita, but these statistics are difficult to verify as Bermuda is classified as a territory of the UK rather than an independent country. It has a subtropical climate.

Bermuda makes up the easternmost point of the so-called "Bermuda Triangle," a region of sea in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels have allegedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The island is prone to severe weather and powerful hurricanes, with widespread power outages.

Face value | Family number | English name | Scientific name
1941.01   18.12.1941   Definitives      
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
7½d     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     
1953.01   09.11.1953   Definitives      
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
6d     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     
1953.02   26.11.1953   Inscription ROYAL VISIT 1953 on 1953.01      
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
6d     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     
1955.01   16.05.1955   Definitives      1953.01
8d     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     
1956.01   22.06.1956   Overprint 50th ANNIV... on 1955.01      
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
8d     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     
1978.01   15.11.1978   Wildlife      
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow
3c     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     p 14
4c     157     White-eyed Vireo    Vireo griseus     
5c     211     Eastern Bluebird    Sialia sialis     
8c     233     Northern Cardinal    Cardinalis cardinalis     
5$     18     Bermuda Petrel    Pterodroma cahow     
1983.01   03.08.1983   Wildlife      1978.01
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
3c     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     p 14x14½
1985.01   28.03.1985   Audubon      
Western Osprey Pandion haliaetus Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea Great Egret Ardea alba Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
12c     36     Western Osprey    Pandion haliaetus     
30c     26     Yellow-crowned Night Heron    Nyctanassa violacea     
40c     26     Great Egret    Ardea alba     
1.50$     211     Eastern Bluebird    Sialia sialis     
1995.01   06.02.1995   Decimal currency anniversary   4v set   
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
2$     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     
1997.01   17.04.1997   Bird conservation      
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow
30c     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     
60c     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     
80c     18     Bermuda Petrel    Pterodroma cahow     
2.50$     18     Bermuda Petrel    Pterodroma cahow     
2001.01   01.02.2001   WWF      1997.01
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
15c     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     
15c     18     Bermuda Petrel    Pterodroma cahow     
20c     18     Bermuda Petrel    Pterodroma cahow     
20c     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     
2005.01   18.08.2005   Habitats      
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
10c     64     Ruddy Turnstone    Arenaria interpres     
and     64     Semipalmated Sandpiper    Calidris pusilla     
25c     26     Least Bittern    Ixobrychus exilis     
35c     23     White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus     
70c     211     Eastern Bluebird    Sialia sialis     
85c     78     Northern Saw-whet Owl    Aegolius acadicus     
1$     26     Yellow-crowned Night Heron    Nyctanassa violacea     









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Bird stamps from Berlin, West.

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Published by Unknown | Friday, May 25, 2012
West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990.

It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945.

It was politically closely affiliated with West Germany, although it had a special status, because its administration was formally conducted by the Western Allies. East Berlin encompassed the region occupied and administered by the Soviet Union, and was claimed as capital by East Germany. The Western Allies did not recognise this claim, as they asserted that the entire city of Berlin was legally under four-power administration.

The Berlin Wall, built in 1961, physically divided East and West Berlin until it fell in 1989. With about two million inhabitants, West Berlin had the highest number of residents of any city in Cold War-era Germany.The Potsdam Agreement established the legal framework for the occupation of Germany in the wake of World War II. According to the agreement, Germany would be formally under the administration of the four major wartime Allies—the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union—until a German government acceptable to all parties would be established.

The territory of Germany, as it existed in 1937, would be reduced by most of Eastern Germany thus creating the former eastern territories of Germany. The remaining territory would be divided into four zones, each administered by one of the allied countries. Berlin, which was surrounded by the Soviet zone of occupation—newly established in most of Middle Germany—would be similarly divided, with the Western Allies occupying an enclave consisting of the western parts of the city. According to the agreement, the occupation of Berlin would end only as a result of a quadripartite agreement.

The Western Allies were guaranteed three air corridors to their sectors of Berlin, and the Soviets also informally allowed road and rail access between West Berlin and the western parts of Germany (see section on traffic). At first, this arrangement was officially only meant to be a temporary administrative structure, with all parties declaring that Germany and Berlin would soon be reunited. However, as the relations between the western allies and the Soviet Union soured and the Cold War began, the joint administration of Germany and Berlin broke down. Soon Soviet-occupied Berlin and western-occupied Berlin had separate city administrations.

In 1948, the Soviets tried to force the Western Allies out of Berlin by imposing a land blockade on the western sectors: the Berlin Blockade. The West responded by using its air corridors for supplying their part of the city with food and other goods in the Berlin Airlift. In May 1949, the Soviets lifted the blockade, and West Berlin as a separate city with its own jurisdiction was maintained. By the end of 1949, two new states had been created out of occupied Germany—the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in the West and the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) in the East—with West Berlin an enclave surrounded by, but not part of, the GDR.

Face value | Family number | English name | Scientific name
1965.01   01.04.1965   Child welfare      Germany, West 1965.01
Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus Black Grouse Lyrurus tetrix Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus
10p     64     Eurasian Woodcock    Scolopax rusticola     
15p     11     Common Pheasant    Phasianus colchicus     
20p     11     Black Grouse    Lyrurus tetrix     
40p     11     Western Capercaillie    Tetrao urogallus     
1969.01   04.06.1969   Berlin Zoo   4v sheet   
Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus
20p     29     Dalmatian Pelican    Pelecanus crispus     
1973.01   06.02.1973   Youth welfare      
Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos
20p     37     Northern Goshawk    Accipiter gentilis     
30p     38     Peregrine Falcon    Falco peregrinus     
40p     37     Eurasian Sparrowhawk    Accipiter nisus     
70p     37     Golden Eagle    Aquila chrysaetos     
1984.01   19.06.1984   Alfred Brehm      
White Stork Ciconia ciconia
80p     24     White Stork    Ciconia ciconia     








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Bird stamps from Bequia.

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Published by Unknown | Monday, May 21, 2012
Bequia is the largest island in the Grenadines.

It is part of the country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and is approximately 15 km from the nation's capital, Kingstown,and is nine miles away from st.vincent. The island capital is Port Elizabeth 13°00′N 61°16′W.

Other villages on the island are Paget Farm, Lower Bay, La Pompe, Hamilton, Mount Pleasant and Belmont. The total population is about 4,300, the native population being primarily a mixture of people of African, Scottish and Carib Indian descent.

A substantial number of white Barbadians were also sent as settlers to Bequia in the 1860s. A number of them built homes in the Mount Pleasant area where many of their descendants still live today. The island is very small, measuring some 7 square miles (18 km2).

The main population areas are Port Elizabeth and Paget Farm which host the Ferry Terminal and Airport respectively. Other prominent areas of Bequia include Spring, site of a former coconut plantation and home to agricultural animals, Industry Bay, Lower Bay and Park Bay,The Old Hegg Turtle Sanctuary is located here. Princess Margaret, who had a home on nearby Mustique, visited Bequia and had a beach named in her honour. Princess Margaret Beach is next to Port Elizabeth and is situated inside Admiralty Bay. Bequia means "island of the clouds" in the ancient Arawak.

The island's name was also 'Becouya' as part of the Granadilles. The islands' unofficial anthem is considered to be 'Only in Bequia,' by island native Raphael "Socony" Holder. The island's hills are much lower than the peaks of St. Vincent, 10 miles (16 km) to the north, so they do not receive as many rain showers. The main port Admiralty Bay, a large natural harbour, and the "town" Port Elizabeth are situated on the west coast.


Face value | Family number | English name | Scientific name
2003.01   01.12.2003   Birds of the Caribbean      
Western Spindalis Spindalis zena Gartered Trogon Trogon caligatus Western Barn Owl Tyto alba Inca Jay Cyanocorax yncas
90c     231     Western Spindalis    Spindalis zena     
1$     88     Gartered Trogon    Trogon caligatus     
1.40$     77     Western Barn Owl    Tyto alba     
2$     162     Inca Jay    Cyanocorax yncas     
2003.02   01.12.2003   Birds of the Caribbean      
Montezuma Oropendola Psarocolius montezuma
5$     228     Montezuma Oropendola    Psarocolius montezuma     MS
2011.01   Birds of the world   Sheet   
Corn Crake Crex crex Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos Carrion Crow Corvus corone Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
2.75$     46     Corn Crake    Crex crex     
2.75$     37     Golden Eagle    Aquila chrysaetos     
2.75$     162     Carrion Crow    Corvus corone     
and     162     Hooded Crow    Corvus cornix     
2.75$     188     Willow Warbler    Phylloscopus trochilus     
2011.02   Birds of the world      
Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
6$     183     Red-rumped Swallow    Cecropis daurica     MS
2011.03   Birds of the world, eggs   Sheet   

Ruff Philomachus pugnax Common Murre Uria aalge Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
3$     64     Ruff    Philomachus pugnax     
3$     68     Common Murre    Uria aalge     
3$     32     Great Cormorant    Phalacrocorax carbo     
2011.04   Birds of the world, eggs      
Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
6$     119     Great Crested Flycatcher    Myiarchus crinitus     MS





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