Austria, is a landlocked country of roughly 8.47 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west.
The territory of Austria covers 83,855 square kilometres (32,377 sq mi) and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft).
The majority of the population speak local Austro-Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other local official languages are Burgenland Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the Habsburg dynasty when the vast majority of the country was a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Austria became one of the great powers of Europe and, in response to the coronation of Napoleon I as the Emperor of the French, the Austrian Empire was officially proclaimed in 1804. In 1867, the Austrian Empire was reformed into Austria-Hungary.
After the collapse of the Habsburg (Austro-Hungarian) Empire in 1918 at the end of World War I, Austria adopted and used the name the Republic of German Austria ("Deutschösterreich", later "Österreich") in an attempt for union with Germany, but was forbidden due to the Treaty of Saint Germain. The First Austrian Republic was established in 1919. In the 1938 Anschluss, Austria was occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany.
This lasted until the end of World War II in 1945, after which Nazi Germany was occupied by the Allies and Austria's former democratic constitution was restored. In 1955, the Austrian State Treaty re-established Austria as a sovereign state, ending the occupation. In the same year, the Austrian Parliament created the Declaration of Neutrality which declared that the Second Austrian Republic would become permanently neutral.
Face value | Family number | English name | Scientific name
| 1925.01 | 01.06.1925 | Definitives | | |
| 20g | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | |
| 24g | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | = 20g |
| 30g | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | = 20g |
| 40g | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | = 20g |
| 45g | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | = 20g |
| 50g | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | = 20g |
| 80g | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | = 20g |
| 10g | 48 | Common Crane Grus grus | |
| 15g | 48 | Common Crane Grus grus | = 10g |
| 30g | 48 | Common Crane Grus grus | = 10g |
| 50g | 48 | Common Crane Grus grus | = 10g |
| 1s | 48 | Common Crane Grus grus | = 10g |
| 2s | 48 | Common Crane Grus grus | = 10g |
| 1926.01 | 07.09.1926 | Air | | 1925.02 |
| 3s | 48 | Common Crane Grus grus | |
| 5s | 48 | Common Crane Grus grus | |
| 10s | 48 | Common Crane Grus grus | |
| 60g | 162 | Rook Corvus frugilegus | |
| 2s | 66 | Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| 20s | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | |
| 1s | 183 | Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica | |
| 3s | 32 | Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo | |
| 5s | 37 | Common Buzzard Buteo buteo | |
| 10s | 26 | Grey Heron Ardea cinerea | |
| 1959.01 | 20.05.1959 | International hunting congress | 4v set | |
| 1s | 11 | Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus | |
| 1967.01 | 09.06.1967 | Art of the Nibelungen district | | |
| 2s | 14 | Mute Swan Cygnus olor | |
| 1978.01 | 28.04.1978 | International hunting exhibition | | |
| 6s | 11 | Black Grouse Lyrurus tetrix | |
| 1982.01 | 09.09.1982 | Endangered animals | 3v set | |
| 3s | 39 | Great Bustard Otis tarda | |
| 6s | 11 | Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus | |
| 1984.01 | 13.08.1984 | Natural beauty spots | | |
| 4s | 14 | Mute Swan Cygnus olor | |
| 1986.01 | 21.05.1986 | Richard Wagner | | |
| 4s | 14 | Mute Swan Cygnus olor | |
| 1987.01 | 25.09.1987 | Endangered animals | | |
| 4s | 37 | Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus | |
| 5s | 95 | European Bee-eater Merops apiaster | |
| 1998.01 | 06.02.1998 | Hunting and the environment | | |
| 9s | 11 | Black Grouse Lyrurus tetrix | |
| 1999.01 | 07.05.1999 | Hunting and the environment | | |
| 6.50s | 11 | Grey Partridge Perdix perdix | |
| 1999.02 | 18.06.1999 | Europa | | |
| 7s | 26 | Grey Heron Ardea cinerea | |
| and | 24 | White Stork Ciconia ciconia | |
| 2001.01 | 16.02.2001 | Hunting and the environment | | |
| 7s | 14 | Mallard Anas platyrhynchos | |
| 2002.01 | 03.06.2002 | Zoological garden Schönbrunn | 4v sheet | |
| 0.58€ | 24 | White Stork Ciconia ciconia | |
| and | 48 | Common Crane Grus grus | |
| and | | Not identified Not identified | |
| and | 37 | Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres | |
| and | 24 | Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis | |
| and | 22 | Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus | |
| and | 26 | Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca | |
| and | 29 | Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus | |
| 1.38€ | 61 | African Jacana Actophilornis africanus | |
| and | 14 | Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos | |
| 2002.02 | 25.10.2002 | Thayatal national park | | |
| 0.58€ | 24 | Black Stork Ciconia nigra | |
| 2003.01 | 11.07.2003 | World cultural heritage: Lake Neusiedler | | |
| 1€ | 26 | Great Egret Ardea alba | |
| 2005.01 | 14.09.2005 | Autumn | | |
| 55c | 78 | Little Owl Athene noctua | |
| 2006.02 | 06.11.2006 | Animals | 2v booklet, sa | |
| 55c | 25 | Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita | |
| 55c | 37 | White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla | |
| 2007.02 | 24.09.2007 | Fauna | Booklet | |
| 55c | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | |
| 2008.01 | 25.02.2008 | Fauna | 2v set, sa | |
| 65c | 92 | Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis | |
| 2008.03 | 13.06.2008 | Fauna | 2v set, sa | |
| 75c | 96 | Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops | |
| 2009.01 | 05.04.2009 | Barn Owl | sa | |
| 55c | 77 | Western Barn Owl Tyto alba | |
| 2009.02 | 28.08.2009 | Bee-eater | sa | |
| 55c | 95 | European Bee-eater Merops apiaster | |
| 2010.01 | 28.05.2010 | Roller and Golden Eagle | sa | |
| 55c | 90 | European Roller Coracias garrulus | |
| 75c | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | |
| 2011.01 | 15.06.2011 | Europa | | |
| 90c | 11 | Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus | MS |
| 2011.02 | 21.10.2011 | Burgenland | | |
| 90c | 24 | White Stork Ciconia ciconia | |
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