Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is 34 kilometres (21 mi) in length and as much as 23 kilometres (14 mi) in width, amounting to 431 square kilometres (166 sq mi).
It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; there in, it is about 168 kilometres (104 mi) east of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and 400 kilometres (250 mi) north-east of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados is outside of the principal Atlantic hurricane belt.
Barbados was initially visited by the Spanish around the late 1400s to early 1500s and first appears on a Spanish map from 1511.The Spanish explorers may have plundered the island of whatever native peoples resided therein to become slaves.
Thereafter, the Portuguese in 1536 then visited, but they too left it unclaimed, with their only remnants being an introduction of wild hogs for a good supply of meat whenever the island was visited. The first English ship, the Olive Blossom, arrived in Barbados in 1624. They took possession of it in the name of 'James I, King of England'. Two years later in 1627 the first permanent settlers arrived from England and it became an English and later British colony.
Barbados has an estimated population of 284,000 people, with around 80,000 living in or around Bridgetown, the largest city and the country's capital. In 1966, Barbados became an independent state and Commonwealth realm, retaining Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State.
Barbados is one of the Caribbean's leading tourist destinations and is one of the most developed islands in the region, with an HDI number of 0.788. In 2011 Barbados ranked 2nd in The Americas (16th globally) on Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index.
Face value | Family number | English name | Scientific name
| 1c | 232 | Grassland Yellow Finch Sicalis luteola | |
| 2c | 119 | Grey Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis | |
| 5c | 232 | Barbados Bullfinch Loxigilla barbadensis | |
| 8c | 30 | Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens | |
| 10c | 26 | Western Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis | |
| 12c | 26 | Green Heron Butorides virescens | |
| 20c | 86 | Antillean Crested Hummingbird Orthorhyncus cristatus | |
| 25c | 70 | Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina | |
| 28c | 229 | Carib Grackle Quiscalus lugubris | |
| 35c | 86 | Green-throated Carib Eulampis holosericeus | |
| 45c | 70 | Zenaida Dove Zenaida aurita | |
| 50c | 70 | Scaly-naped Pigeon Patagioenas squamosa | |
| 70c | 230 | Bananaquit Coereba flaveola | |
| 1$ | 119 | Caribbean Elaenia Elaenia martinica | |
| 2.50$ | 227 | American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla | |
| 5$ | 92 | Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon | |
| 10$ | 46 | Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata | |
| 55c | 58 | American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica | |
| 1982.01 | 01.02.1982 | Surcharge on 1979.01 | | |
| 15c | 229 | Carib Grackle Quiscalus lugubris | |
| 40c | 70 | Zenaida Dove Zenaida aurita | |
| 60c | 230 | Bananaquit Coereba flaveola | |
| 1982.02 | 01.03.1982 | New face value | | 1979.01 |
| 15c | 229 | Carib Grackle Quiscalus lugubris | |
| 40c | 70 | Scaly-naped Pigeon Patagioenas squamosa | |
| 60c | 230 | Bananaquit Coereba flaveola | |
| 1984.01 | 24.10.1984 | Christmas flowers | 4v set | |
| 1$ | 86 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris | |
| 1985.01 | 06.08.1985 | Audubon | | |
| 45c | 38 | Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus | |
| 65c | 227 | Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor | |
| 75c | 26 | Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias | |
| 1$ | 227 | American Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva | |
| 1987.01 | 12.06.1987 | Capex '87 | | |
| 25c | 183 | Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica | |
| 50c | 227 | American Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva | |
| 65c | 18 | Audubon's Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri | |
| 75c | 157 | Black-whiskered Vireo Vireo altiloquus | |
| 1$ | 232 | Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea | |
| 10c | 227 | American Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva | |
| 20c | 227 | American Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva | |
| 45c | 227 | American Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva | |
| 1$ | 227 | American Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva | |
| 1994.01 | 18.02.1994 | Hong Kong '94 | | |
| 10c | 64 | Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus | |
| 35c | 58 | Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva | |
| 70c | 64 | Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres | |
| 3$ | 26 | Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor | |
| 10c | 58 | Piping Plover Charadrius melodus | |
| 45c | 58 | Piping Plover Charadrius melodus | |
| 50c | 58 | Piping Plover Charadrius melodus | |
| 70c | 58 | Piping Plover Charadrius melodus | |
| 2000.01 | 22.05.2000 | Definitives | 14v set | |
| 3$ | 11 | Indian Peafowl Pavo cristatus | |
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