Welcome to my collection. My topic is birds and I collect mostly covers but I will show you a variety of philatelic material that is part my collection.

Showing posts with label Zaire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zaire. Show all posts

Saturday, 29 May 2010

This stamp is part of a set issued in 1982 by Zaire. The bird is Three-banded Plover (Charadrius tricollaris). It lives in Madagascar and southern Africa in rivers and lakes and it feeds on insects, worms and other invertebrates. It has a subspecies.
Unfortunately the postmark is not clear.