Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Nature Reserves of the USSR - Water Birds - Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra) - USSR, Soviet Union 1976 - Michel USSR 4508 - my hobby
Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Nature Reserves of the USSR - Water Birds - Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra) - USSR, Soviet Union 1976 - Michel USSR 4508 - my hobby.
Greetings friends!
For me, philately, it is not only an opportunity to assemble a series of postage stamps of certain countries, years, themes, but also a kind of challenge for me, a competition.
I am happy when animals, birds, or other objects that I see on postage stamps from my collection appear in my photographs.
For example, today we will see another postage stamp with a face value of 4 kopecks of the USSR from series Nature Reserves of the USSR - Water Birds , issued in the USSR in 1976.
On this postage stamp, which shows us the inhabitant of the Krasnovodsk reserve, we see - Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra).
This bird is presented as an object of special protection, but fortunately, I can say that today there are a lot of these birds in different regions, wherever there is water and coastal vegetation.
I took these photographs in Moldova.
They capture the moment when the coots were left without their home, the city services decided to clean the lake of reeds.
The birds ran along the embankments and could not understand what was happening to their lake.
In Ukraine, in the city where I live today, there is a small river where I often see large families of coots.
They love to run over the leaves of water lilies.
Coots are often called water chicks and are the subject of hunting, but in urban areas, these birds feel protected.
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, #reserve, #ussr.
Series: Nature Reserves of the USSR - Water Birds.
Name: Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 4 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 4508.
Episode release date: August 18, 1976.
Perforation: comb 12 x 12½.
Postage stamp size: 31 x 42.5 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 5,600,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.28 - $ 0.55.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.12 - $ 0.24.
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, #reserve, #ussr.
Series: Nature Reserves of the USSR - Water Birds.
Name: Black-throated Loon (Gavia arctica).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 3 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 4507.
Episode release date: August 18, 1976.
Perforation: comb 12 x 12½.
Postage stamp size: 31 x 42.5 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 6,500,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.20 - $ 0.41.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.05 - $ 0.16.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Clean postage stamp
To be continued.
You can see the development of the story of my postage stamp collection on my Leofinance blog
I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone.
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