SOUTHERN AFRICAN BIRDS ON STAMPS

THE BIRDS COUNTRIES COLLECTION
NEW SPECIES ARTICLES CONTACTS
BIRD NAMES   NEW ON WEB

Orange-breasted Bush Shrike

 This site specializes in stamps featuring Southern African Birds, more particularly those birds that appear 
in "Roberts Birds of Southern Africa".  Nearly 7 200 stamps have been issued with Southern African birds
 on them.  The majority of these stamps are detailed here, together with numerous stamps
 from African countries featuring non Southern African birds.

The website was last updated April 2008 - see "New on Web" for additions.
Green Backed Woodpecker (Little Spotted Woodpecker)
 and Angola Swallow have now been added to the collection
I have now collected 589 different SA birds on stamps (possible 592 issued)

One of the new issues from South Africa's rather shambolic programme for 2007
 is the International Polar Year featuring an Emperor Penguin,
 which has been incorrectly named as a King Penguin

 I am still building my collection and am very happy to swap sets
from the SA countries with collectors from other parts of the world.
Please note that I am a collector and not a dealer and generally do not sell any stamps

 I would welcome comment on any of the items covered.

Graham Burrows