The Biology Unit is dedicated to the international cooperative study of biological postage stamps and related material.
The journal Biophilately covers new zoological and botanical stamp issues worldwide.
On this site you will find a listing of cinderella stamps that depict birds. Most of the items listed
will not be found in the standard annual catalogs issued by Gibbons, Michel, Scott or Yvert.
The Bird Stamp Society was formed in 1986 to cater for the large number of collectors who specialise
in bird stamps and relevant material. The Society`s focal point is the quarterly house journal Flight,
which runs to some 50-60 A4 pages. It carries a variety of features, some regular and some special
to the issue. An important regular feature is listing - and attempting identification - of all birds
on stamps discovered in the previous quarter.
The primary purpose of the National Duck Stamp Collectors Society (NDSCS) is to promote and encourage
the collecting and study of migratory waterfowl hunting and conservation stamps. The NDSCS is the only
stamp collecting society devoted exclusively to duck stamps.
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.