There are people who race around the world to see thousands of the more than 10,000 different species of birds there are. There are others who tick the birds they see or hear on television. And it occurred to me how nice it would be if we could share the postcards we have sent and received with birds on them to create a bird postcard list.
I can start it off with this postcard I received from Mexico today:
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I sent these two
And I received from Germany
And from USA
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only cards sent officially or any? ^^
If any I have a nicly sorted album of a small part of my collection here. No time to keep it up to date well
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I would love to know the names of the two birds from Sri Lanka. I recognise the others.
Rina66
July 25, 2023, 3:03pm
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Recieved this beauty today
would like to know what the tekst say
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I will answer you ^^
second one is I think a cattle egreat
B. i. ibis (Linnaeus, 1758)
B. i. coromandus (Boddaert, 1783)
B. i. seychellarum (Salomonsen, 1934)
Ardea ibis Linnaeus, 1758
Ardeola ibis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bubulcus bubulcus
Buphus coromandus (Boddaert, 1783)
Cancroma coromanda (Boddaert, 1783)
Egretta ibis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lepterodatis ibis (Linnaeus, 1758)
The cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a cosmopolitan species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics, and warm-temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic g...
and I assume the first should be of the Lanius family but not sure which exactly. Maybe Prithika can confirm or correct ^^
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Rina66
July 25, 2023, 3:15pm
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nice bird Bearded Vulture / Bardgeier
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Rina66
July 25, 2023, 3:18pm
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and in june I recieved this Raven
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pcronn
July 25, 2023, 3:32pm
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I’ve noted on my profile I like birds, so I’ve gotten a few
I’ve only sent a couple:
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As @Tetsuko said the first one is Brown Shrike belongs to Lanius family
and the second one is Cattle Egret
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Tetsuko:
I will answer you ^^
Marvellous. Thanks very much for your help.
Thank you @Prithika as well. I thought it looked like some sort of shrike.
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This is on its way to me (I had it printed and made into postcards)
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We have them here, ‘Myna’. Lots of them are usually coming to our home gardens. Very commonly see in Sri Lanka
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Birds fly around my wall
sent so far:
Do these count as birds of the world, too?
received:
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Eef_NL
July 25, 2023, 4:58pm
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Lovely topic @Florallle for I am a massive bird lover.
Here’s a selection of some of my favourites I have sent:
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Hemang
July 25, 2023, 5:21pm
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Beautiful Postcards everyone, i would like to suggest all to add name of the bird in image description in future outgoings:) it’ll be very helpful in future
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