World Birds' Postcard List

I’ve sent these:

Not sure if the last two count… they are lenticular cards!

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Oh I have hundreds of birds - a sample

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What a lovely thread, thanks for starting it! :dove: :eagle: :duck: :swan: :owl: :flamingo:

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What a fun idea - here are some of the bird cards I’ve sent:

and here are some bird cards I have received:

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A beautiful card I received from India!

These birds are lovely, received a while back.

I do love this owl I received; by artist Albrecht Dürer.

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Lovely topic, thank you @Florallle!!

Here are a couple of my recently sent bird postcards:

• Purple-crowned Fairy-wren

• Red-backed Fairy-wren

• Zebra finch

• Eastern curlew

• and an illustrated Rainbow lorikeet

I have many more I think. We have some pretty amazing birds here. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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And a few more pretties, because I’m on a roll…

• Red-browed pardalote

• Sacred kingfisher

• Budgerigar

• Emu

• Adélie penguin

• Australian brush-turkey

• Tawny frogmouth

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There was a lady (I believe from Denmark) who belonged to one of those Yahoo groups years ago. She had a pretty impressive collection of Birds on postcards as I recall.

About a year ago, I ran a lottery offering the postcards featuring Birds:


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Thanks everyone for your amazing replies. So many wonderful birds already.

These are some of the first birds I received on postcards when I joined postcrossing:

And one that I sent, Great tit, Parus major

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I know Tawny Frogmouths are masters of disguise, but I really really had to look to spot this one!

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Haha @Florallle I know what you mean! Postcards of old branches are not my favourite type of postcard!! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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A few of mine:

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Some more. These are from my early days in postcrossing and I didn’t always find out the names :smirk:

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And I think this about wraps up all of my ‘sent’ birds:

  • Kookaburra (Illustrated - You Little Ripper)
  • Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Illustrated - You Little Beauty)
  • Superb fairy-wren (Illustrated - Have a Superb Day)
  • Superb fairy-wren (Illustrated)
  • More Budgerigars
  • Spotted pardalote (Watercolour painting by a family friend, of a bird in my garden)
  • Emperor penguin
  • Barn owl (Illustrated card from The Wild Cards boxset)
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A new one today!

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I am sad I can’t find this card in shops anymore :

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I’m not sure what these are. Top middle might be a linnet, and below that a goldcrest maybe. Does anyone know?

And some I sent, starting with a kingfisher:

And a barn owl:

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And here are a few of my favourite received ones :hatching_chick: :two_hearts:

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Some more I’ve received:

I’m guessing this is a fieldfare, though I’ve never seen the breast as red as this:

And a few more that I sent:

Yellow wagtails, Motacilla flava

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