Booklet: Resident Birds (Alderney 2006)
Resident Birds (Alderney 2006)
27 July (Alderney ) within release Birds 2006 goes into circulation Booklet Resident Birds face value 10.60 Guernsey pound
| Booklet Resident Birds in catalogues | |
|---|---|
| Stanley Gibbons: | Sg: GG-AL SB16 |
Booklet is square format.
Contains booklet panes SG nrs 282a to 287aAlso in the issue Birds 2006:
- Booklet Pane - Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) face value 4*68;
- Booklet Pane - European Storm Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) face value 4*45;
- Booklet Pane - Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) face value 4*47;
- Booklet Pane - Lesser Black-Backed Gull (Larus fuscus) face value 4*42;
- Booklet Pane - Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) face value 4*29;
- Booklet Pane - Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) face value 4*34;
- Booklet - Resident Birds face value 10.60;
Booklet Resident Birds it reflects the thematic directions:
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia (also called Metazoa). All animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and independently, at some point in their lives. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their lives. All animals are heterotrophs: they must ingest other organisms or their products for sustenance.
Birds (Aves), a subgroup of Reptiles, are the last living examples of Dinosaurs. They are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) ostrich. They rank as the class of tetrapods with the most living species, at approximately ten thousand, with more than half of these being passerines, sometimes known as perching birds. Birds are the closest living relatives of crocodilians.
Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and skimmers and distantly related to auks, and even more distantly to waders. Until the 21st century, most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but that arrangement is now considered polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several genera.An older name for gulls is mews, which is cognate with German Möwe, Danish måge, Swedish mås, Dutch meeuw, Norwegian måke/måse, and French mouette, and can still be found in certain regional dialects
Puffins are any of three species of small alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula. These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water. They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil. Two species, the tufted puffin and horned puffin, are found in the North Pacific Ocean, while the Atlantic puffin is found in the North Atlantic Ocean.
