07 March (New Zealand ) within release Native Wildlife goes into circulation Stamp Yellow Eyed Penguin face value 1.50 New Zealand dollar
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Stanley Gibbons: | Sg:NZ 2939 |
Stamp is square format.
CIRCULAR SELF-ADHESIVEAlso in the issue Native Wildlife:
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Stamp Yellow Eyed Penguin in digits | |
Country: | New Zealand |
Date: | 2007-03-07 |
Perforation: | comb 11½ |
Format: | Stamp |
Face Value: | 1.50 New Zealand dollar |
Stamp Yellow Eyed Penguin it reflects the thematic directions:
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.
Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae (/sfɪˈnɪsɪdiː, -daɪ/) of the order Sphenisciformes (/sfɪˈnɪsəfɔːrmiːz/). They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is found north of the Equator. Highly adapted for life in the ocean water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage and flippers for swimming. Most penguins feed on krill, fish, squid and other forms of sea life which they catch with their bills and swallow whole while swimming. A penguin has a spiny tongue and powerful jaws to grip slippery prey