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A historic collection of 261 Comoros postage stamps
✨ Discovery of the day
Year: 1971
The Great Egret
This regular postage issue showcases a detailed biological profile of the Great Egret subspecies (Egretta alba melanorhynchos, taxonomically recognized as Ardea alba), capturing the elegant bird wading through a shallow, rippling coastal wetland ecosystem. Historically, this release forms the vanguard of a specialized 1971 definitive avifauna collection produced while the Comoro Islands were an overseas territory of the French Republic. By cataloging this statuesque, black-billed wetland hunter, the territorial postal administration documented the vital ecological importance of the archipelago's pristine tidal flats, inland estuaries, and sheltered reef shallows, serving as a permanent archival record of the rich aquatic birdlife populated across the Western Indian Ocean.
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Indri (Indri indri) - Madagascar
Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
Mountain Nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni)
White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)
African Leopard (Panthera pardus)
Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - Australia
Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)
The Lined Sweetlips
Allen s Gallinule
The Grand Comoro Flycatcher
The Comoro Blue Pigeon
The Striated Heron
The Comoro Olive Pigeon