The Comoro Olive Pigeon

This vertical regular issue shifts focus to the volcanic interior highlands, providing an ornithological study of the vulnerable Comoro Olive Pigeon (Columba pollenii). The artwork captures the thick-billed frugivore perched alertly on a woody forest branch surrounded by broad canopy leaves. Historically, this stamp highlights a highly prized evolutionary jewel of the archipelago: a species entirely endemic to the primary evergreen forests and mist-shrouded montane ridges of Grande Comore, Mohéli, Anjouan, and Mayotte. The issue documents the unique island-driven speciation of the region, emphasizing the crucial need to preserve the old-growth canopy habitats that have sustained these deep-forest frugivores for millennia.