Stamp SN | D296 |
Stamp Name | Special 296 Taiwan Stream Birds Postage Stamps |
Stamp Cat Standard | Special Stamps |
Stamp Cat | Birds |
Issue date | 1991-08-24 |
Suspersion date | |
Dimension of stamps(mm.) | |
Size of souvenir Sheet (mm.) | |
Printer | China Color Printing Co. Inc., R.O.C. |
Drawer | |
Designer | Lin Pan-sung |
Photographer | |
Engraver | |
Creative Director | |
Sheet composition | S296.1-296.10 10×4 |
Print color | |
Process | Deep etch offset |
Paper | Locally-made mat finished, watermarked stamp paper with gum |
Back | |
Perforation | 13 1/2 |
To help our citizens to know and to love our indigenous wild birds, so as to protect their habitat, this Directorate released a set of postage stamps featuring these birds in the streams. The set consists of ten 5.00 stamps. The ten species of birds taken as the motifs are: Formosan Whistling Thrush Myiophoneus insularis, Brown Dipper Cinclus pallasii, Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata, Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax, Little Egret Egretta garzetta, Plumbeous Water Redstart Rhyacornis fuligiosus, Little Forktail Enicurus scouleri, Gray Wagtail Motacilla cinerea, Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis and Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba.