Just a decade back, many of us woke up to the handicapped squeaks of sparrows and mynahs. You might still vividly recollect how those lovable creatures frequently visited your window sill. Today you are only left with crows and our mornings reduction that honeyed music.
Word similar to ‘Mauritius Parakeet' and ‘Eurasian Hoopoe' do sound foreign to many of us, not since they are something to do with Mauritius and Eurasia but only since they are small well known small birds. Belittled though, birds form a poignant segment of our ecosystem.
You will be sufficient astounded to know the ‘Blue swift Indian Pitta' is a Desi localite that might really well be indolence in your backyard. But held in the scurry, frequency do you end to see them or attend to their lores.
Here is an chance to complement your expertise of these singular birds. Around 40 stamps of singing and perching birds are on manifestation at the Philately Bureau in Madurai Head Post Office on North Veli Street. Put together by Philatelist A. Ramaraj, the expo bonds collections of a few singular bird stamps from all over the world. "I have been pciking up stamps is to past 10 years. I have interested fascination in pciking up bird stamps. The displayed varieties are only a trailer" shares Ramaraj, Secretary, Madurai Philatelists Club, comprising 20 members.
Ramaraj has taken the bid to moreover notify the life cycle, behaviour, natural environment and other distinct features of any bird underneath the stamps. "Most of these are small singing birds from Australia, Europe, Middle East and England. Indian varieties are obtuse in the manifestation even though I have many in the collection. It is great chance for students and interested people to know about such singular birds" he adds. The stamps on manifestation enclose Bulbuls, Green bee-eater, Brn swallow, Blue tits, Yellow warbler, Golden oriole, Bay corroborated shrike, White eye, European bee-eater, Black billed magpie, Salty headed Simitar babbler, Green barbet, Red billed blue magpie, Skylark, Tanager, Laughing Thrush, Toucans, European cuckoo, Laughing kookaburra, Purple object bird, Bee-humming bird, Black billed Amazon, Rose singed parakeet, Paradise Flycatcher, Australian parrots, St. Vincent parrot and Black Drongo (King Crow).
The expo is on compartment September 5. Such topic-specific or theme-based displays are conducted every month at the Head Post Office. Stamps of singular accumulation are put on manifestation by stamp enthusiasts from assorted city-based Philately clubs and fascination groups.