Explore Vanuatu's wide and diverse range of bird wildlife with the 12 species featured in Vanuatu Post's latest stamp issue!
Issue information
Vanuatu Post's definitive Birds issue comprises 12 stamps. Vanuatu has a wide and diverse range of bird wildlife that varies from the elegant Mangrove Heron to the tiny, flittery, Streaked Fantail.
The low values of the new definitive issue focus on the bush birds - the Southern Shrikebill; Silvereye; Pacific Imperial Pigeon; Red-bellied Fruit Dove; Scrubfowl and the Long-tailed Triller.
The higher values focus on the costal areas of the Republic. The Streaked Fantail and the Dark-brown Honeyeater provide the transition between bush and coast, and the series is completed via the Vanuatu Petrel; Ruddy Turnstone; Purple Swamphen and the Striated Mangrove Heron.
Technical information
| Date of issue: | 2 May 2012 |
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| Designer: | Donna McKenna, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Printer: | Southern Colour Print, Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Denominations: | 10, 20, 40, 50, 70, 90, 100, 140, 160, 400, 500 and 1,000 vatu |
| Stamp size and format: | 35mm x 30.8mm |
| Perforation gauge: | 14.28 x 14.28 |
| Paper type: | 104 gsm Tullis Russell non-phosphor coated gummed stamp paper |
| Process: | Offset lithography |
