Taiwan Blue Magpie (Urocissa caerulea)

                 Endemic to the country is the beautiful  Taiwan Blue Magpie  also known as the "long tailed mountain lady". The bird has been featured on several Taiwanese stamps and this time was chosen for an ATM label and the commemorative pictorial cancel for the recent "Philataipei 2016" World Stamp Expo
                                            

Taiwan- Swinhoe's Pheasant

I was lucky enough to receive another set of the new birds from Taiwan, and here you see the se-tenant block of four with their own family pictorial postmark.

Taiwan-Swinhoe's Pheasant

Taiwan started the  Conservation of Birds  series in 2008 with the Blue Magpie.  The next  addition to the series is the endemic Swinhoe's Pheasant (Lophura swinhoii) issued on February 20, 2014.
British ornithologist and naturalist, Robert Swinhoe (1836-77) first described the species on 1862. He is also known for describing 16 other species from Formosa.
This delightful real posted FDC with the first day postmark and ordinary CDS,has the courting couple on the souvenir sheet and  the se-tenant block of four shows the family with chicks.

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Indonesia- Bird Life International 2012

An attractive block of four endemic species from Indonesia promoted by Bird Life International 2012
 Siau Scops Owl (Otus siaoensis) Flores Hawk-Eagle (Nisaetus floris)

Elegant Sunbird   (Aethopyga duyvenbodei

) Invisible Rail  (Habroptila wallacii)

Pakistan- Red-vented Bulbul ( Pycnonotus cafer)

Here is my first ever bird cover from Pakistan, and what a beauty with the attractive positioning of the stamps and nice clear cancels. The front of the cover has a block of 8 stamps, and the back a strip of four plus older definitive stamps to make the correct postage. Issued as a definitive stamp, the bird is a Red-vented bulbul, endemic to Pakistan and also introduced to other countries such as Hawaii, Fiji, new Zealand and Samoa,  where the birds have become pests from damaging orchard fruits.

Australia- Forty-spotted Pardalote

Pardalotes are small compact little birds which eat  mostly insects . Of the four species found in Australia, this Forty-spotted Pardalote is endemic to the Island of Tasmania. This stamps was cancelled on the first day of issue in Melbourne during the recent World Stamp Exhibition held at the historic Exhibition Building .

Cuba- Partridge Pigeon & Antillean Hummingbird

To commemorate the World Festival of Endemic Birds in Cuba 2012,a pictorial postmark of a Partridge pigeon ( Starnoenas cyanocephala ) was used to cancel an 2011 Antillean crested hummingbird 

(Orthorhyncus cristatus)