Romfilatelia offers collectors and the public, a new postage stamps issue with the Fauna theme under the general title „Winter Waterfowl”, composed of four stamps, a First Day Cover and a philatelic folder in a limited edition. The issue will be introduced into circulation on Friday, January 5, 2024.
The winter birds, whose images are reproduced on the stamps of the issue, belong, according to the classification of biologists, to the family of homeotherms, whose species have the ability to maintain a constant body temperature, regardless of the season.
The smew (Mergellus albellus), illustrated on the stamp with the face value of Lei 2, is a species of waterfowl related to ducks, geese and swans. In Romania, during the passage and wintering period, the species can be noticed on most lakes and large rivers, from the plain to the low mountain area.
The red-throated loon (Gavia stellata), depicted on the stamp with the face value of Lei 4, it is a species of waterfowl that lives and nests in tundra, coastal and lake areas, around the northern regions of Europe. Some specimens also reach Romania during this migration.
The Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope), illustrated on the stamp with the face value of Lei 12, is a species that breeds in Northern Europe and Asia and migrates for winter over very long distances. The species can appear in Romania during migration, both in autumn and spring.
The bean goose (Anser fabalis), represented on the stamp with the face value of Lei 13, it is a species with a widespread in Eurasia, breeding in northern Europe as well as in Siberia. In Romania, it is a rare species.
The whistling swan or tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus) is illustrated on the First Day Cover.
Romfilatelia thanks Senior Researcher Luis Ovidiu Popa, General Manager of the “Grigore Antipa” National Museum of Natural History, for the documentary consultancy granted to the development of this issue of postage stamps.
The philatelic issue will be available starting with Friday, January 5th, this year, in Romfilatelia’s shops network in Bucharest, Bacău, Brașov, Cluj-Napoca, Iași and Timișoara and online on https://romfilatelia.ro/store/.
For further information, please contact the Public Relations Office:
Tel: 021 / 336 93 92
