Set of postage stamps "Sport Fishing" Part.2

  Coryphaena hippurus Linneo, original name in Spanish: Dorado. Coryphaena is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes known as the dolphinfishes. This genus is currently the only known genus in its family. The species in this genus have compressed heads and single dorsal fins that run the entire length of the fishes' bodies.

  Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes, original name in Spanish: Sabalo. The Atlantic tarpon inhabits coastal waters, estuaries, lagoons, and rivers. Tarpons feed almost exclusively on schooling fish and occasionally crabs.

  Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier), original name in Spanish: Peto. Wahoo is a scombrid fish found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. It is best known to sports fishermen, as its speed and high-quality flesh make it a prize game fish. In Hawaii, the wahoo is known as ono. Many Hispanic areas of the Caribbean and Central America refer to this fish as peto.

  Makaira ampla (Poey), original name in Spanish: Castero. The Atlantic blue marlin is a species of marlin endemic to the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic blue marlin feeds on a wide variety of organisms near the surface. It uses its bill to stun, injure, or kill while knifing through a school of fish or other prey, then returns to eat the injured or stunned fish.

• Series: Sport Fishing
• Country: Republic of Cuba
• Year: 1971-10-30
• Perforation: line 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 50 x 30 mm
• Face value: 4, 5, 13, 30 ¢
• Number of catalogue Michel: CU 1724-1727

Set of postage stamps "Sport Fishing" Part.1

  Albula vulpes (Linneo), original name in Spanish: Macabi. The bonefish is the type species of the bonefish family (Albulidae), the only family in order Albuliformes.

  Seriola species, original name in Spanish: Coronado. Seriola is a genus of bony fish, commonly known as amberjacks. They are a large, carnivorous finfish popularly known for the firm texture and rich flavour of their flesh, which make them an ideal fish for aquaculture.

  Micropterus salmoides, original name in Spanish: Lobina. The largemouth bass is a freshwater gamefish in the sunfish family, a species of black bass native to North America.

• Series: Sport Fishing
• Country: Republic of Cuba
• Year: 1971-10-30
• Perforation: line 12½
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 50 x 30 mm
• Face value: 1, 2, 3 ¢
• Number of catalogue Michel: CU 1721-1723

Macaw (Fujairah postage stamp)

  Macaws are long-tailed, often colourful New World parrots. Postage stamp was printed in Fujairah in 1971.

• Original name "Macaw"
• Series: Animals by airtransport
• Country: Emirate of Fujairah
• Year: 1971-04-25
• Emission: Air Mail
• Perforation: comb 14 
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Colors: Multicolor
• Face value: 3 United Arab Emirates riyals
• Number of catalogue Michel: FU 718A

Zebra (Fujairah postage stamp)

  Zebras are several species of African equids (horse family) united by their distinctive black and white striped coats. The mountain zebra (Equus zebra) is a threatened species in the family Equidae. It is native to south-western Angola, Namibia and South Africa.

• Original name "Mountain zebra"
• Series: Animals by airtransport
• Country: Emirate of Fujairah
• Year: 1971-04-25
• Emission: Air Mail
• Perforation: comb 14
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Colors: Multicolor
• Face value: 2 United Arab Emirates riyals
• Number of catalogue Michel: FU 717A

Cheetah (Fujairah postage stamp)

  The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a big cat in the subfamily Felinae that inhabits most of Africa and parts of Iran. It is the only extant member of the genus Acinonyx.

• Original name "Cheetah"
• Series: Animals by airtransport
• Country: Emirate of Fujairah
• Year: 1971-04-25
• Emission: Air Mail
• Perforation: comb 14
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Colors: Multicolor
• Face value: 1 United Arab Emirates riyal
• Number of catalogue Michel: FU 716A

Rhinoceros (Fujairah postage stamp)

  Rhinoceros, often abbreviated to rhino, is a group of five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to Southern Asia.

• Original name "Rhinoceros"
• Series: Animals by airtransport
• Country: Emirate of Fujairah
• Year: 1971-04-25
• Emission: Air Mail
• Perforation: comb 14
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Colors: Multicolor
• Face value: 60 د.إ.
• Number of catalogue Michel: FU 715A

Lesser Kudu (Fujairah postage stamp)

  The lesser kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis) is a forest antelope found in East Africa. It is placed in the genus Tragelaphus and family Bovidae. It was first described by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1869.

• Original name "Lesser kudu"
• Series: Animals by airtransport
• Country: Emirate of Fujairah
• Year: 1971-04-25
• Emission: Air Mail
• Perforation: comb 14
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Colors: Multicolor
• Face value: 40 د.إ.
• Number of catalogue Michel: FU 714A

Orangutan (Fujairah postage stamp)

  The orangutans (also spelled orang-utan, orangutang, or orang-utang) are the two exclusively Asian species of extant great apes. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are currently found in only the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Classified in the genus Pongo, orangutans were considered to be one species.

• Original name "Orang-outang"
• Series: Animals by airtransport
• Country: Emirate of Fujairah
• Year: 1971-04-25
• Emission: Air Mail
• Perforation: comb 14
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Colors: Multicolor
• Face value: 20 د.إ.
• Number of catalogue Michel: FU 713A

Set in block "Birds" (Republic of Burundi) Part.4

1. The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus.
2. The dunnock (Prunella modularis) is a small passerine, or perching bird, found throughout temperate Europe and into Asia.
3. The grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) is a small member of the wagtail family, Motacillidae.
4. The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis) is a small passerine bird which breeds in much of the northern half of Europe and also northwestern Asia, from southeastern Greenland and Iceland east to just east of the Ural Mountains in Russia, and south to central France and Romania.
5. The Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) is a very small bird, and the only member of the wren family Troglodytidae found in Eurasia and Africa (Maghreb). In Anglophone Europe, it is commonly known simply as the wren.
6. The common firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla) also known as the firecrest, is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family.
7. The Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis) is a small passerine bird species. This lark breeds across most of Europe and Asia and in the mountains of north Africa.
8. The crested lark (Galerida cristata) is a species of lark distinguished from the other 81 species of lark by the crest of feathers that rise up in territorial or courtship displays and when singing. Common to mainland Europe, the birds can also be found in northern Africa and in parts of western Asia and China. It is a non-migratory bird, but can occasionally be found as a vagrant in Great Britain.

Postage stamps were printed in Republic of Burundi in 1971.

• Country: Republic of Burundi
• Year: 1971
• Subject: Animals
• Estimated cost: 20, 10F (at the rate of exchange 1971)
• Number of catalogue Michel: BI 690-701

Set in block "Birds" (Republic of Burundi) Part.3

1. The great grey shrike, northern grey shrike, or northern shrike (Lanius excubitor) is a large songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae).
2. The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European starling, or in the British Isles just the starling, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae.
3. The western yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava) is a small passerine in the wagtail family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and longclaws.
4. The sand martin (Riparia riparia) or European sand martin, bank swallow in the Americas, and collared sand martin in South Asia, is a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family.

• Country: Republic of Burundi
• Year: 1971
• Subject: Animals
• Estimated cost: 8 F (at the rate of exchange 1971)
• Number of catalogue Michel: BI 690-701

Set in block "Birds" (Republic of Burundi) Part.2

1. The woodchat shrike (Lanius senator) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. The woodchat breeds in southern Europe, the Middle East and northwest Africa, and winters in tropical Africa.
2. The common rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis), formerly rufous-tailed rock thrush or rock thrush, is a chat belonging to the family Muscicapidae.
3. The black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus. 
4. The ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) is a European member of the thrush family, Turdidae. It is the mountain equivalent of the closely related common blackbird, and breeds in gullies, rocky areas or scree slopes.

• Country: Republic of Burundi
• Year: 1971
• Subject: Animals
• Estimated cost: 30 F (at the rate of exchange 1971)
• Number of catalogue Michel: BI 690-701

Set in block "Birds" (Republic of Burundi) Part.1

1. The hoopoe (Upupa epops, "hudhud") is a colourful bird found across Afro-Eurasia, notable for its distinctive "crown" of feathers.
2. The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family.
3. The great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) is a Eurasian passerine in the genus Acrocephalus.
4. The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) also known as the Eurasian kingfisher, and river kingfisher, is a small kingfisher with seven subspecies recognized within its wide distribution across Eurasia and North Africa.

• Country: Republic of Burundi
• Year: 1971
• Subject: Animals
• Estimated cost: 30 F (at the rate of exchange 1971)
• Number of catalogue Michel: BI 690-701

Set of postage stamps "Fishes" (Republic of Guinea) Part.4

1. Aphyosemion bivittatum (twostripe lyretail, two-banded killi, red lyretail) is a species of freshwater fish belonging to the Nothobranchiidae family. It is found in rivers in southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon.
2. The golden trevally, Gnathanodon speciosus (also known as the golden kingfish, banded trevally and king trevally), is a species of large marine fish classified in the jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae, and the only member of the genus Gnathanodon. The golden trevally is widely distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, ranging from South Africa in the west to Central America in the east, extending to Japan in the north and Australia in the south.

• Country: Republic of Guinea
• Year: 1971.04.01
• Subject: Fishes, Aquatic Animals
• Estimated cost: 40, 100 GNF (at the rate of exchange 1971)
• Number of catalogue Michel: GN 577A, 581A
• Perf: comb 13 1/4

Set of postage stamps "Fishes" (Republic of Guinea) Part.3

1. The African jewelfish (Hemichromis bimaculatus), also known as jewel cichlid or jewelfish, is from the family cichlidae.
2. The Redbelly tilapia, Tilapia zillii, Tilapia melanopleura is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family. It is found widely in numerous African and Eurasian countries, both as aquarium fish and food fish.
3. Hemichromis fasciatus, also called the banded jewelfish and five-spot cichlid, is a species of fish in the cichlid family. It is distributed throughout West Africa. It can also be found in the Nile Basin, Lake Chad, and the upper Zambezi.

• Country: Republic of Guinea
• Year: 1971.04.01
• Subject: Fishes, Aquatic Animals
• Estimated cost: 25, 200, 45 GNF (at the rate of exchange 1971)
• Number of catalogue Michel: GN 575A, 582A, 578A
• Perf: comb 13 1/4

Set of postage stamps "Fishes" (Republic of Guinea) Part.2

1. The Congo tetra (Phenacogrammus interruptus) is a species of fish in the African tetra family. It is found in the central Congo River Basin in Africa.
2. The redtail notho (Nothobranchius guentheri) is a species of fish in the Aplocheilidae family. It is endemic to Tanzania. Its natural habitats are intermittent rivers and intermittent freshwater marshes.
3. Kribensis refers to a number of West African fish of the genus Pelvicachromis, most commonly Pelvicachromis pulcher, Pelvicachromis subocellatus and Pelvicachromis taeniatus.

• Country: Republic of Guinea
• Year: 1971.04.01
• Subject: Fishes, Aquatic Animals
• Estimated cost: 5, 50, 30 GNF (at the rate of exchange 1971)
• Number of catalogue Michel: GN 571A, 579A, 576A
• Perf: comb 13 1/4

Set of postage stamps "Fishes" (Republic of Guinea) Part.1

1. The freshwater butterflyfish or African butterflyfish, Pantodon buchholzi, is the only species in the family Pantodontidae within the order Osteoglossiformes.
2. The six-banded distichodus or sixbar distichodus (Distichodus sexfasciatus) is a species of fish in the Distichodontidae family.
3. Golden Pheasant, Blue Gularis or Aphyosemion sjoestedti.

Postage stamps were printed in Republic of Guinea in 1971.

• Country: Republic of Guinea
• Year: 1971.04.01
• Subject: Fishes, Aquatic Animals
• Estimated cost: 10, 20, 75 GNF (at the rate of exchange 1971)
• Number of catalogue Michel: GN 572A, 574A, 580A
• Perf: comb 13 1/4