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  • 5 December 2016

Exotic Birds: Miniature Sheet 2

The Cape parrot, the hyacinth macaw and the lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo, in the second Exotic Birds miniature sheet.

Date of issue December 5, 2016
Denomination Rs. 30
Quantity printed 100000
Printer Security Printing Press, Hyderabad
Perforation 13¼ x 13¾
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Wet Offset
Credit Smt. Alka Sharma
Catalogue codes Michel IN BL150 Yvert et Tellier IN BF136 Stanley Gibbons IN MS3202

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A ₹30 miniature sheet holding three of the six exotic parrots: the Cape parrot (₹5), the hyacinth macaw (₹10) and the lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo (₹15). The other three are in the first miniature sheet.

Exotic Birds

India Post issued six stamps on exotic parrots on 5 December 2016: the blue-throated macaw and the Cape parrot (₹5), the sun conure and the hyacinth macaw (₹10), and the Magnum Amazon and the lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo (₹15). They came in two ₹30 miniature sheets of three stamps each and two ₹150 sheetlets. Parrots, an order of more than 350 species, are loved for their intelligence, colour and ability to mimic sounds, including human speech. The stamps were designed by Alka Sharma; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 0.2 million of each stamp, 0.1 million of each miniature sheet and 30,000 of each sheetlet.

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