About this stamp
On the Sheetlet
A ₹220 sheetlet of sixteen stamps, four of each of the near-threatened birds: Nicobar pigeon, Nilgiri flycatcher, Andaman woodpecker and black-and-orange flycatcher.
Near Threatened Birds
India Post issued four stamps on near-threatened birds on 17 October 2016, the first in a series on birds of the IUCN Red List: the Nicobar pigeon (₹5), the Nilgiri flycatcher (₹10), the Andaman woodpecker (₹15) and the black-and-orange flycatcher (₹25). Besides the ₹55 miniature sheet, the stamps were printed in sheetlets: one of each species and one of all four. They were designed by Nenu Gupta; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 0.3 million of each stamp, “in the form of sheetlets”, and 0.1 million miniature sheets.
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