About this stamp
On the Sheetlet
A ₹80 sheetlet of sixteen ₹5 stamps of the Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica). The Nicobar pigeon of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the only living member of its genus, breeds in colonies on small wooded islets and is threatened by trapping and by rats and cats.
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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