This time around I would like to showcase a beautiful registered postal cover from Indonesia. Simply lovely with 2 bird stamps; Hornbill and Rock Pigeon. Again, I would like to highlight the importance of using the right sized cover. This is a C6 size cover and it is perfect for cover exchange. Bigger covers tend to get damaged much easier especially on the edges. Also please remember to include a cardboard inside.
The Golden-fronted Bowerbird, Amblyornis flavifrons is a medium-sized, approximately 24cm long, brown bowebird. The male is rufous brown with an elongated golden crest extending from its golden forehead, dark grey feet and buffish yellow underparts. The female is an unadorned olive brown bird.
An Indonesian endemic, the male builds a tower-like "maypole-type" bower decorated with colored fruit.
Originally described in 1895 based on trade skins, this elusive bird remained a mystery for nearly a hundred years, until 1981 when the American scientist Jared Diamond discovered the home ground of the Golden-fronted Bowerbird at Foja Mountains in Papua.
In December 2005, led by Bruce Beehler, an international team of eleven scientists from the US, Australia and Indonesia traveled to the unexplored areas of Foja Mountains and took the first photographs of the bird.
A very beautiful ms that features Casuarius Casuari.
