Cocos (Keeling) Islands Shoreline Birds

Date of Issue : 17 Jun 2003

Postmark : Cocos (Keeling) Islands 6799

Denomination : 4 x 50c

Stamp Size : 37.5 mm x 26 mm

Paper : Tullis Russell

Printing Process : Lithography

The North Keeling Island, a single horseshoe-shaped atoll, supports a number of birds that feed on the small crustaceans that dominate the shoreline ecology. This stamp issue of four stamps depicts a single shoreline scene with four birds found on the shore of a North Keeling Island lagoon – the Eastern Reef Egret, Sooty Tern, Ruddy Turnstone and the Whimbrel.