AITUTAKI (Cook Is.)

48c: this 1983 Commonwealth issue shows two children in a traditional canoe

AITUTAKI (Cook Is.)

75c: this 1983 issue features traditional arts in celebration of Commonwealth Day

AITUTAKI (Cook Is.)

12c: this issue features the Sacred Heron, a widespread wading bird of reefs and coastal areas across the Pacific

AITUTAKI (Cook Is)

55c: this 1985 Audubon issue shows a painting of the Grey Kingbird among showy flowers

AITUTAKI (Cook Is.)

18c overprint: this is a stamp from a definitive birds series and shows the Fairy Tern, a common seabird of oceania

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5c: the Blue lorikeet, a local endemic species, is shown on this lower value definitive stamp. This species, also called the Nunbird, is native to just a few tiny islands of Fr. Polynesia and the Cook Is., including: Motu, Manuae, Tikehau, Rangiroa, Aratua, Kaukura, Apataki, Aitutaki

AITUTAKI (Cook Is.)

50c: This colorful 1992 issue commemorates the Sixth Festival of Pacific Arts, which took place in Rarotonga in the Cook Is.

AITUTAKI (Cook Is.)

50c: Henderson or Stephen's Lorikeet (Vini stepheni) is a highly endangered parrot known only from a very few islands in the Pitcairn chain

AITUTAKI (Cook Isl.)

40c The Banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis) is a widespread species in the Pacific region, with many subspecies specific to certain islands

AITUTAKI (Cook Is.)

95c this lovely issue commemorates the 200th anniv. of the discovery of Aitutaki by William Bligh in 1789; on the stamp a local outrigger is being rowed toward the Bounty, anchored offshore

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90c Blue Lorikeet (endemic species)

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