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15p: this shorebirds issue shows a small flock of Ruddy Turnstones on an island beach

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26p, 21p: the Garganey and Eurasian Kingfisher feature on two values from this lovely waterbirds set.

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36p: this celebrates Charles Darwin and features the land iguana, an endemic species studied during his expedition to the Galapagos. In his writing, Darwin described it as "an ugly species" due to its strange yellow-green coloring.

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34p Anson's Circumnavigation: this stunning stamp depicts the Tryal, one of 8 ships led by Commodore George Anson in a campaign to disrupt Spanish colonial trade from 1740-44 while Britian was at war with Spain