Sunday Stamps: D is for Darwin and Dragon

This time the Sunday Stamps' theme is the letter 'D'.
Yesterday I happened to have received a postcrossing postcard from Czech Republic, showing a stamp which matches to the theme:



Charles Darwin, I think he doesn't need any introduction, pictured on a stamp designed by graphic designer Pavel Dvorský.

Darwin was famous by his book 'On the origin of species'. However, despite of the resemblance with the little animal on the Czech stamp, I think no one exactly does know the origin of the following animals:



These stamps were issued in honour of the Year of the Dragon. To two of them some relief has been added, or, as we also say in Dutch, some diepte (depth):



See more stamps showing the letter 'D' on Sunday Stamps!

In: from Iceland

Een van mijn (vele) lievelingsdieren, deze papegaaiduiker (wel zielig voor de visjes) uit IJsland. Eigenlijk is 't een vakantiekaart, van een Nederlandse vriendin. Aan de poststempel kun je zien dat deze kaart uit het pre-postcrossing-tijdperk stamt.

One of my (many) favourite animals, this puffin (though a pity for these little fish), sent from Iceland. In fact it's a holiday-postcard, which I received from a Dutch friend. The cancelling stamp reveals the fact that this was in the pre-Postcrossing era.