Sunday Stamps: Mammals of the Sea

Today Sunday Stamps' theme is 'Mammals of the Sea'.

Of course it is a delight for me, as I love both animals and the colour turquoise, a colour which appears on many sea animals stamps.

Eva was so kind to send me four sea animals stamps, on three very beautifully decorated envelopes. The complete envelope and stamps you can see on Eva's post of August 2015. Of the four stamps two show sea mammals, of which I like to share this closer look.

The whale (or North Atlantic right whale to be more precise):



The seal:



Also the Dutch PostNL has issued a stamp showing a seal. The seal shown above on the Spanish stamp thrives in warmer seas, and is named the Mediterranean Monk seal, whereas the seal on the Dutch stamp is used to colder waters, and is named the common seal or harbour seal:



By the way, no turquoise in this stamp, but that matches with the usual colour of our sea, the North Sea: grey...

Years ago Dutch Post issued a stamp in honour of the 'Bruinvis' (literally 'brownfish') who in English is named the harbour porpoise.
On this stamp you can see how the number of these marine mammals has been changing since the years. After a bad period fortunately the number seems to have been increased after this stamp was issued.



Two large countries with a lot of sea are the USA and Russia.
From Russia I received this stamp of an orca:



And from the USA these two arrived on one envelope: the manatee:



And the delphin:



See more marine mammals on today's blog post on Sunday Stamps and the links mentioned there.

In: from Portugal

Na de ansichtkaart van het vliegveld was ik de blije ontvanger van nog eens vier kaarten van de Azoren! Met mooie natuur. Boven zie je de Priôlo (Pyrrhula murina), eronder Scopoli's pijlstormvogel en nog nèt een staartje walvis.

After the Airport postcard I was happy to receive four more postcards from the Azores! With beautiful nature. Above you see the 'Priôlo' (Pyrrhula murina, also known as Azores Bullfinch), and below a Shearwater bird (Calonectris diomedea borealis), and the tail of a whale.



Hierboven het bijzondere 'maanlandschap' van Capelinhos. Die ene berg is best nieuw voor een berg! In 1957-1958 ontstaan dankzij een langdurige vulkaanuitbarsting. Hierdoor kreeg de vuurtoren, die eerst aan zee stond, ineens uitzicht op een berg...

Hieronder mooie postzegels, onder andere van de componist Verdi en... Een postauto!

Ontzettend bedankt, Eva!

Above the amazing 'moon landscape' of Capelinhos. The mountain is rather new, it's a volcano, which was 'born' in 1957-1958 by a long lasting volcano eruption.
Poor lighthouse: first it was close to sea (as usual), and since 1958 the lighthouse has no sea view anymore but a mountain view!...
(Eva: I saw some more volcano pictures here!)

Below you see beautiful stamps, among them one of the composer Verdi, and one of a... post car!

Thank you very, very, very much, Eva!

In: from Spain

Uit Spanje ontvangen, deze 'Red de walvis' kaart en (scheer het schaap?) Maleis notitieblaadje. Dankjewel, Eva!

Received from Spain, this Save the Whales card and (shave the sheep?) stationery (from Malaysia). Thank you very much, Eva!