Bird stamps of Malawi
Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis  1968 Birds Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster  1968 Birds White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini  1968 Birds Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala  1968 Birds Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae  1968 Birds Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis  1968 Birds
Southern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicoides  1968 Birds Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti  1968 Birds Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea  1968 Birds African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis  1968 Birds
Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus  1968 Birds Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis  1968 Birds Purple Heron Ardea purpurea  1968 Birds Livingstone's Turaco Tauraco livingstonii  1968 Birds
Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti  1970 Overprint Rand Easter Show 1970 on 1968.01 Southern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicoides  1970 Surcharge on 1968.01 Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea  1970 Surcharge on 1968.01 African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis  1971 Overprint Special United... on 1968.01
Grey Heron Ardea cinerea  1971 Currency Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa  1971 Currency Grey Heron Ardea cinerea  1971 Currency
Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa  1971 Currency Grey Heron Ardea cinerea  1971 Currency Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa  1971 Currency
Grey Heron Ardea cinerea  1971 Currency Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa  1971 Currency African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis  1975 Birds With wmk Double-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles bicinctus  1975 Birds With wmk Blue Quail Synoicus adansonii  1975 Birds With wmk
Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer  1975 Birds With wmk Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei  1975 Birds With wmk Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis  1975 Birds With wmk Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami  1975 Birds With wmk Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos  1975 Birds With wmk Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris  1975 Birds With wmk
African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus  1975 Birds With wmk Garganey Spatula querquedula  1975 Birds With wmk White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata  1975 Birds With wmk African Green Pigeon Treron calvus  1975 Birds With wmk
African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus  1975 Overprint 10th ACP... on 1975.01 Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami  1976 Overprint Blantyre... on 1975.01 Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris  1976 Overprint Blantyre... on 1975.01 African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  1980 Rotary 4v set African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  1980 Rotary 4v sheet
Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus  1980 Christmas 4v set Western Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis  1981 Wildlife 4v set Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus  1982 National parks 4v set Common Crane Grus grus  1983 Raphael 3v set
African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  1983 African Fish Eagle Strip African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  1983 African Fish Eagle Strip African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  1983 African Fish Eagle Strip African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  1983 African Fish Eagle Strip African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  1983 African Fish Eagle Strip Stierling's Woodpecker Dendropicos stierlingi  1985 Audubon Upright wmk
Lesser Seedcracker Pyrenestes minor  1985 Audubon Upright wmk East Coast Akalat Sheppardia gunningi  1985 Audubon Upright wmk Böhm's Bee-eater Merops boehmi  1985 Audubon Upright wmk Stierling's Woodpecker Dendropicos stierlingi  1985 Audubon Sheet, sideways wmk Lesser Seedcracker Pyrenestes minor  1985 Audubon Sheet, sideways wmk
East Coast Akalat Sheppardia gunningi  1985 Audubon Sheet, sideways wmk Böhm's Bee-eater Merops boehmi  1985 Audubon Sheet, sideways wmk Wattled Crane Grus carunculata  1987 WWF Cock wmk Wattled Crane Grus carunculata  1987 WWF Cock wmk Wattled Crane Grus carunculata  1987 WWF Cock wmk
Wattled Crane Grus carunculata  1987 WWF Cock wmk Western Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis  1987 Hippopotamus 4v set Western Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis  1987 Hippopotamus 4v sheet Evergreen Forest Warbler Bradypterus lopezi  1988 Birds Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus ruficapilla  1988 Birds Moustached Tinkerbird Pogoniulus leucomystax  1988 Birds
Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri  1988 Birds Oriole Finch Linurgus olivaceus  1988 Birds White-starred Robin Pogonocichla stellata  1988 Birds Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum  1988 Birds Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula  1988 Birds Grey Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris caesius  1988 Birds
Black-fronted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons  1988 Birds White-tailed Crested Flycatcher Elminia albonotata  1988 Birds Green Barbet Cryptolybia olivacea  1988 Birds Lemon Dove Columba larvata  1988 Birds Silvery-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes brevis  1988 Birds Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus  1988 Birds
Anchieta's Sunbird Anthreptes anchietae  1988 Birds Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix  1992 Birds Sheet Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica  1992 Birds Sheet Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis  1992 Birds Sheet
Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus  1992 Birds Sheet African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis  1992 Birds Sheet White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides  1992 Birds Sheet White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus  1992 Birds Sheet
African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata  1992 Birds Sheet White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini  1992 Birds Sheet African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  1992 Birds Sheet Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus  1992 Birds Sheet
Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius  1992 Birds Sheet Western Barn Owl Tyto alba  1992 Birds Sheet Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus  1992 Birds Sheet Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor  1992 Birds Sheet
Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum  1992 Birds Sheet African Pitta Pitta angolensis  1992 Birds Sheet African Darter Anhinga rufa  1992 Birds Sheet White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata  1992 Birds Sheet
African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp  1992 Birds Sheet White-starred Robin Pogonocichla stellata  1995 Birds African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  1997 Rotary 4v set Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops  2003 Birds of Africa Sheet Grey Parrot Psittacus erithacus  2003 Birds of Africa Sheet
Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus  2003 Birds of Africa Sheet Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus  2003 Birds of Africa Sheet Yellow-collared Lovebird Agapornis personatus  2003 Birds of Africa Sheet Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli  2003 Birds of Africa Sheet Grey Heron Ardea cinerea  2003 Birds of Africa  MS
African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  2004 SAPOA Sheet African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  2004 SAPOA Sheet Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus  2004 SAPOA Sheet Western Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis  2004 SAPOA Sheet
Purple-crested Turaco Gallirex porphyreolophus  2004 SAPOA Sheet Blue Crane Grus paradisea  2004 SAPOA Sheet Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum  2004 SAPOA Sheet African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  2004 SAPOA Sheet
Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus  2007 SAPOA 5v sheet Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae  2009 WWF Sheet with 2 sets Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae  2009 WWF Sheet with 2 sets Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae  2009 WWF Sheet with 2 sets
Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae  2009 WWF Sheet with 2 sets Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae  2009 WWF Sheet with 4 sets Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae  2009 WWF Sheet with 4 sets Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae  2009 WWF Sheet with 4 sets
Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae  2009 WWF Sheet with 4 sets African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  2014 Lake Malawi 10v set African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  2014 Lake Malawi 10v set House Sparrow Passer domesticus  2016 Birds of Malawi Sheet
African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus  2016 Birds of Malawi Sheet Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus  2016 Birds of Malawi Sheet Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas  2016 Birds of Malawi Sheet Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis  2016 Birds of Malawi Sheet
Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus  2016 Birds of Malawi Sheet House Sparrow Passer domesticus  2016 Birds of Malawi  MS Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus  2016 Birds of Malawi  MS MS Böhm's Bee-eater Merops boehmi  2016 Birds of Malawi  MS MS MS Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus  2016 Birds of Malawi  MS MS MS MS
Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris  2016 Birds of Malawi  MS MS MS MS MS Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas  2016 Birds of Malawi  MS MS MS MS MS MS Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis  2016 Birds of Malawi  MS MS MS MS MS MS MS Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri  2016 Overprint on 1988.01 Green Barbet Cryptolybia olivacea  2016 Overprint on 1988.01 Grey Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris caesius  2017 Overprint on 1988.01
Lemon Dove Columba larvata  2017 Overprint on 1988.01 Silvery-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes brevis  2017 Overprint on 1988.01 White-tailed Crested Flycatcher Elminia albonotata  2017 Overprint on 1988.01 Oriole Finch Linurgus olivaceus  2018 Overprint on 1988.01 Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula  2018 Overprint on 1988.01 Black-fronted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons  2018 Overprint on 1988.01
Pied Crow Corvus albus  2018 Malawi indigenous birds Sheet Mountain Wagtail Motacilla clara  2018 Malawi indigenous birds Sheet African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  2018 Malawi indigenous birds Sheet White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Melaenornis fischeri  2018 Malawi indigenous birds Sheet
Hamerkop Scopus umbretta  2018 Malawi indigenous birds Sheet Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis  2018 Malawi indigenous birds Sheet Western Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis  2018 Malawi indigenous birds  MS Hamerkop Scopus umbretta  2018 Malawi indigenous birds  MS MS
Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus  2018 Malawi indigenous birds  MS MS MS Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris  2018 Malawi indigenous birds  MS MS MS MS African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer  2018 Malawi indigenous birds  MS MS MS MS MS Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis  2018 Malawi indigenous birds  MS MS MS MS MS MS
Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos  2018 Vultures Sheet White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis  2018 Vultures Sheet Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus  2018 Vultures Sheet White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus  2018 Vultures Sheet
Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli  2018 Vultures Sheet Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus  2018 Vultures Sheet Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus  2018 Vultures  MS White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus  2018 Vultures  MS MS
White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis  2018 Vultures  MS MS MS Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos  2018 Vultures  MS MS MS MS Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus  2018 Vultures  MS MS MS MS MS Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus  2019 Wildlife 6v sheet
Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus  2019 Domesticated birds 6v sheet Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris  2019 Domesticated birds 6v sheet Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo  2019 Domesticated birds 6v sheet Rock Dove Columba livia  2019 Domesticated birds 6v sheet
Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus  2019 Domesticated birds  MS Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris  2019 Domesticated birds  MS MS Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo  2019 Domesticated birds  MS MS MS Rock Dove Columba livia  2019 Domesticated birds  MS MS MS MS
Malawi map

Location: Southern Africa
Population: 13.9 million
Climate: sub-tropical; rainy season; dry season
Terrain: narrow elongated plateau with rolling plains, rounded hills, some mountains

Birds: 694 species

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BIRD SPECIES SHOWN

Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae
Yellow Bishop Euplectes capensis
Southern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicoides
Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
Long-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua paradisaea
African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
Livingstone's Turaco Tauraco livingstonii
Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa
African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
Double-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles bicinctus
Blue Quail Synoicus adansonii
Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer
Harlequin Quail Coturnix delegorguei
Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami
Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
Garganey Spatula querquedula
White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
Western Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
Common Crane Grus grus
Stierling's Woodpecker Dendropicos stierlingi
Lesser Seedcracker Pyrenestes minor
East Coast Akalat Sheppardia gunningi
Böhm's Bee-eater Merops boehmi
Wattled Crane Grus carunculata
Evergreen Forest Warbler Bradypterus lopezi
Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus ruficapilla
Moustached Tinkerbird Pogoniulus leucomystax
Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri
Oriole Finch Linurgus olivaceus
White-starred Robin Pogonocichla stellata
Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum
Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
Grey Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris caesius
Black-fronted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons
White-tailed Crested Flycatcher Elminia albonotata
Green Barbet Cryptolybia olivacea
Lemon Dove Columba larvata
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes brevis
Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
Anchieta's Sunbird Anthreptes anchietae
Southern Red Bishop Euplectes orix
Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus
White-fronted Bee-eater Merops bullockoides
White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor
Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
African Pitta Pitta angolensis
African Darter Anhinga rufa
African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops
Grey Parrot Psittacus erithacus
Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
Yellow-collared Lovebird Agapornis personatus
Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli
Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
Purple-crested Turaco Gallirex porphyreolophus
Blue Crane Grus paradisea
Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
Blue Waxbill Uraeginthus angolensis
Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
Pied Crow Corvus albus
Mountain Wagtail Motacilla clara
White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Melaenornis fischeri
Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis
Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus
White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus
Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
Rock Dove Columba livia


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