Ascension - Bird Favorites 1934 and 1963

                                                                                 1934

Wideawake Tern or just wideawake. This refers to the incessant calls produced by a colony of these birds, as does the Hawaiian name ʻewa ʻewa which roughly means "cacophony".

This beautiful stamp - see closely shows a large colony of birds sitting closely , taking care of their eggs and nesting.

The 1963 set represents birds  that are close to the Oceans and the seas. Its true that no birds spends its  entire life at sea but many do. In the following stamp set the 6d - Sooty Tern spends a long time a before it returns to land to breed .

Some of them feed on land others believe to snatch away food in flight from others.

1963  

The £1 high value stamp of the Red Footed Booby is my favorite , but i think this complete set with all these one of a kind "Oceans and sea birds" makes it a lovely to have in a collection 

1d -  Brown Booby    Sula leucogaster     

1½d -  Black Noddy    Anous minutus    

2d - White Tern    Gygis alba    

3d - Red-billed Tropicbird    Phaethon aethereus    

4½d -  Brown Noddy    Anous stolidus    

6d -  Sooty Tern    Onychoprion fuscatus    

7d - Ascension Frigatebird    Fregata aquila    

10d -  Masked Booby    Sula dactylatra    

1s - White-tailed Tropicbird    Phaethon lepturus    

1s6d - Red-billed Tropicbird    Phaethon aethereus    

2s6d -  Band-rumped Storm Petrel    Oceanodroma castro    

5s - Red-footed Booby    Sula sula    

10s  - Ascension Frigatebird    Fregata aquila    

1£  - Red-footed Booby    Sula sula