Four critically endangered Indonesian birds – the Flores Hawk, the Siau Owl, the Sangihe Honeybird, and the Mandar Gendang, which is otherwise known as the Invisible Rail – will have their profiles raised a bit when they debut on Indonesian postage stamps. It is unclear if the Invisible Rail stamp will be blank.
Indonesia hosts 1,597 species, of which 126 are endangered – 19 critically.
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
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