Русский: Марка СССР: Утки мандаринки. Серия: Животный мир Сихотэ-Алинского государственного заповедника (к 35-летию со дня основания)
English: USSR stamp: Mandarin Ducks. Series: Fauna of Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve (35th Anniversary)
Date 19 August 1970
Source Scanned 600 dpi by User Matsievsky from personal collection
Author USSR Post
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1970_CPA_3915_stamp_(Mandarin_Ducks).jpg
The mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) is a perching duck species found in East Asia. Aix is an Ancient Greek word used by Aristotle to refer to an unknown diving bird, and galericulata is the Latin for a wig, derived from galerum, a cap or bonnet. |
