Low PostNL involvement in Beleef de natuur – Saba emission

Tomorrow, Monday, January 5, the multi-year 'Experience Nature' issue will comprise 330 stamps, and by mid-August, the series will consist of 360 different stamps. People who use these stamps to frank a letter or card highly appreciate them as images, unlike collectors, because far too many stamps in this multi-year issue look alike to them. With the release of the 31st stamp sheet, PostNL (including designer Frank Janse) is clearly "throwing a blind eye" as early as the 5th day of the new year! The recognizability of the stamp image on at least two stamps is completely lost. It is not without reason that I introduced the osprey (bird 8) with its wings raised as a metaphorical stamp, along with the question regarding the substandard stamps: "What else does PostNL have in store for us this year with its stamp issuance policy, apart from a postage increase in July?" Issue details: graphic designer Fran Janse from Gpuda, print run 275.000 stamp sheets. Issue date 5 January 2025, printer Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé BV, in Haarlem. Birds of Saba 1) Red-billed tropicbirds (Phaethon Aethereus) find their niche in the higher regions of the tropical environment. 2) Petty thieves? Not at all, sugarbirds (Coereba Flaveola) are after white gold. 3) The little anicly (Crotophaga Ani) is very clearly present. 4) Black-winged stilts (Himantopus Mexicanus) sturdy types and yet so elegant.   3a) Under the bird name 'kleine-anikliek' on Google, I was surprised to see an image of a black bird (although on the stamp it is briefly referred to as 'kleine ani'!). By significantly enlarging the kleine-anikliek stamp (which I assumed to be berries on a bush), the seven 'berries' turned out to be seven young anikliek birds sitting close together, depicted frontally, as is evident from the accompanying stock photo of their natural environment. 5) A brown pelican (Palecanus Occidentalis) eats mainly fish, and it's not sick of it yet. 6) A blue bishop (Passerina Caerulea)? It must be from that wine. 5a) The brown pelican stamp presents me with a problem regarding recognizability: “What is this 'bird-likeness' I see on this horizontal stamp, which, together with a 'bird section' of the neighboring stamp, reminds me of a continuous image.” The Dutch bird name brown pelican reminded me of a BdN picture postcard (publisher www.pssm.nl) featuring a bird image with the same name on the image side.   The enlarged bird-eye section of the BdN postcard photo corresponds entirely with the stamp image in a mirrored horizontal position. Only with the help of this postcard did it become clear to me that, with 3 images of the pelican (one eye, a fragment of the beak, and a wing part in the background), the bird has been placed in a vertical position on a horizontal stamp. 6a) Finally, the detail image next to the blue pelican stamp: “Janse, why did you place a bird section to the left of the main bird? Surely placing an enlarged image of the blue pelican centrally would have improved the stamp image?” 7) Belted kingfishers (Megaceryle Alcyon) actually maintain a warm relationship with the tropics. 8) The osprey (Pandion Haliaetus) often takes advantage of the moment of silence to eat. 9) What vocal timbre does a Pied Warbler (Miniotilta Varia) have then? 10) How do you lure an American Crested Hummingbird (Orthorhyncus Cristatus) with a suet ball? Back of the brown pelican postcard (stamp 5).