Русский: Марка СССР: Колпица и каравайка (Астраханский заповедник). Серия: Фауна заповедников СССР
English: USSR stamp: Eurasian Spoonbill and Glossy Ibis (Astrakhan Nature Reserve). Series: Fauna of Soviet Wildlife Reservation
Date 14 October 1968
Source Scanned 600 dpi by User Matsievsky from personal collection
Author USSR Post
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1968_CPA_3676_stamp_(Eurasian_Spoonbill_and_Glossy_Ibis_(Astrakhan_Nature_Reserve)).jpg

The Eurasian spoonbill or common spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The genus name Platalea is from Latin and means "broad", referring to the distinctive shape of the bill, and leucorodia is from Ancient Greek leukerodios "spoonbill", itself derived from leukos, "white" and erodios "heron".

The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae. Plegadis falcinellus is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic and Caribbean regions of the Americas.