1180, 1181, 3265 ROMANIA (Tulcea) - Danube Delta (UNESCO WHS)

3265 Danube Delta - Flying birds

Posted on 13.08.2014, 24.11.2019
The Danube Delta is the second largest river delta in Europe, after Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent. The greater part lies in Romania (Tulcea county), while its northern part, on the left bank of the Chilia arm, is situated in Ukraine (Odessa Oblast). The modern Danube Delta began to form after 4000 BCE in a bay of the Black Sea, when the sea rose to its present level. A sandy barrier blocked the Danube bay where the river initially built its delta. Probably 40 percent of the Delta was built in the last 1000 years. The reserve is vast, with numerous freshwater lakes interconnected by narrow channels featuring huge expanses of aquatic vegetation. 

1181 Birds of Danube Delta

 

This is the largest continuous marshland on Europe, which includes the greatest stretch of reedbeds in the world, which form floating or fixed islands of decaying vegetation. The Razelm-Sinoe complex to the south comprises several large brackish lagoons separated from the sea by a sandbar. The higher ground supports stands of willow, popular, alder and oak. There are also sandy areas covered with feather grass and other steppe species. Forest elements are best observed in Letea Forest (in the postcard 1180) where a series of bands occur along dunes up to 250 m long and 10 m wide.

1180 Danube Delta - Letea Forest

Situated on major migratory routes, and providing adequate conditions for nesting and hatching, the Danube Delta is a magnet for birds from six major eco-regions of the world, including the Mongolian, Arctic and Siberian. There are over 320 species of birds found in the delta during summer, of which 166 are hatching species and 159 are migratory. Over one million individuals (swans, wild ducks, bald coots, etc.) winter here. An interesting ethologic aspect appearing enhanced by the conditions of the Danube Delta (especially by the floods) is represented by egg laying in common nests. Thus, as a consequence of the general lack of egg-laying places, especially at flood time when a great part of the aquatic-species nests are flooded, the birds this way affected go on laying eggs in alien nests either belonging to the same species or to species of the same families.

About the stamps
On the postcards 1180, 1181

The both stamps are parte of the series Golden Stars of Stage and Screen, issued on March 1st 2014, and dedicated to some of the most beloved actors of Romania:
• Mircea Albulescu (1934-2016) - It's on the postcard 2674
• Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez (1929-2019) - It's on the postcard 1803
• Valeria Gagealov (born in 1931 in Galaţi) - It's on the postcard 1835
• Ileana Stana Ionescu (born in 1936 in Brad)
• Draga Olteanu Matei (born in 1993 in Bucharest) - It's on the postcard 1181
• Marin Moraru (1937-2016) - It's on the postcard 1186
• George Motoi (1936-2015) - It's on the postcard 1669
• Sebastian Papaiani (1936-2016) - It's on the postcard 1821
• Florin Piersic (born in 1936 in Cluj) - It's on the postcard 1180
• Mitică Popescu (born in 1936 in Bucharest)
• Sanda Toma (born in 1934 in Bucharest)
• Olga Tudorache (1929-2017) - It's on the postcard 1245

On the postcard 3265

The stamp is one of the two designed by Ursachi and issued on April 12, 2019 by Romfilatelia for Europa Stamps 2019, with the theme National Birds.
• Eurasian skylark / Alauda arvensis (1.80 RON) It's on the postcard 3265
• Golden eagle / Aquila chrysaetos (19 RON)

References
Danube Delta - Wikipedia
Danube Delta - UNESCO official website

Sender 1180: Andrei Cătălin Jucătoru
Sent from Eforie Sud (Constanţa / Romania), on 08.08.2014
Sender 1181: Mircea Ivănescu
Sent from Eforie Sud (Constanţa / Romania), on 08.08.2014
Sender 3265: Mihnea Răducu and the postcrossers who participated to the Postcardsmarket Adventure, which held in Danube Delta between 24 and 26 May 2019.
Sent from Sulina (Tulcea / Romania) on 27.05.2019 
Edited by Postcardsmarket: Danube Delta - Romania UNESCO WHS site - 01 Flying birds