Birds and Butterflies from The Victoria Butterfly Gardens in Canada

International Postcard Week

October 5-11, 2025

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Victoria Butterfly Gardens 

Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada

This postcard was postmarked in 2025.

A New Zealand Parrot

Kea
New Zealand's famous mountain parrot.

These audacious birds often live around the snowline, apparently knowing no cold or fear.  Easily approached and fed, they eat all kinds of things - especially bright, shiny, chewy, or colorful objects..... that may be attached to your car.  Although amusing, they are potentially destructive and dangerous - anything could get pecked, including eyes (colourful and shiny).

This postcard was postmarked in 2017. 

A Monkey and a Parrot from The Rainforest Cafe

Wild Adventures at the
Rainforest Cafe
Orlando, Florida

Bamba
Image # 48903
Later Press

2017

Amazon Parrots from Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican
Amazon Parrot

The Puerto Rican Amazon is one of the rarest parrots in the world and the only parrot found within the U.S. and its territories.  Found only within the El Yunque Rainforest, the Puerto Rican Parrot Recovery Program is devoted to bringing these crown jewels of Puerto Rico back from the brink of extinction.

Photo: 2004, M. Stafford

Endangered Puerto Rican Parrots

El Yunque National Forest
Puerto Rico

The endangered Puerto Rican parrot is an endemic species, unique to Puerto Rico, and found nowhere else in the world.  The distinctive features of this colorful bird are a white eye ring, blue underwing, red crown and white beak.

Photo: J. Scott Graham
2015

The sender writes:
Our tour guide said there was less than 100 of these parrots left.  They are working to try to help them survive. 

Lorikeet Landing at the Lowry Park Zoo

Lorikeet Landing
Have them eating from your hand
Lowry Park Zoo - Lory, Lory, Hallelujah!

Lorikeets and Lories

Lorikeet Landing at the Oregon Zoo contains 10 species of the 53 known worldwide.  These small parrots are housed in a walkthrough exhibit where zoo visitors can feed nectar to these highly social birds.  Lories are found throughout Oceania, frm Australia to Tahiti.
2003

Animals on a Metallic Postcard

A Panda, Hippo, Elephants, Parrot,  Hummingbird & Butterflies on a metallic postcard.  

This card was bought around 1998 and like most metallic cards, the scan doesn't do it justice.

A Parrot in the Artwork 'Bounty' by Audrey Flack

Detail from "Bounty" by Audrey Flack c. 1978
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
The Reynolda House Museum of American Art is in the former estate of R.J. Reynolds. Remington, Benton, and Stuart are just some of the American artists featured here.

This postcard is postmarked in 1992.

Birds of the Bahamas

Birds of the Bahamas

1. Red-legged Thrush
2. Kirtland's Warbler
3. Bahama Woodstar
4. Cuban Grassquit
5. White-cheeked Pintail
6. Bahama Mockingbird
7. (National Bird) Greater Flamingo
8. Green Heron
9. Bananaquit
10. Bahama Parrot

2008

A Parrot for Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville

Jimmy Buffett's
Margaritaville
Las Vegas, Nevada

This is a shaped postcard featuring a sunset and a parrot.
2014

A Green Bird for Saint Patrick's Day

The Wearing of the Green
St. Patrick Series 1

The flag says Erin go Brag, that I understand, but why is her parrot smoking a pipe?
I like the fact that they gave her an oversized caricature head.
1908

Birds - Carolina Parrot, John James Audubon

The North Carolina Museum of Art

John James Audubon. American, 1785-1851
Carolina Parrot
Engraved, printed and colored, 38 1/2 X 25 38 in.
Gift of the North Carolina State Library
1983

Parrots at the Arenal Volcano National Park in Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Parque Nacional Volcan Arenal
Arenal Volcano National Park

Fotos Jean Mercier
2009

A Macaw - A Fluffy Close Up

A Beautiful Macaw
2013

Parrots and Dolphins from Orlando, Florida

Orlando, Florida - a Magical Place

Design by Ed Cunningham

This postcard features a map of Florida, a train, some parrots and a couple of dolphins. The castle looks like the one at Disney, my guess is they made it white so they do not have to pay Disney any fees for using the picture.
2010

Animals of Pantanal Matogrossense in Brazil

Pantanal Matogrossense (Pantanal)
Santuario Ecologico (Ecological Sanctuary)

Aspectos do Pantanal

Fotos: Sirnay Moro e Embratur

featuring birds, parrots, monkeys, alligators, a capybara and a  tapir

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The Pantanal is a tropical wetland and the world's largest wetland of any kind. It lies mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul but extends into Mato Grosso as well as into portions of Bolivia and Paraguay, sprawling over an area estimated at between 140,000 square kilometers (54,000 sq mi) and 195,000 square kilometers (75,000 sq mi).

80% of the Pantanal floodplains are submerged during the rainy seasons, nurturing an astonishing biologically diverse collection of aquatic plants and helping support a dense array of animal species.

The name "Pantanal" comes from the Portuguese word pântano, meaning wetland, bog, swamp or marsh. By comparison, the Brazilian highlands are locally referred to as the planalto, plateau or, literally, high plain.

UNESCO World Heritage Site

A Parrot That Wants Postcards, Not Crackers

Forget the Cracker ....
Polly wants a Postcard!

Red Lored Amazon Parrot

bought here in 2013....
www.9teen87sPostcards.blogspot.com

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Red-lored Amazons are fairly common pet parrots in the Americas. They can be devoted pets and some make fairly good talkers. Like most Amazon parrots they often have a tendency to vocalize loudly, and sometimes to bite. Their behavior ranges from being quiet and curious to being aggressive, this can all be changed by basic training when the bird is of young age.

Avocado and eggplant are poisonous to them.

Animals of Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Fauna de Costa Rica:
Iguana, Mono Congo, Lapas Rojas, Perezoso, Tucanes

Costarican Fauna:
Iguana, Howler Monkey, Scarlet Macaws, Sloth, Toucans
2011