The Australian birds putting their stamp on the urban environment

Australia Post’s backyard bird count stamp series highlights the most commonly found birds in Australian gardens, but the list hasn’t always been static. Photograph: Australia Post

Australia Post has released a series of stamps to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Aussie Bird Count and the birds they have chosen may surprise you.

Unless of course, you are one of the more than 100,000 Australians who have taken part in what has become the country’s biggest citizen science project. You would know that when BirdLife Australia release the results of all the surveys that they participated in, the species that feature – rainbow lorikeet, noisy miner and Australian magpie – have been the three most common birds in every year of the Aussie Bird Count so far.