This set of three international postage paid envelopes and five aerogrammes features eight species of waterbird that spend at least part of their annual migration in Australia.

Aerogrammes

• The Pied Heron
• Eastern Curlew
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Wandering Whistling-Duck
• Roseate Tern

International Postage Paid Envelopes:

• Latham's Snipe - DL
  
• Yellow-nosed Albatross - C5
  
• Soft-plumaged Petrel - C4
  

The wonderful illustrations are from lithographs by Henry Constantine Richter, published in John Gould's The Birds of Australia, released between 1840 and 1848. Following the tragic death of Elizabeth Gould - John Gould's wife and primary artist - Richter was engaged by the ornithologist and publisher as his lead artist. Richter was responsible for nearly 600 of the 681 colour lithographs in Gould's seven-volume tome on Australian birds.