The Birds was a set of five stamps intended as possible sports for the original $1 TOA stamps in 2005, but did not receive any publicity until 2007, when Colin used imperforate examples to decorate the post of winners of the Big Stamps eBay auctions (along with an interesting selection of other Discworld and Laernu stamps). I am unaware of any perforated examples of these stamps. The set was also included on the Three Years of Tower of Art archive sheet. All very Hitchcock! I like the final one where the birds are flying in close formation, and look like a giant virf.

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The above sequence is from the archive sheet, but is by no means the only combination of these in collections. Here are some other examples used for postal decorations.

The different combination of se-tenant stamps used on the first image suggests a different source of stamps to the archive sheet. The other with a single stamp has other items of interest. The different Merchants Guild Stamps may eventually be a featured item on this web site in the future, but did the lucky recipient notice that one of the triangles was the Inverted head Sport? The different appearances of the scans here is partly due to them being from different sources, however the mixed stamps on piece are almost certainly ink jet productions. If so they may be a slightly different size to the 'real thing' and may eventually start to fade!

For who just has to complete there is even this t-shirt featuring the Birds Sport. The sharper eyed will have noticed that these are perforated when no such stamps existed. Easy to fake but even easier to reproduce if some actually did.