Birds catching fish

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Cape Verde, 20 escudos,  1994.

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Botswana, 50 thebe. 1976.  Fish eagle.

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Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 2 shillings, 1955.   African fish-eating eagle.

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South Africa, 2 cents, 1994.  African fish eagle.

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Solomon Islands, 1 dollar, 1998.  Sea eagle.

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Mauritius, 50 rupees, 1975.  Mauritius kestrel.


Just for a change, a bird catching a lizard.

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Malta, 1 lira.  Merrill bird  - blue rock thrush.


A bird catching a worm.

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Alderney, 2 pounds, 1997.  WWF collector coin.


What has this puffin caught?

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Bermuda, 2 dollars, 1992.  Eastern bluebird. Sialia sialis.


The early bird catches the worm.

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What has this puffin caught?

A COVID-19 mask.

Peter

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Reverse of the Cape Verde 5 escudos coin of 1994.

The reverse of the 5 escudos features an osprey.

I have seen many images of this beautiful design over the years.


Amazingly, it was only yesterday that I noticed that the bird is clutching a fish.

Previously, the fish must have merged with the rock in my mind.


Perhaps there is just too much going on in this design.

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Alderney, 2 pounds, 1997.  WWF collector coin.


What has this puffin caught?

Sand eels

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Thank you!