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The Snowy Owl
Author(s): Eugene Potapov (Author), Richard Sale (Author)
- Publisher: T & AD Poyser (UK)
- Publication Date: 17 Jan. 2013
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 0713688173
- ISBN-13: 9780713688177
Book Description
A comprehensive monograph of the beautiful Snowy Owl, famed for its elegant, all-white plumage.
The Snowy Owl gives this popular bird the full Poyser treatment, with sections on morphology, distribution, palaeontology and evolution, habitat, breeding, diet, population dynamics, movements, interspecific relationships and conservation, supported by some fabulous photography.
The Snowy Owl needs little introduction. This massive white owl breeds throughout the Arctic, wherever there are voles or lemmings to hunt, from Scandinavia through northern Russia to Canada and Greenland. Southerly movements in winter see North American birds travel as far south as the northern United States, while infrequent vagrants on the Shetlands and other northern isles are a magnet for birders.
The Snowy Owl gives this popular bird the full Poyser treatment, with sections on morphology, distribution, palaeontology and evolution, habitat, breeding, diet, population dynamics, movements, interspecific relationships and conservation, supported by some fabulous photography.
The award-winning author team also had access to Russian research literature, which is generally out of reach for Western scientists.
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About the Author
Raptor specialist Eugene Potapov and Arctic expert Richard Sale form a talented and experienced authorship team that has written some superb books for Christopher Helm. Their first Poyser title, The Gyrfalcon (2005), was the winner of The Wildlife Society’s ‘Best Science Book 2006’ award; Richard Sale’s work, A Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife (2006) is a spectacular addition to the Helm list.
