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A comprehensive monograph of the beautiful Snowy Owl, famed for its elegant, all-white plumage.
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.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Introduction
1 What makes a snowy owl?
2 Breeding range
3 Palaentology, systematics and evolution
4 Winter and summer habitats
5 Breeding
6 Timing of hatching
7 Diet
8 Numbers of population density
9 Winter range and winter records
10 Snowy Owl friends and foes
11 Snowy Owls and people
Colour Plates
Appendix 1: Species list
Appendix 2: Glossary
References
Product details
| Published | Apr 25 2013 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781408172186 |
| Imprint | T & AD Poyser |
| Illustrations | 20 black and white illustrations; 40 colur photos |
| Series | Poyser Monographs |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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