Eugene Potapov, Richard Sale

The Snowy Owl (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408172179
• Artikelnr.: 38282528

Autorenporträt

Raptor specialist Eugene Potapov gained his DPhil at the EGI in Oxford and has worked extensively on Arctic birds in Siberia. His first Poyser title, The Gyrfalcon (2005), was the winner of The Wildlife Society's 'Best Science Book 2006' award.