The Snowy Owl
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.
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The Snowy Owl
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.
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The Snowy Owl

The Snowy Owl

The Snowy Owl

The Snowy Owl

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781408172179
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 01/17/2013
Series: Poyser Monographs
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 12 MB
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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.
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.
Arctic expert Richard Sale form a talented and experienced author team. His first Poyser title, The Gyrfalcon (2005), was the winner of The Wildlife Society's 'Best Science Book 2006' award, while his book A Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife (Christopher Helm, 2006) has sold strongly and received excellent reviews.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
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
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