THE SKYLARK. By Paul F. Donald. Illustrated with line drawings and colour plates by Alan Harris.

THE SKYLARK. By Paul F. Donald. Illustrated with line drawings and colour plates by Alan Harris.

THE PEREGRINE FALCON. By Derek Ratcliffe. With illustrations by Donald Watson.

THE PEREGRINE FALCON. By Derek Ratcliffe. With illustrations by Donald Watson.

THE SNOWY OWL. By Eugene Potapov and Richard Sale.

2012 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp304. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations by Jackie Garner, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

A new Poyser Species Monograph on the magnificent white owl of the tundra. This book looks in great detail at the life of the snowy owl - its systematics and taxonomy, distribution, habitat preferences, hunting methods, breeding behaviour, status, and historical and present associations with man. Chapters include: What makes a Snowy Owl?; Breeding range; Palaentology, systematics and evolution; Winter and summer habitats; Breeding; Timing of hatch; Diet; Numbers and population density; Winter range and winter records; Snowy Owl friends and foes; Snowy Owls and people; Species list. "A MUST have for those with a technical or semi-technical interest in the species." (Ian Paulson, The Guardian).
£25.00
Availability: In stock
Book Code
40303
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Author Potapov (Eugene) and Sale (Richard).
Book Code 40303
ISBN 0713688173 / 9780713688177 / PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 50.00.
Book Description Fine new copy in dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 2012
Publisher T and AD Poyser.
Place London.