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).