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"A snowy owl story is based on a true story of one owl's journey from the Arctic to Portland, Maine."--Cover.
Author : Melissa Kim
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Board books
ISBN : 9781939017482
"A snowy owl story is based on a true story of one owl's journey from the Arctic to Portland, Maine."--Cover.
Author : Divya Srinivasan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698151119
It's evening in the forest and Little Owl wakes up from his day-long sleep to watch his friends enjoying the night. Hedgehog sniffs for mushrooms, Skunk nibbles at berries, Frog croaks, and Cricket sings. A full moon rises and Little Owl can't understand why anyone would want to miss it. Could the daytime be nearly as wonderful? Mama Owl begins to describe it to him, but as the sun comes up, Little Owl falls fast asleep. Putting a twist on the bedtime book, Little Owl's Night is sure to comfort any child with a curiosity about the night.
Author : Eugene Potapov
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1408172178
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.
Author : Tracey Corderoy
Publisher : Little Tiger Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Individual differences
ISBN : 9781848950863
Once there was a little white owl who lived by himself in the snow. He didn't have a mummy. He didn't have a daddy. He didn't even have a name. But he didn't really mind too much. It had always been like that. And his head was full of happy stories... Then one day, the Little White Owl sets off to explore the world, and he gets a very wonderful surprise...
Author : Sandra Markle
Publisher : Millbrook Press (Tm)
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512431060
In late 2013, snowy owls started showing up in unlikely places, like Florida, . What caused these birds to leave their Arctic home? Markle explains the story behind the owls' unusual behavior in the winter of 2013-2014 and presents the science behind this "irruption" of owls. Full color.
Author : Jaclyn Jaycox
Publisher : Pebble
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 197710830X
Snowy owls call the bitterly cold Arctic their home. Learn how they live in this harsh environment. Snowy Owls tells readers how these birds find their prey, what dangers they have to watch out for, and more.
Author : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1481459163
"A photographic non-fiction picture book about the wonder of snowfall and the winter water cycle"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Bruce Hiscock
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1590784618
One snowy owl's first year and its struggle to survive. Fed by his parents, Ookpik, which means "snowy owl" in the Inuit language, grows quickly in the short Arctic summer. By autumn he has learned to hunt on his own, but prey is scarce on the tundra that year. The owl's instincts tell him that he must leave this land or starve. Ookpik flies south, over the great forests of Canada, and finally lands in the United States, always searching for food and a winter hunting ground. With vivid watercolor illustrations, Bruce Hiscock depicts the changing landscape, from the treeless Arctic of Baffin Island to the dairy country of eastern New York. There, Ookpik settles for the winter, much to the delight of bird watchers. An author's note offers additional details on the life of the snowy owl.
Author : Jonathan C. Slaght
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0374718091
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Longlisted for the National Book Award Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction A Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award Winner of the Peace Corps Worldwide Special Book Award A Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The BirdBooker Report, Geographical, Open Letter Review Best Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London) "A terrifically exciting account of [Slaght's] time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston’s fish owls, huge, shaggy-feathered, yellow-eyed, and elusive birds that hunt fish by wading in icy water . . . Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you.” —Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk, in Kirkus I saw my first Blakiston’s fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia . . . No scientist had seen a Blakiston’s fish owl so far south in a hundred years . . . When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Soon he was on a five-year journey, searching for this enormous, enigmatic creature in the lush, remote forests of eastern Russia. That first sighting set his calling as a scientist. Despite a wingspan of six feet and a height of over two feet, the Blakiston’s fish owl is highly elusive. They are easiest to find in winter, when their tracks mark the snowy banks of the rivers where they feed. They are also endangered. And so, as Slaght and his devoted team set out to locate the owls, they aim to craft a conservation plan that helps ensure the species’ survival. This quest sends them on all-night monitoring missions in freezing tents, mad dashes across thawing rivers, and free-climbs up rotting trees to check nests for precious eggs. They use cutting-edge tracking technology and improvise ingenious traps. And all along, they must keep watch against a run-in with a bear or an Amur tiger. At the heart of Slaght’s story are the fish owls themselves: cunning hunters, devoted parents, singers of eerie duets, and survivors in a harsh and shrinking habitat. Through this rare glimpse into the everyday life of a field scientist and conservationist, Owls of the Eastern Ice testifies to the determination and creativity essential to scientific advancement and serves as a powerful reminder of the beauty, strength, and vulnerability of the natural world.
Author :
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395292051
Many creatures are helped when two animals refuse to conform to the laws of the jungle. Of all the animals the elephant rescues, only the tiny ant returns the favour.