Posts Tagged ‘owls’

Snowy Owl: A Visual Natural History by Paul Bannick From Mountaineers Books: The Snowy Owl–also known as the Arctic Owl, Snowy White Owl, and White Owl–is one of the most easily identified but least understood owls in the world. Award-winning author and photographer Paul Bannick delves into the natural history of this owl species, including […]

Owls: A Guide to Every Species in the World by Marianne Taylor From Harper Design: Discover the fascinating and mysterious world of owls with this stunning full-color, encyclopedic visual guide that explores all 225 known species, packed with maps, photographs, illustrations, informative scientific details, and a bonus 35½” x 12″ accordion poster illustrated with the […]

Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls by Paul Bannick From Mountaineers Books: In Owl, award-winning photographer Paul Bannick uses his intimate yet dramatic images to track four different nesting owl species, Northern Pygmy, Burrowing, Great Gray, and Snowy, throughout the course of one year and in four distinct habitats. Readers follow […]

Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by Scott Weidensaul From Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: This comprehensive work covering all the owls of North America, including Mexico and the Caribbean, is the newest addition to the trusted Peterson Reference Guide series. Owls are perhaps the most intriguing of all birds — instantly […]

The House of Owls by Tony Angell From Yale University Press: For a quarter of a century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting box outside the window of their forest home. The journals in which the author recorded his observations, […]

The Great Horned Owl: An In-depth Study by Scott Rashid From Schiffer Publishing: The Great Horned Owl is the largest owl found throughout most of North America. Adult owls are between eighteen to 24 inches from head to tail and can have a wing span of more than four feet. Their long ear tufts and […]

I wish I could review every bird book that I get. But, unfortunately, that doesn’t seem like it will happen. Here are some recent books that I haven’t gotten to yet. I may eventually post a full review for some of these, but I wanted to go ahead and give some brief thoughts on them. […]

I know why you’re here, Neo. I know what you’ve been doing… why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You’re looking for bird book reviews. (Or is that just me?) Owls The Birdbooker Report Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England 10,000 Birds […]

Owls by Marianne Taylor From Cornell University Press: From tiny Elf and Pygmy Owls through the familiar Tawny and Barn Owls to the giant Eagle and Fish Owls, these fierce hunters of dawn, dusk and night have long held a fascination for people around the world. This informative book, covering all owl species found in […]