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One man's owl

Author: Bernd Heinrich; Alice Calaprice
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This engaging chronicle of how the author and the great horned owl "Bubo" came to know one another over three summers spent in the Maine woods--and of how Bubo eventually grew into an independent hunter--is now available in a revised and abridged edition to be more accessible to the general reader.
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Genre/Form: Anecdotes
Named Person: Bernd Heinrich; Bernd Heinrich
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bernd Heinrich; Alice Calaprice
ISBN: 0691000654 9780691000657
OCLC Number: 27770462
Description: x, 186 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Wild owls --
An owl in the house --
Owl at Kaflunk --
Beginning hunter --
Freedom --
The Gourmand --
Attack cues --
Companionship --
A goodbye --
Reestablishing friendships --
Return to the home territory --
Life in the cabin with Bubo --
Owl vs. crows and jays vs. owl --
Defending the eat and the manor --
Matching wits --
The tail molt and evolution --
The end of summer.
Responsibility: by Bernd Heinrich ; with drawings and photographs by the author ; abridged and revised by Alice Calaprice.
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This engaging chronicle of how the author and the great horned owl "Bubo" came to know one another over three summers spent in the Maine woods--and of how Bubo eventually grew into an independent hunter--is now available in a revised and abridged edition to be more accessible to the general reader.

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