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One Man's Owl Abridged Edition
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernd Heinrich.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heinrich, Bernd, 1940---Anecdotes.
- Heinrich, Bernd.
- Great horned owl--Maine--Anecdotes.
- Great horned owl.
- Zoologists--United States--Anecdotes.
- Zoologists.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.) : 67 halftones 26 line illus.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1993]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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 an edition that has been abridged and revised so as to be more accessible to the general reader.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE MAN'S OWL
- Wild Owls
- An Owl in the House
- Owl at Kaflunk
- Beginning Hunter
- Freedom
- The Gourmand
- Attack Cues
- Companionship
- A Good-bye
- Reestablishing Friendships
- Return to Home Territory
- Life in the Cabin with Bubo
- Owl vs. Crows and Jays vs. Owl
- Defending the Meat and the Manor
- Matching Wits
- The End of Summer
- AFTERWORD TO THE ABRIDGED EDITION
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-23090-0
- OCLC:
- 1245669744
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