One Man's Owl

by Bernd Heinrich

Hardcover, 1993

Call number

598 HEI

Collection

Publication

Princeton University Press (1994), Edition: 240 pages

Description

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.

User reviews

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The author, a naturalist and biology professor, spends a few months a year in his rustic cabin in Maine. Early one summer he finds an owlet, blown out of it's nest by a storm and takes the bird back to his cabin. This is our introduction to Bubo, a Great Horned Owl, that the author raises for the
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next 3 summers. He feeds the bird mainly road-kill and slowly tries to adapt the raptor to fend for himself.
This is a wonderful book, for bird & nature lovers and Heinrich is an excellent writer, with a profound love of nature. The star of the book is Bubo though. A fierce, quirky and playful bird, that can exude menace one moment and nibble your fingers affectionately the next. I am not sure I could spend such close proximity with this bird for such a long period but I sure loved reading about the experience.
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Pages

240

ISBN

0691000654 / 9780691000657
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