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Bezig met laden... The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar: Living with a Tawny Owl (2014)door Martin Windrow
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The sweet, well written story of Martin living with Mumble, a tawny owl, in England. He covers the history of this bird, it's anatomy and provides colorful stories of this birds personality and habits as he shares 15 years with Mumble. They lived in both the city of London in a 7th floor flat and out in a countryside home is Sussex. Very sweet! I enjoyed it thoroughly! ( ) There's about one magazine article worth of really great material here; anecdotes and genuine emotion. Then there's some diary entries, etc which would be tremendously useful if, say, you were considering getting an owl as a pet. He really does include both the good and the bad in here, and that's pretty fascinating. The rest of the book (about 50% by volume) consists of the author, who knows a great deal about many things but who is, at best, an amateur anatomist, trying to lecture us on owl physiognomy. He's mostly not -wrong- in this, but it's not his strength, and therefore is really quite the slog. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The story of an odd couple: a British military historian and the Tawny Owl with whom he lived for fifteen years. Adorable but with knife-sharp talons, Mumble became Windrow's closest, if at times unpredictable, companion, first in a South London flat and later in the more owl-friendly Sussex countryside. Windrow recalls with wry humor their finer moments as well as the reactions of incredulous neighbors, the awkwardness of buying Mumble unskinned rabbit at Harrods Food Hall... and an unexpected education in the paleontology, zoology, and sociology of owls. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)598.9Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Birds Raptors, birds of preyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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