Owls of the World - A Photographic Guide: Second EditionBloomsbury Publishing, 2020/09/06 - 536 ページ Having trouble separating your scops from your screech owls, Tengmalm's from Tawny Owl or Collared and Spotted Owlets? Then this is the book for you. Owls of the World is the ultimate photographic resource dedicated to the identification of these charismatic, largely nocturnal birds of prey. This book contains lavish and spectacular photography from dozens of the world's finest natural history photographers, covering all of the world's 268 species of owls; particular attention is given to subspecific differences, sexing and ageing. The photos are accompanied by concise text on the identification, habitat, food, distribution and voice of these birds, along with accurate range maps. In this second edition, recent changes to owl taxonomy are incorporated with full descriptions (and images) of a number of new species, plus a several new photographs to improve this book's amazing photographic coverage still further. This is the definitive work on owl identification – no birder's bookshelf should be without it! |
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allopatric Barn Owl belly birds blackish blackish—brown Boobook Bubo Call Utters cere colour crown dark brown darker densely distribution Endemic dull yellowish dusky Eagle Owl ear—tufts Eastern Screech Owl Eurasian Eagle Owl eyes are yellow facial disc feathers are barred Females fine finely five flight Flight feathers Food and hunting forests Geographical variation Monotypic Glaucidium Grey Owl greyish greyish—brown Habitat Habitat Inhabits heavier than males hunting Feeds Identification A small insects Island Juvenile Downy chick larger leucistic Little Owl lowlands Madagascar Scops Owl mantle Mesoptile mottled nape nominate occipital face outer webs owl without ear—tufts pale paler plumage prominent Pygmy Owl race reddish—brown ruff scapulars SCOPS OWL Otus Screech Owl sexual size differences Similar species small owl smaller Southern Boobook Status and distribution streaks subspecies sympatric tail feathers tarsi Tawny Owl toes Tyto underparts upper breast upperparts Ural Owl vermiculated whitish eyebrows wing—coverts wings Wood Owl yellow eyes yellowish—brown