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One Man’s Owl

One Man’s Owl

Bernd Heinrich

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Princeton University Press
Año de edición:
1994
Materia
Fauna: aves y observación de aves
ISBN:
9780691000657
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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 an edition that has been abridged and revised so as to be more accessible to the general reader.

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