The Owl Handbook Investigating the Lives, Habits, and Importance of These Enigmatic Birds by John Shewey

The Owl Handbook

Investigating the Lives, Habits, and Importance of These Enigmatic Birds by John Shewey is a new, fascinating, captivating, beautiful book by Timber Press. Written by an enthusiast of the topic, this one is the pefect book, for you.

Owls: extraordinary intelligent creatures but.... partially misunderstood. 

Although beautiful animals, there are still problems because considered, wrongly, being nocturnal animals, the obscure part of that humanity, close to the darkest powers of this world. 

For a long long time, as you will read, owls have been discriminated, treated seriously bad just because they live and interact the most during the night, and maybe because they are curious animals. 

Yes, they are curious: 14 vertebrae in the neck, men just 7, they can rotate their head wherever they want to look at. They are brutal hunters, but their action in the environment is absolutely indispensible because they keep clean places by snakes, mouse and other sometimes disturbing animals.

In the book you will find wagons of beautiful pictures of these animals also thanks to the fact that in the USA and Canada there are many varieties, all differents, and each of them is unique in its own way. You will find great explanation of every owl in a special chapter dedicated to them. 

The author will explain you how to interact with them, trying to understand their behavior,  offering advice to the peoople interested to become friend with them, explaining also  to the reader how to help their preservation. 

A splendid  book for all the passionate of wild animals and nocturnal ones, serious, complete. It doesn't forget anything.

Personally, let me add this, I have had a little owl in our barn years ago. It has been a beautiful experience. They are friendly animals, close to the man more than what we can believe and truly truly affectionate if you treat them well. Gustavo became a photo-addicated!  Oh, of course I had called that little owl Gustavo

(but it could be a girl-owl of course!) and I have seen him again once adult several times.

Highly recommended book!

Anna Maria Polidori