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Author: Ronald Lenard Smith
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 132884160X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter something strange happens during a camping trip, twelve-year-old alien-obsessed Simon suspects he has been abducted, but was it real or just his overactive imagination?
Author: Mike Clelland
Publisher:
Published: 2020-08-19
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781733980814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWithout question, this is a classic by one of the most exciting new authors in the UFO field today. After reading it, your view of reality will never be the same.The owl has held a place of reverence and mystique throughout history. And as strange as this might seem, owls are also showing up in conjunction with the UFO experience.Mike Clelland has collected a wealth of first-hand accounts in which owls manifest in the highly charged moments that surround alien contact. There is a strangeness to these accounts that defy simple explanations. This book explores implications that go far beyond what more conservative researchers would dare consider.But the owl connection encompasses more than the UFO experience. It also includes profound synchronicities, ancient archetypes, dreams, shamanistic experiences, personal transformation, and death. From the mythic legends of our ancient past to the first-hand accounts of the UFO abductee, owls are playing some vital role.This is also a deeply personal story. It is an odyssey of self-discovery as the author grapples with his own owl and UFO encounters. What plays out is a story of transformation with the owl at the heart of this journey.
Author: Timothy R. Smith
Publisher: Mackinac Island Press, Incorporated
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781934133118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe owls, who are the timekeepers of the woods, have stopped hooting, which means that everyone else's schedule is thrown off, and so Buck Wilder and his animal friends try to learn what is wrong and how to fix it.
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Ember
Published: 2004-05-11
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0375829164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times bestseller is a beloved modern classic. Hoot features a new kid and his new bully, alligators, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes. Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter? Welcome to Carl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder!
Author: Leigh Calvez
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: 2016-08-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1632170256
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“You’ll come away from this riveting book blessed with owl wisdom that will enlarge your world forever.” —Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology and The Soul of an Octopus In this New York Times bestseller, Leigh Calvez explores the night forest to uncover the secret lives of owls in this illuminating book for birders, animal lovers, and readers of H is for Hawk. Join a naturalist on her adventures into the world of owls, owl-watching, avian science, and the deep forest—often in the dead of night. Whether you’re tracking snowy or great horned owls, these birds are a bit mysterious, and that’s part of what makes them so fascinating. In The Hidden Lives of Owls, Leigh Calvez pursues 11 different owl species—including the Barred, Flammulated, Northern Saw-Whet, Northern Pygmy, Northern Spotted, Burrowing, Snowy, and Great Gray. In an entertaining and accessible style, Calvez relays the details of her avian studies, from the thuggish behavior of barred owls—which puts the spotted owl at risk—to the highly unusual appearance of arctic snowy owls in the Lower 48, which directly reflects the state of the vole population in the Arctic. As Calvez takes readers into the lives of these strange and majestic creatures, she also explores questions about the human-animal connection, owl obsession, habitat, owl calls, social behavior, and mythology. Hoot!
Author: Jonathan C. Slaght
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0374718091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Longlisted for the National Book Award Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction A Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award Winner of the Peace Corps Worldwide Special Book Award A Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The BirdBooker Report, Geographical, Open Letter Review Best Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London) "A terrifically exciting account of [Slaght's] time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston’s fish owls, huge, shaggy-feathered, yellow-eyed, and elusive birds that hunt fish by wading in icy water . . . Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you.” —Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk, in Kirkus I saw my first Blakiston’s fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia . . . No scientist had seen a Blakiston’s fish owl so far south in a hundred years . . . When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Soon he was on a five-year journey, searching for this enormous, enigmatic creature in the lush, remote forests of eastern Russia. That first sighting set his calling as a scientist. Despite a wingspan of six feet and a height of over two feet, the Blakiston’s fish owl is highly elusive. They are easiest to find in winter, when their tracks mark the snowy banks of the rivers where they feed. They are also endangered. And so, as Slaght and his devoted team set out to locate the owls, they aim to craft a conservation plan that helps ensure the species’ survival. This quest sends them on all-night monitoring missions in freezing tents, mad dashes across thawing rivers, and free-climbs up rotting trees to check nests for precious eggs. They use cutting-edge tracking technology and improvise ingenious traps. And all along, they must keep watch against a run-in with a bear or an Amur tiger. At the heart of Slaght’s story are the fish owls themselves: cunning hunters, devoted parents, singers of eerie duets, and survivors in a harsh and shrinking habitat. Through this rare glimpse into the everyday life of a field scientist and conservationist, Owls of the Eastern Ice testifies to the determination and creativity essential to scientific advancement and serves as a powerful reminder of the beauty, strength, and vulnerability of the natural world.
Author: Annette Whipple
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-28
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781478869634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do owls see in the dark? Can owls spin their heads all the way around? Why do owls puke? These and other questions are answered by an owl expert, along with some extra information provided by the owls themselves!
Author: Natachee Scott Momaday
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780803281844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Navaho boy with a secret wish is torn by conflicting cultures.
Author: Margaret Craven
Publisher: Dell
Published: 2017-11-14
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1101969539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmid the grandeur of the remote Pacific Northwest stands Kingcome, a village so ancient that, according to Kwakiutl myth, it was founded by the two brothers left on earth after the great flood. The Native Americans who still live there call it Quee, a place of such incredible natural richness that hunting and fishing remain primary food sources. But the old culture of totems and potlatch is being replaces by a new culture of prefab housing and alcoholism. Kingcome's younger generation is disenchanted and alienated from its heritage. And now, coming upriver is a young vicar, Mark Brian, on a journey of discovery that can teach him—and us—about life, death, and the transforming power of love.
Author: Georgia Cameron
Publisher:
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9780995429406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis limited-edition photo book showcases Mikey the Powerful Owlet, his family, friends and the community campaign (Byles Creek Valley Union, Save Beecroft and Cheltenham Alliance, and Beecroft Cheltenham Civic Trust) to save his home in Byles Creek Valley (Beecroft and Cheltenham) from development. Byles Creek Valley was named after Marie Beuzeville Byles (8 April 1900 - 21 November 1979), a committed conservationist, pacifist, the first practising female solicitor in New South Wales, mountaineer, explorer, avid bushwalker, feminist, journalist, original member of the Buddhist Society in New South Wales and founder of the Beecroft Cheltenham Civic Trust who donated her home ?Ahimsa? in Day Road Cheltenham to the National Trust (The summit of her ambition: the spirited life of Marie Byles by author Anne McLeod, 2016). While written in the voice of a juvenile Powerful Owl (a vulnerable species in NSW), the book aims to educate readers on Australia's largest owl and their habitat including references to Sydney Wildlife and Australian Wildlife Rescue Organisation.The foreword has been written by Graham Ross VMM (local celebrity, radio broadcaster, TV presenter and horticultural expert) and afterword by David Shoebridge (Member NSW Legislative Council), both of whom have contributed to the campaign to save Mikey's home. Mikey's family have been surveyed for four years as part of BirdLife Australia's Powerful Owl Project. Accordingly, $5 from each limited first edition hardcopy sold will be donated to this cause, so they can continue their mission "to learn from and help conserve remaining Powerful Owl populations".
