The owl who liked sitting on Caesar : living with a tawny owl /

The owl who liked sitting on Caesar : living with a tawny owl /

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Author / Creator:Windrow, Martin.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Description:viii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Tawny owl -- Great Britain.
Owls as pets -- Great Britain.
Owls.
Owls as pets.
Tawny owl.
Great Britain.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10073470
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Varying Form of Title:Living with a tawny owl
ISBN:9780374228460 (hbk.)
0374228469 (hbk.)
9780374711535 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (page 301-302).
Summary:The author reflects on his fifteen-year relationship with a tawny owl, an unlikely companionship marked by their incredulous neighbors, books, and unique care challenges.
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.

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