What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds Gower charts the many changes

Gower charts the many changes to Britain’s bird life over the last 50 years

the electricity of encounter

looks to our ancestors

A warm celebration of one of our greatest nature writers

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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds Gower charts the many changes*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* A TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Fascinating we often hear a barn owl screeching in a stand of pine trees behind the house. Its an eerie, mysterious sound that never fails to enchant. And it is this enchantment that is at the core of this charming, deeply researched book.' GUARDIAN 'Once again, Jennifer Ackerman has written a fascinating, fact filled and wonderfully readable work of popular science this time on