Buy this book on-line MIKKOLA, HEIMO: : OWLS OF EUROPEUK.CALTON,STAFFS.T & A D POYSER Ltd.,1983. ISBN 0856610348.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.
No owner inscrptn,price-clipped dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background and colour pictorial artwork by Ian Willis,illustrated upper panel to dw/dj and a similar,colour vignette to spine/backstrip, with black lettering; publisher's advert for other works/titles to rear panel, with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.Dw/dj is slightly undersized with both top
+bottom corners of rear panel minisculely rubbed/frayed and with small closed nicks/tears and head of
spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edge very lightly dust-soiled and lightly grubbed/marked but generally bright and clean,fore-edges similar but brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and near pristine apart
from three accidental(?) dog-ear creases to top corners of pp71/6.Bright,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters and owl silhouette to spine/backstrip,with immaculate plain dark brown endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,5-397pp [paginated] includes contents,colour plates (I-VIII),photographs (b/w 75),b/w line figures (42),tables (69) lists, dedication,author introduction, acknowledgements,Pts I-III comprising 28 chapters,select bibliography,list of references,Tables 1-69 and an index.8 colour plates by Ian Willis,in one block between pp96/7 and 75 b/w photographs in another block,between pp192/3,the 42 b/w line figs (charts,graphs, tables etc) interspersed throughout the text and the book.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page,b/w line vignetted title-page and 2pp blanks at rear.
In this major work Dr Mikkola reviews the 13 owls breeding in Europe and an additional four species in lands adjoining the Mediterranean in North Africa and the Middle East.
The book has three Parts.
I: Special Characteristics - origins, taxonomy,anatomical features,pellets.
II: Species Descriptions - the 17 species described in detail,with voice,behaviour, food,breeding and distribution (34 maps).
III: Ecological Relationships - largely concerned with interactions between owls and with other birds of prey.
Identification,part of the Species Descriptions text,is more than supplemented by 8 superb colour plates by Ian Willis.In addition there are numerous line drawings and over 70 photographs.
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