Owls and bubophiles – the earliest representation is 30,000 years old, in the Chauvet Cave in France; Picasso kept one, so did Florence Nightingale.
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
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£16.99
Edition:Hardback978086154690906/07/2023
Categories: 09. Summer Books 2023: Nature & Gardens, Natural History, Summer Books 2023
Tag: Birds & Beasts
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Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us
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An entrancing book of Stone's C18th ornithological watercolours, derived from the discoveries of Cook and others.
Sarah Stone’s Unseen Worlds
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