

No. 201 of 248 · The Natural History Series
Snowy Owl (Audubon)
Pictures by John James Audubon
A pair of snowy owls keep watch from a winter branch in John James Audubon's plate from The Birds of America. Audubon painted every bird life size, and these Arctic owls sometimes travel south to the northern United States in hard winters. For a bird lover or anyone who loves a quiet winter night.
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From the great natural-history books of the 1700s to the 1900s / Snowy Owl / Bubo scandiacus / Audubon painted a pair on a winter night. Snowy owls nest on the Arctic tundra and hunt by day in the endless summer light; in some winters they come south to the northern United States. / The Birds of America, 1827-38 / John James Audubon painted every bird life size; Robert Havell engraved and coloured the plates by hand in London.
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