The Snowy Owl - possibly the world's sexiest bird - needs littleintroduction. This massive white owl breeds throughout the Arctic,wherever there are voles or lemmings to hunt, from Scandinavia throughnorthern Russia to Canada and Greenland. Southerly movements in wintersee North American birds travel as far south as the northern UnitedStates, while infrequent vagrants on the Shetlands and other northernisles are a magnet for birders. The Snowy Owl gives this popular bird the full Poyser treatment, withsections on morphology, distribution, palaeontology and evolution,habitat, breeding, diet, population dynamics, movements, interspecificrelationships and conservation, supported by some fabulous photography.A major strength is the availability to the authors of Russianliterature, which is generally out of reach for Western scientists.