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Lester & Orpen Dennys [Published date: 1986]. Hard cover, 208 pp. [From front jacket flap] A Dowry of Owls is Larry McKeever's engaging story of life with Canada's Owl Lady, and of how he and his wife went from being sympathetic amateurs with owls in their bedroom to operating the world-famous Owl Rehabilitation Research Foundation. In 1967, Larry, then sixty, and looking forward to a leisurely retirement, married Kay MacFadyen. The couple drove off on their honeymoon with four dogs, two flying squirrels, and two pet owls. Once they had set up house with these animals?plus two more owls? their menagerie seemed complete. But then they were sent an injuredScreech Owl, and a pair of hurt Sawwhets. As word of their interest spread, the trickle of sick, maimed, and orphaned owls became a flood?and Larry's "leisurely retirement" turned into a hectic cycle of cage-making, bookkeeping, fund-raising, mealworm-breeding, and mouse-collecting (often with hilarious results). Larry describes their struggles to heal and release as many owls as possible, and to breed others in captivity so their offspring may go back to the wild. Some. inevitably, gained a special place in their affections: Cricket, the little Burrowin Owl who plays tag with the cats Tiglet, the tiny Screech Owl who imprinted on Kay and has been bent on her seduction ever since; and Granny, the gorgeous, endearing Spectacled Owl who'll adopt any winged orphan - including what became probably the world's first carnivorous chicken.
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- PublisherLester & Orpen Dennys
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0886190983
- ISBN 13 9780886190989
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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Cloth. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. An account of the author's life with Canada's Owl Lady and their operation of the world-famous 'Owl Rehabilitation Research Foundation'. Foreword by the Duke of Edinburgh. xiv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Book and dustjacket are 'as new' except for a presentation inscription in ink to the ffep. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, without overcharging. Unpacked weight 521g. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone as per the USPS. World rates based on specific destination and weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 052580
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A DOWRY OF OWLS
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (xiv) 208 pp. Black boards lettered in orange on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: Foreword by H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II; Introduction by Gerald Durrell; First There Was Kay; Then There Were Owls; The Owl for All His Feathers Was A-cold; O Come Poor Owl and Tell Thy Woes to Me; Of Owls and Pussycats; Two Owls and a Hen Four Larks and a Wren; Owls to Athens; Match-makiing and Motherhood; From Wheeper to Chricket: The Imprinted Owls; On the Mouse Run; The Sorry Howlet That Singeth How; An Iniquitous Device; A Day to Remember; Economy Class Owls; Unnatural Causes; Owls Underground: A Threatened Species; and The Peripatetic Partner; followed by Scientific Names of Owls Mentioned. Size: 8vo. Book. Seller Inventory # 226449
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