Owls

Owls — page 1 — LIVING WILD Published by Creative Education P O Box 227 Mankato Minnesota 56002 Creative Education is an imprint of The Creative Company www thecreativecompany us Design and production by Mary Herrmann Art direction by Rita Marshall Printed by Corporate Graphics in the United States of America Photographs by 123RF Pablo Caridad Dndavis Stephen Meese Paul Ransome Kuang Ying-Chou Alamy Arcticphoto The Art Archive Nathan Benn David Hosking William Leaman Peter Arnold Inc Photos 12 Picture Press Paris Pierce Robert Harding Picture Library Ltd Corbis Ron Austing Frank Lane Picture Agency Dreamstime Klomsky Marilyna Mirceax Tom Theodore Vasiliy Vishneskiy Bill Warchol Getty Images DEA G Dagli Orti Jeff Foott Art Wolfe Jeremy Woodhouse iStockphoto Ken Canning Gary Forsyth Ronald Glovan Andre Gravel Cynthia Lindow Megan Lorenz Rich Phalin John Pitcher Studioworxx Paul Tessier Frank Van Den Bergh Anna Yu Copyright 2012 Creative Education International copyright reserved in all countries No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data for the hardcover edition Gish Melissa Owls by Melissa Gish p cm Living wild Includes bibliographical references and index Summary A look at owls including their habitats physical characteristics such as their large and observant eyes behaviors relationships with humans and protected status in the world today ISBN 978-1-60818-081-3 hardcover ISBN 978-1-56660-051-4 eBook 1 Owls Juvenile literature I Title QL696 S8G57 2011 598 9’7 dc22 2010028308 CPSIA 110310 PO1385 First Edition 987654321 CREATIVE EDUCATION

Owls — page 2 — OWLS Melissa Gish

Owls — page 3 — As the sun inches behind a stand of tall ponderosa pines in Washington state’s Okanogan

Owls — page 4 — National Forest a shadowed ﬁgure stirs in a thicket

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