Cape Coral Burrowing Owls Don T Hoot

This book is the only non-fiction book written specifically about the Burrowing Owls of Cape Coral, Florida. It gives the history of Cape Coral and how the owls got there. Learn about the owl's diet, habitat, reproduction, senses, feathers, flight, and more. Even though there may be as many as 3500 owls in the city, navigating around the city's extensive 400-mile canal system can be a challenge, and finding the owls can be equally challenging. This book can serve as your guide. Even if you are not planning on visiting, you will learn how every structure in their body works towards two goals, flight, and eating. Personal stories from the author are scattered throughout the book and wouldn't you want to know why you might find a pair of ladies' underwear in front of a burrow?

Prior to the 1950's, Cape Coral had vast expanses of wetlands, teeming with beautiful waterbirds, and miles and miles of woodland areas that was home to an incredible variety of wildlife. Then the bulldozers came and destroyed most of the habitat of the wildlife that existed here. But like the Phoenix, out if [sic] the destruction, the little Burrowing Owl, found Cape Coral to be perfect habitat. With miles and miles of soft sandy soil they could dig thier [sic] burrows, and they thrived. But the bulldozers continue to roll and the future for these tiny little birds looks bleak. Cape Coral is expected to build out to 450,000 people with little room left for the Burrowing Owl. It is hoped that this little book gives you an understanding of these marvelous creatures and why they should be protected so future generations will have the joy of seeing these beautiful birds in person.

Seventy six pages of beautiful, interesting, cute pictures of the diminutive burrowing owls of Cape Coral, Florida.

Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

A comprehensive account of the birds of Africa. The text covers all the avifaunal families that occur in Africa, discusses the species that occur within each family, and provides representative examples of each family in depth.

Text and photographs introduce that valiant bird of prey, the bald eagle.

"On the savanna, animals--including leopards, impalas, eagles, hares and hippos--use locomotion to capture prey and escape predators"--

A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers, in particular. Written in the style of a memoir penned by Antonia’s tutor and friend, the book depicts one of the most memorable heroines in American literature, the spirited eldest daughter of a Czech immigrant family, whose calm, quite strength and robust spirit helped her survive the hardships and loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. The two form an enduring bond and through his chronicle, we watch Antonia shape the land while dealing with poverty, treachery, and tragedy. “No romantic novel ever written in America...is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.” -H. L. Mencken Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments. By the time of her death she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry.