Snowy Owls: Stealthy Hunting Birds

Snowy Owls: Stealthy Hunting Birds — page 1 — Copyright 2016 by Lerner Publishing Group Inc All rights reserved International copyright secured No part of this book may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group Inc except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review Lerner Publications Company A division of Lerner Publishing Group Inc 241 First Avenue North Minneapolis MN 55401 USA For reading levels and more information look up this title at www lernerbooks com Photo Acknowledgments The images in this book are used with the permission of MyImages Micha Shutterstock com p 1 Mikel Bilboa Gorostiaga-Nature Landscapes Alamy pp 4 9 top left iStockphoto com Marc_ Latremouille p 5 iStockphoto com unew p 6 11 left Phil Degginger Animals Animals p 7 top Jim Zipp Ardea Animals Animals p 7 bottom Abi Warner Shutterstock com p 8 iStockphoto com jtyler p 9 top right Natalia Paklina Shutterstock com p 9 bottom iStockphoto com Canon_Bob p 10 FloridaStock Shutterstock com p 11 right Laura Westlund Independent Picture Service p 12 Steve Kazlowski DanitaDelimont com Newscom p 13 top Maresa Pryor Luzier Photography Animals Animals p 13 bottom Nature Picture Library Alamy p 14 Mark Chappell Animals Animals p 15 Tier und Naturfotografie SuperStock p 16 Chuck Haney DanitaDelimont com Newscom p 17 left age fotostock SuperStock p 17 right Popova Valeriya Shutterstock com p 18 iStockphoto com Lynn_Bystrom pp 19 23 left Ondrej Prosicky Shutterstock com p 20 Debscreative Dreamstime com p 21 top Jon Nelson flickr com CC BY 2 0 p 21 bottom Awcnz62 Dreamstime com p 22 Andrew Walmsley Alamy p 23 right Juergen Christine Sohns Animals Animals p 24 Winfried Wisniewski Minden Pictures SuperStock p 25 top Gerrit Vyn Animals Animals p 25 bottom Design Pics Newscom p 26 jspix imageBROKER Newscom p 27 left iStockphoto com tntphototravis p 27 right E R Degginger Science Source p 28 Marhow Dreamstime com p 29 top Marie Read Animals Animals p 29 bottom Front cover Tom Middleton Shutterstock com Back cover Harald Henkel flickr com CC BY-ND 2 0 Main body text set in Calvert MT Std 12 18 Typeface provided by Monotype Typography Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hirsch Rebecca E author pages cm Comparing animal traits Snowy owls Stealthy Hunting Birds by Rebecca E Hirsch Audience Ages 7 10 Audience Grades K to 3 ISBN 978-1-4677-9628-6 eb pdf 1 Snowy owl Behavior Juvenile literature 2 Snowy owl Life cycles Juvenile literature 3 Snowy owl Juvenile literature I Title II Series Hirsch Rebecca E Comparing animal traits Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-1-4677-9506-7 lb alk paper ISBN 978-1-4677-9627-9 pb alk paper QL696 S83H565 2016 598 9'7 dc23 Manufactured in the United States of America 1 BP 12 31 15 2015014863

Snowy Owls: Stealthy Hunting Birds — page 2 — OF CONTENTS 4 ion Introduct TABLE MEET THE SNOWY OWL WHAT DO SNOWY OWLS LOOK LIKE Chapter 1 WHERE DO SNOWY OWLS LIVE HUNTING WITH SNOWY OWLS THE LIFE CYCLE OF SNOWY OWLS Chapter 2 Chapter 4 Chapter 3 6 12 18 24 30 31 32 32 32 Chart t Trai iography ion Informat Snowy Owl Glossary Selected Bibl Further Index

Snowy Owls: Stealthy Hunting Birds — page 3 — INTRODUCTION MEET THE SNOWY OWL A female snowy owl sits on a nest on the ground Hungry owlets snuggle in her thick feathers A snow-white male lands with a lemming in its beak The female tears the lemming into bite-sized pieces and feeds them to her young Snowy owls belong to a group of animals called birds Other animal groups you may know are insects fish amphibians reptiles and mammals The feathers of male snowy owls grow whiter as they age 4

Snowy Owls: Stealthy Hunting Birds — page 4 — All birds share certain traits They all have feathers and a beak They are all warm-blooded and lay hard-shelled eggs They are also vertebrates animals with backbones Snowy owls share these traits They also have traits that set them apart from other birds 5

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