Might You Have a 'Snowy Owl Counting Problem'?

摘要

Noah Strycker's 2014 book The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human, offers some quite-astonishing insights about the world of birds, and what scientists are learning about the avian world. I was particularly intrigued to read a whole section on snowy owls, and specifically on how a kind of urban legend, as it were, about snowy owls, has turned out to be pretty much baseless.