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Owl Sense by Miriam Darlington

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

 Owl Sense recounts the author’s quest to see all of Europe’s native owl species. The chapters, one per species, are full of scientific facts about the species, plus details of her quest to find it and the people who helped her on her way. The blurb led me to believe that the book would also focus on her son’s illness. While that certainly features it is not a major part of the book at all. This suited me but readers looking forward to that aspect will probably feel short-changed. The book is very readable but I had some reservations about the tone in places and felt there was too much extraneous material. My own best birding experiences involve a certain sense of wonder and awe, an almost magical feeling . When I read bird books that capture that feeling it inspires me to get out birding . Sadly I didn’t often find that magical sense captured in this book. 
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