Undiscovered Owls

Explore the twilight world of owls that you can hear in your garden, the park or woods with this lyrical investigation into their sounds.

This groundbreaking new book from the Sound Approach focuses on the owls of the Western Palearctic, North Africa and the Middle East. Exploring the vocal ranges of 38 different species through 327 digitally recorded sounds from some of our best-loved bird species, the accompanying CDs also contain some previously unpublished digital stereo recordings.  With beautifully written accounts, illustrations of annotated sonograms, paintings and photographs, you can learn about the owls you’ve admired for years, and others you may never have seen or heard of before.

Three years in the making, this innovative new book has seen the Sound Approach team journey from the extreme cold of northern Europe, waiting cold and hopeful for Hawk Owls, to the hot and humid mountains of the Middle East, where amazing discoveries awaited them. Share their thrill of closing in on a huge fish owl found only a handful of times before, and their travels to rugged desert mountains where they chanced upon a previously undiscovered owl - the first new Arabian bird species for nearly 80 years.