Slaght describes a charismatic bird in peril from human influence. His race against the Primorye region’s melting ice and burgeoning logging industry acts as a universal symbol for the attempts to ...

The story of one biologist’s obsessive four-year search through the most unforgiving of habitats in Russia’s far eastern reaches to find and study the world’s largest owl Blakiston’s fish owl, or more ...

Jonathan Slaght has dedicated his professional life to safeguarding the rare Blakiston’s fish owl, the world’s biggest owl. But he wouldn’t have it any other way It’s not easy studying an endangered ...

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When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Tucker Malarkey OWLS OF THE EASTERN ICE A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl By ...

Jonathan C. Slaght had seen just one rare Blakiston’s fish owl in his life — and that one completely by chance — before rashly deciding that he would spend five years studying the elusive bird. In ...

The WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) announced today that Dr. Jonathan Slaght will be honored for his work in Russia to conserve the Blakiston's fish owl, an endangered species and the largest owl ...

Drinking ethanol and saving the world ... an old-school, tautly strung adventure in pursuit of the largest species of owl Jonathan Slaght has the best author photograph I’ve ever seen. Pale, bearded, ...