They feast on salmon and thrive in the inhospitable wilderness of northeast Asia, primarily in Russia but also Japan and China. Like Amur tigers (also known as Siberian tigers), Blakiston’s fish owls are top predators. In “ Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owls,” Slaght transports readers to the remote wilds of Primorye to join him on his quest to study one of the world’s least-known owls.
Slaght (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 356 pages). At the heart of Slaght's story are the fish owls themselves: cunning hunters, devoted parents, singers of eerie duets, and survivors in a harsh and shrinking habitat.BOOK REVIEW - “Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl” by Jonathan C. This quest sends them on all-night monitoring missions in freezing tents, mad dashes across thawing rivers, and free-climbs up rotting trees to check nests for precious eggs. And so, as Slaght and his devoted team set out to locate the owls, they aim to craft a conservation plan that helps ensure the species' survival. They are easiest to find in winter, when their tracks mark the snowy banks of the rivers where they feed. Despite a wingspan of six feet and a height of over two feet, the Blakiston's fish owl is highly elusive. That first sighting set his calling as a scientist. Soon he was on a five-year journey, searching for this enormous, enigmatic creature in the lush, remote forests of eastern Russia. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers.
Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C.
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