Schaller, Wildlife Conservation Society 'A fascinating account of one mans quest to conserve the magnificent fish owl of Eastern Asia, this is a book that feels both urgent and relevant.'. Backlit by the hazy gray of a winter sky, it seemed almost too big and too comical to be a real bird, as if someone had hastily glued fistfuls of feathers to a yearling bear, then propped the dazed beast in the tree. Owls of the Eastern Ice is a superb narrative devoted to the natural history and conservation of a rare and beautiful species.' -George B. It was clearly an owl, but bigger than any I’d seen, about the size of an eagle but fluffier and more portly, with enormous ear tufts. We were uncertain at first which bird, actually, we’d come across. “This disheveled mass of wood-chip brown regarded us warily with electric-yellow eyes. On a hike in 2000, when he was stationed with the Peace Corps in Russia’s Far East, he “unexpectedly flushed an enormous and panicked bird.” His description of the eventual object of his obsession alerts us that this is no ordinary owl, and Mr. Jonathan Slaght’s first encounter with Blakiston’s fish owl, the rare salmon-eating raptor that would become the focus of his doctoral thesis and this book, was accidental. Jonathan Slaght with a Blakiston’s fish owl.
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