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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If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mongabay interviewed Jonathan Slaght, a biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, who recently published an annotated translation of the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Blakiston’s fish owl is the world’s largest owl, ranging from the eastern woodlands of Hokkaido, Japan, to the Primorye territory in the south ...

In 1995, when Jonathan Slaght was nineteen years old, he travelled with his father, a U.S. diplomat based in Moscow, to the Russian Far East. As their plane approached the port city of Vladivostok, ...

The bird above with piercing yellow eyes is a Blakiston’s fish owl. It’s the largest owl species in the world, crashing through branches as it flies, nesting in massive and ancient trees. It is also ...

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, ...

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 ...