5/9/2023 0 Comments Owls of eastern ice![]() ![]() 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. 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. Slaght Down the River THE TEAM had been working out of Agzu for nearly two weeks, both while waiting for my helicopter to arrive and then in my company. ![]() “This disheveled mass of wood-chip brown regarded us warily with electric-yellow eyes. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl Jonathan C. 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. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Spain. 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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