Download PDF Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl Writen By Jonathan C. Slaght
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
By : Jonathan C. Slaght
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Book Synopsis :
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia.I saw my first Blakiston?s fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia . . . No scientist had seen a Blakiston?s fish owl so far south in a hundred years . . . When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Soon he was on a five-year journey, searching for this enormous, enigmatic creature in the lush, remote forests of eastern Russia. That first sighting set his calling as a scientist.Despite a wingspan of six feet and a height of over two feet, the Blakiston?s fish owl is highly elusive. They are easiest to find in winter, when their tracks mark the snowy banks of the
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Author : Jonathan C. Slaght
Pages : 368 pages
Publisher : Picador
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ISBN-10 : 125079871X
ISBN-13 : 9781250798718
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