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 ...

Slaght describes a charismatic bird in peril from human influence. His race against the Primorye region’s melting ice and burgeoning logging industry acts as a universal symbol for the attempts to ...

The WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) announced today that Dr. Jonathan Slaght will be honored for his work in Russia to conserve the Blakiston's fish owl, an endangered species and the largest owl ...

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Like many an epic Russian tale, “Tigers Between Empires” fittingly opens with a cast of characters, some with two legs, but most with four. Minneapolis writer Jonathan C. Slaght’s book is a deep look ...

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 ...