![]() ![]() That first sighting set his calling as a scientist.ĭespite a wingspan of six feet and a height of over two feet, the Blakiston’s fish owl is highly elusive. Soon he was on a five-year journey, searching for this enormous, enigmatic creature in the lush, remote forests of eastern Russia. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. No scientist had seen a Blakiston’s fish owl so far south in a hundred years. 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. Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk, in Kirkus ![]() ![]() Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you.” "A terrifically exciting account of time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston’s fish owls, huge, shaggy-feathered, yellow-eyed, and elusive birds that hunt fish by wading in icy water. Winner of the Peace Corps Worldwide Special Book AwardĪ Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The BirdBooker Report, Geographical, Open Letter Reviewīest Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London) Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General NonfictionĪ Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award ![]()
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