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On the Trail of Fish Owls: An Interview with Jonathan C. Slaght

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Photo: Terria Clay/WCS Jonathan C. Slaght is an American wildlife biologist and author. He is one of the leading experts on Blakiston’s fish owls. His book, Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl (2020), won several awards, including the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, the …

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Owls of the Eastern Ice—The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl: Jonathan C. Slaght

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Published by Allen Lane / Ferrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2020, 348 pages “This dishevelled mass of wood-chip brown regarded us warily with electric-yellow eyes. ... 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. Backlit by the hazy …

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