![]() ![]() ![]() They include fishermen, hunters, and several amusing eccentrics, such as a man who sleeps in a wooden pyramid for its positive energy, and another man pursuing revenge against the owls after losing a testicle to an immature owl whilst crouching in the woods to defecate. Perhaps the best news of all is that conserving the owls also protects essential habitat for other endangered species, such as the Amur (“Siberian”) tiger, the world’s biggest big cat.Īs fascinating as the owls are, the local people that Dr Slaght encounters are equally interesting. Russian ornithologist, Sergey Surmach, and his team of woodsmen and staff were enormously helpful to Dr Slaght, acting as both teachers and guides, particularly during the search for viable populations, then improvise traps to the capture the owls so they can GPS tag them for the telemetry study.Īs we follow Dr Slaght’s story, we learn more about these owls how bonded pairs sing duets, how pairs need huge old-growth trees to nest in, how these birds are devoted parents, and how they can catch fish in rivers in the middle of the harshest winters. In this book, we accompany Slaght as a PhD student at the University of Minnesota, where he plans his research with the ultimate goal of designing a conservation plan to protect these enigmatic owls. Owl art based on illustration by Rachel Ivanyi. Owl art based on illustration by Rachel Ivanyi.) Cover design: Alex Merto based on original design by Eva Gabrielsen. (Cover design: Alex Merto based on original. Owls of the Eastern Ice, paperback cover, Picador, 2020. ![]()
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