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From Russia With Birds: The World’s Biggest Owl, “Zombie” Pigeons

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Blakiston’s Fish Owl (image by Robert tdc/Wikimedia Commons) . Today’s post includes two such stories, brought all the way to you from Russia. And to learn more about Blakiston’s Fish Owl (and download a ringtone of its call!), Sometimes, on the bird news beat, you find gold at both ends of the rainbow.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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Here are some of the questions that were running through my mind as I read Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl : (a) Is ornithological research always this dangerous? (b) The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic. F to -0.4°

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