Author: jonathanslaght

• 2017 End of Year Summary

  Another good year! In total, I worked on 19 stories (down from 22 in 2016). The most important writing development of 2017, without question, was finding a home for my…

• A Spoon-Billed Curiosity

  This Spoon-billed sandpiper hatched somewhere in the Arctic of northeastern Russia, in the spring of 1988, a diminutive fluff camouflaged among the tundra vegetation. A few months later she flew…

• Steller’s Sea Eagle: King of the Air

  So large is the Steller’s sea eagle that occasionally, on a frozen bay, one of these birds can be mistaken for the hunched form of an ice fisherman. It is the…