book reviews

The Atlantic: review of Adam Weymouth’s “Lone Wolf”

11 June 2025

The Atlantic: review of Ben Goldfarb’s “Crossings”

18 September 2023

The New York Times: review of Suzanne Simard’s “Finding the Mother Tree”

03 May 2021

op-eds

The New York Times: Making Pesto? Hold the Pine Nuts.

My Op-Ed from October 19, 2015

scientific publications (recent)

Maslovsky, K.S., P.N. Maleko, V.V. Pronkevich, J.C. Slaght, and A.N. Powell. 2023. First nests of Endangered Nordmann’s Greenshank Tringa guttifer found in over 40 years indicate nesting plasticity. Bird Conservation International 33: e43. doi: 10.1017/S095927092200051X

Movin, N., T. Gamova, S.G. Surmach, J.C. Slaght, A.A. Kisleiko, J.A. Eaton, and F.E. Rheindt. 2022. Using bioacoustic tools to clarify species delimitation within the Blakiston’s Fish Owl (Bubo blakistoni) complex. Avian Research 13. doi: 10.1016/j.avrs.2022.100021

Bragina, E.V., I.V. Balan, N.V. Kuznetsova, M.P. Parilov, and J.C. Slaght. 2022. Reintroduction of parent-reared and semi-wild chicks of Red-crowned (Grus japanensis) and White-naped Cranes (Antigone vipio) in Russia: Lessons from 25 years of experience. Ornithological Science 21: 53-62. doi: 10.2326/osj.21.53

Saalfeld, S.T., L. Phillips, S.C. Brown, J.C. Slaght, E.E. Syroechkovskiy, E.G. Lappo, M. Hake, and R.B. Lanctot. 2020. In search of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea and other avian taxa in northwestern Alaska. Wader Study 127: 219-227 doi: 10.18194/ws.00208

Slaght, J.C., S.G. Surmach, and A.A. Kisleiko. Ecology and conservation of Blakiston’s fish owl in Russia. 2018. Pp. 47-70 in: Nakamura, F. [Ed]. Biodiversity Conservation Using Umbrella Species, Springer, Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-7203-1_4

 Surmach, S.G., and J.C. Slaght. 2018. Role of Russian protected areas in supporting Blakiston’s fish owl populations. Pp. 317-318 in Popovkina, A.B and S.P. Kharitonov [Eds.], First All-Russian Ornithological Congress. Conference proceedings. 29 January-04 February, 2018, Tver, Russia.

Slaght, J.C., B. Milakovsky, D. Maksimova, I. Seryodkin, V. Zaitsev, A. Panichev, and D. Miquelle. 2017. Anthropogenic influences on the distribution of a Vulnerable coniferous forest specialist: habitat selection by the Siberian musk deer Moschus moschiferus. Oryx doi: 10.1017/S0030605316001617