Blakiston's Fish-owl
by Charles Bell
The Blakiston's Fish-owl lives in northern Japan and Russia. It is the world's largest owl and is classified as Endangered by IUCN I photographed this one at Rausu in Hokkaido in 2015. It came in the evening to find fish "salted" in a small pond to take to its mate upstream. The lighting was a fast-paced strobe that appeared to the eye as constant but acted like a flash. I debated about posting it here or in "Man & Nature" as it was feeding on fish placed where it could find them, but since it was a wild bird, I chose to post it here. Canon EOS 6D, Canon EF500mm f/4L IS II USM, manual exposure f/4 @ 1/80th, ISO 3200.
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