Blakiston’s fish owl in the Norsky nature reserve

The article is devoted to the Blakiston’s fish owl (Ketupa blakistoni), the largest owl on the planet, whose numbers are at a critical level. The mainland subspecies lives exclusively on the territory of the Russian Federation. The island subspecies lives on the Kuril Islands and the island of Hokkaido. In the Amur Region, a small population of this species has been preserved, which exists on the territory and in the vicinity of the Norsky Reserve, located between the rivers Selemdzha and Nora, in the Amur Region in the Far East of Russia.