• Tanaka Hiroshi

    Born in Higashikawa, Hokkaidō in 1949. Employed by the Asahikawa City government in 1970, Tanaka began photographing Hokkaidō’s wilderness and wildlife on his days off, and spotted his first shimafukurō (Blakiston’s fish owl) in 1990. The following year he started to study this elusive owl in earnest. He has continued his observations since retiring in 2006, and has published the photo collection Shimafukurō no koe ga kikoeru (I Can Hear the Call of the Shimafukurō).

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    Oct 2, 2017