Writing Nonfiction
Reporting in Russia, China, the United States, and elsewhere
In the photograph at right, taken while I was reporting a series of articles on Russia's nature reserves (zapovedniki or заповедники), the young cranes in the left foreground, trying to untie the laces of my boots, are red-crowned cranes [grus japonicus]; the young cranes in the right background are white-naped cranes [grus vipio], also called Daurian cranes. They are members of two of the rarest species of birds on earth. The Russian field scientists at Khingan Nature Reserve where this photo was taken, in Siberia just north of the Amur River (the border with China), are breeding these cranes for release into the wild. The crow tugging on my notebook at right is not endangered. Click here to read this article in English or here to read this article in Russian.
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