Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.
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One of my bird field guides calls the nightjar family by a very strange name.
It calls them "goatsuckers," so maybe they are the real chupacabras. I have no idea how they got that particular name.
We have night hawks and whoop-poor-wills. The latter of which make a sound that says exactly like "whip-poor-will." Well, it sounds like that at a distant. When one lands in a tree beside your house and starts firing up, it sounds like the worst police siren you've ever heard!
This species in a lot of trouble. Its numbers have sharply decreased in recent years. And we really don't know why.
Interestingly, one the nightjars of the Pacific Coast actually hibernates, going into torpor for up to several weeks at a time.
I just noticed that the post had the scientific name for their order, and if my high school Latin is any good, it literally is derived from the words that mean "goat sucker."
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