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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.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Wednesday, July 07, 2010

AUBREY MENEZES: Kestrel update

Hello once again Jon.

Here is an update on the baby kestrels. After doing a Google search I found that indeed my three little babies are indeed American kestrels, also called sparrow hawks. Two have since flown off and I witnessed the last one flying off after he spent part of the afternoon with me.

He/she was absolutely beautiful and it made me feel so proud watching it take to the sky then land on the roof of our company and jostle with its two other siblings. The last few weeks I acted as kind of a guardian of sorts watching over the three babies so no one at my work would harm them. We have over 4,000 employees and people's kindness could kill them: one day I witnessed an older gentleman offering a baby a chuck of polish sausage. Another person was offering a baby a piece of apple. These were all acts of kindness but are not the preferred foods for baby kestrels.
The three babies are all gone now and this moment in my life will always be remembered. It is hard work caring for small creatures so I can't even imagine how hard it is for your dedicated team at the CFZ to look after all the animals that you do. Keep up the good work, my friend.

P.S. Corrina, I just love the `watcher of the skies`. You're wonderful.

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