Tuesday, July 29, 2014

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES


What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?

Well, everything, actually!

In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.



BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



Children's Museum hosts Bigfoot Drop-in Day
Join us at the Children's Museum in Easton on Thursday, July 31 for Bigfoot Drop-in Day, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn about New England wildlife and 

Megan Fox Wants To Be Taken Out On a Bigfoot Expedition
Bigfoot Evidence Shawn
Did you know Megan Fox is Bigfoot believer? We just found this out too. According to People magazine, Megan Fox, during an appearence at this 

Bigfoot attack reported in Shrewsbury Twp.
Luckily, there's no need to alert a certain television show featuring excitable charlatans with night-vision goggles, because state police said the Bigfoot 

Look at These Bigfoot Tracks Found In Cotswolds, England
MysteryHistorydotTV: We do not cover many reports of Bigfoots in England but here we have an impressive set of prints. These prints were round my ...

Men say they have evidence of Bigfoot in the Bluegrass
“I want to show the world what I've seen,” exclaimed Rodney Adams, who is a part of the Northern Kentucky Bigfoot Research Group. Adams says the 

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 

There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. 

The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking.

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    Karl Shuker recalls some remarkable feline hybrids bred at the wildlife park of animal collector Carl Hagenbeck.

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    HOORAY FOR THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

    The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
     
    Sad day. Helen brought us another baby thrush - a nestling this time - that had been resued from a cat. We had high hopes for it, because it was eating and chirruping lustily. It fed a bit this morning at 7:00 but by midday it was dead. The prognosis for these poor little chaps is very poor, but one has to try. his is the third one this year, and it is heartbreaking to see them decline and die. The demise of the thrush, and Jon Driscoll's death yesterday has put a bit of a damper on my spirits.
     
    GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: MICK FARREN MEMORIAL July 27 2014
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/gonzo-track-of-day-mick-memorial-july.html
    THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_29.html
    40th Anniversary Edition of Frank Zappa's Apostrophe
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/40th-anniversary-edition-of-frank.html
    High Voltage Men: The Magic Band Plays the Music of Captain Beefheart
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/high-voltage-men-magic-band-plays-music.html
    Yes perform album classics, new songs at Hard Rocksino
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/yes-perform-album-classics-new-songs-at.html
    Yes Special - Interview with Geoff Downes and Heaven and Earth review
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/yes-special-interview-with-geoff-downes.html
     
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