ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From CFZ-USA:

• MYSTERY BOVID OF CENTRAL AFRICA
• WHAT WAS THE AWFUL?
• DOGMAN SIGHTINGS IN MICHIGAN
• COULD ALIENS LOOK HUMAN?
• DO DINOSAURS STILL EXIST?
• ARE FAIRIES PHYSICAL?
• REPTILE MEN OF IRAQ
• BIGFOOT IN DAYLIGHT
• IS THIS BIGFOOT ON VIDEO?
• DID HITLER SURVIVE?
• ELOKO - AFRICAN FOLKLORE BEING
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD (the first human cannonball, pictured above)
• DINOSAUR IN NEW GUINEA?
• REPTILIAN ALIEN IN VIETNAM
• WAS THIS A YETI?
• BIGFOOT TERRORIZES VILLAGE
• BIGFOOT IN THE DESERT
• BIGFOOT EVIDENCE IN GEORGIA
• HUGE RATS IN KENT
• BIGFOOT NEAR TROUGH
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• HISTORICAL SEA MONSTERS
• ARE FAIRIES REAL?
• BIGFOOT AND THE ELK HUNTERS
• BIGFOOT IN OHIO?
• FASTEST FLYING CREATURES
• WATER MONSTER OF GEORGIA

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.

For 10 months out of the year, common swifts live ...

Remote sensing data reveals hundreds more species ...
Golden eagle numbers close to 'historic' levels 
Birds are more like ‘feathered apes’ than ‘bird br...

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Monday/Tuesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1718 - English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. "Blackbeard") was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. British soldiers cornered him aboard his ship and killed him. He was shot and stabbed more than 25 times. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Personality tests for fish could help boost reprod...

Koalas 'under siege' from policy changes set to de...

Bat fatalities at wind farms prove unpredictable

Millions of butterflies herald insect influx in ho...

Bees use multiple cues in hunt for pollen

Leprosy revealed in red squirrels across British I...

Support from family, friends significantly reduces...

AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day.)