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.
- Two rare whio ducks arrive at Rotorua's Rainbow Sp...
- Rare Sighting: Egyptian Nightjar Bird Finds a Home...
- Rarely seen, ‘weird looking’ tropical bird comes i...
- Hundreds of birds fall out of the sky in Utah
- Amazing footage shows incredibly well-preserved 99...
- Lactation hormone cues birds to be good parents
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