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.
Bulgarian Government Agency Kills 100 Birds, Inclu...
- Rare wetland bird spotted for first time in Mumbai...
- Rare kiwi under care of Wildlife Hospital
- These tropical hummingbirds make cricket-like soun...
- Impact of fishing fleets on the most threatened ma...
- Previously unknown 'supercolony' of Adélie penguin...
- Two become one: two raven lineages merge in 'speci...
- Maize fields entice geese to winter in Denmark
- Flightless bird extinct for more than 700 years ca...
- Brains of songbirds are tuned into love
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