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.
- Campaign launched to help identify breeding Lapwin...
- Brown Crake in Bangladesh: a century-long wait
- Tennessee hunter kills bizarre albino turkey in Ru...
- How the wild parrots of San Diego arrived in Ameri...
- Moorhens get the five star treatment with new floa...
- 2 dads, 1 mom: Bald eagles raising 3 young in rare...
- Bird rings reveal life history of seabirds
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