Thunderbird - Andrew - Fifth Hour

The Thunderbird is a large vulture like bird, as large as a small plane. This bird can snatch up a horse or any thing smaller. It can create storms by flying, making rain and thunder appear when it flaps its wings, and creating lightning when it blinks its eyes.

The Comanche tribe call it ba'a' and the Potawatomi use the name chequah, but most people know of this mystery animal as Thunderbird. They believe that when the thunderbird fly’s it creates thunder storms. Some people believe that they have seen these giant birds and been picked up by them. On one account a boy in Lawndale, Illinois was with his three friends at 9:00 pm when they boys two large birds in the sky, then the birds started coming after them. One of the boys was picked up and taken about 30 yards and then dropped, he had no real physical damage but there was some psychological damage.

There are some accounts telling that people were abducted by these creatures such as the one above and one in Tombstone Arizona. The story says that two cowboys saw a huge bird, waited for it to land and opened fire on it, killed it and took a large piece of its wing cut off and brought it to Tombstone.

I believe that this creature could exist because of the fact that most animals grow depending on the size of the area they live in. Just look at the giant squid, its grown so big because of the size of the ocean. The Thunderbird could exist because it lives in the sky. I don’t believe that it creates lightning and thunder by its movements, but the size of this bird is possible.

Reference List

Figure 1 Thunderbird Date retrieved 4/7/09 http://www.cryptozoology.com/cryptids/images/thunderbird04.jpg
Thunderbird Date Retrieved 4/8/09 http://www.cryptozoology.com/cryptids/thunderbird.php
The Thunderbird Creature of Arizona Date Retrieved 4/8/09 http://www.burlingtonnews.net/thunderbird.html