Thunderbird

Grab your bags we will be flying to find the giant bird "The Thunderbird".


The thunderbird is a large bird-like mythological creature common to Indigenous peoples of North America, either a singular entity or a species. Because of the numerous sightings that have occurred for centuries throughout North America, the creature is also classified as a cryptid.

The thunderbird's name comes from that common supposition that the beating of its enormous wings causes thunder and stirs the wind.

The thunderbird is described as having a 15 to 20 feet wingspan and four to eight feet height when standing on the ground. In masks, it is depicted as many-colored, with two curling horns, and sometimes with teeth within its beak. It is intelligent, powerful, and wrathful. All agree that one should go out of one's way to keep from getting thunderbirds angry.

----SIGHTINGS----
A famous Thunderbird encounter took place in 1890, in Arizona. The story say that two cowboys saw a giant flying bird, shot and killed it with their rifles, then carried its spectacular carcass into town. A report in the April 26, 1890 Tombstone Epigraph listed the creature's wingspan as an alarming 160 feet, and noted that the bird was about 92 feet long, about 50 inches around at the middle, and had a head about eight feet long. The beast was said to have no feathers, but a smooth skin and wingflaps "composed of a thick and nearly transparent membrane... easily penetrated by a bullet." Its face resembled an alligator.