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Promising. Now, how to get to possible locations? It's believed a thunderbird once destroyed a jet liner (people said it was a flock of geese, but since when do geese leave claw marks?), so aircraft are obviously out.

There's really only one way I can think of, a VERY experience climber, even them, native myths say that a Thunderbird will cause Rockslides down hill if anyone dares approach its nest. From this, and the Jetliner, Thunderbirds are obviously territoral and know how to protect their nests.

Makes sense. They've gotta be top predators, so logic dictates they have a very low rate of reproduction. It's possible a pair would only raise two chicks to adulthood in a lifetime. So naturally, they'd have to guard their young well. Heck, even some birds with more chicks than they know what to do with will kill you if you get near their nests.

Very true. Young probably learn to fly and hunt pretty young, most predatory animals learn to hunt early in life, espcially ones with low birth rates, to ensure survival. If I could find the prepose migration patterns for them, I could probably discuss it better but considering there is also a car by the same name, its hard to find.

Try putting cryptid into the search too. The more specific your search, the better the chances of finding what you want.

I did, nothing importent to what I wanted came up except the sightings indicate a regular migration pattern but apparently no one has bothered to put it on the internet. Anyway, we do know they migrate, which means they're even more difficult to find as you need to know first if a pair nest at the same place every year or move nests yearly and then know when their mating season is, even hard to due considering no one has evidently seen a baby Thunderbird to determine, though comparing that to modern Condors considering Condors are realated to the Teratorns.

Let me see. I remember seeing a map on TV once that showed a route across the bottom edge of the continental US, then up the east coast. You might also try looking up storm maps, because the researchers suggest they follow the storms. You could also try looking up as many sightings as you can (library, anyone?) and marking them on a map. Worth a shot.

True though I remember the show I saw also said they were sighted in the west coast mountian ranges as well, which if you think about it, a circlualar path would lead along that one. There, in my mind, are two things preventing proof of theses birds being found, one is their territoral nature, some wittnesses might not live long enough to tell or be too terrfied to be accountable for the sighting, and two, as mentioned most Cryptozoologists have to fund themselves so its hard to mount an expidition even if you pic the right season for the mountain with a realiable guide willing to take you up, ether because they don't believe in it and don't want to take a risk chasing a 'myth' or they don't want to be ridiculaled by others for assisting in it.

Very true.
Of course if the mountains in question were really marked as "unclimbable," (sp?) then an effort to climb it might recieve a little more respect from the sports fanatic crowd. That solves one problem, leaving only the birds themselves. Of course, that's basically saying, "The only difficulty once you find a good cover story is getting to the birds' nesting area without being seen and stopped." Perhaps it would work better to go when one is fairly sure they won't be around, and look for evidence of their presence - say, eggsheels, nests, or even loose feathers big enough that they couldn't be from more normal birds.

True but we also don't know the habits of theses birds, some migratory birds destroy their nests once they move on to prevent predators from locating the nesting ground. Then there is also the winds blowing the evidence away and into the forests below where its far more difficult to find.

I thought of that, but it's better than no idea at all. Besides, a nest big enough for those birds must take a lot of work to build, so I doubt they'd destroy it. What could prey on a bird that size anyway, a dragon?

Well its not themselves they'd worry about, it's their eggs, if they have a low reproduction rate, they'd not take any chances when it came to their young. The winds is probably the most likely thing that could destroy the evidence. Theses are one of the most elecsive Cryptids due to their behavior, Thunderstorms aren't something most people are out in and theses are dark colored birds so they'd be hard to spot during the storms.

That's possible, although a minimal risk if at least one parent is around while the eggs are there. And they'd probably make their nests fairly duarble, or the wind might destroy them while they were still using them.

Can we do another "cryptid"?

This animal isn't really a cryptid but there are many rumors about it still being alive today. The creature was a prehistoric shark called Megalodon. While I would explain it more here this article is much easierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon. And, I know for a fact it's reliable because I myself have contributed to it and many other shark articles on wikipedia.


My own megalodon tooth looks a lot like the one in the picture(it's almost identical).

Anyway, I believe that there is a possibility for this shark to still exist today. The oceans are very vast and prey is everywhere for an animal that's the biggest carnivorous fish to ever exist.

What do y'all think?

Ok, I was meaning after the Thunderbirds were done using them the nests would rot and be blown away.

Yes, we can change Cryptids, and MEgalodon does count as a Cryptid. A common theory on this is MEgalodon went into the deep trenches to survive during the Ice Age and fed in the deep water envirnment, which has a very large echosystem, most of which we still don't know. Some people think below the Philopine Plate is an underwater ocean that's basically a 'ocean that time forgot' where prehistoric marine life still live, with there being air pockets possible to suport air breathers.