Comments on: Update: Kerala Thunderbird Photo

By: Crypto_Kid

Crypto_Kid — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:59:56 +0000

Look at it, if it is not a kite then it is a Thunderbird.

also look at its head, it does not look like a volture.

By: Duffguy

Duffguy — Fri, 18 May 2007 23:17:55 +0000

The birds do look close but I don’t think its the same bird or species, but the pic that’s thought of as a “Thunder Bird” has something near where its head should be, I’m thinking it’s either the bird’s head or it has something in its mouth. Most birds that I have seen try to carry their prey with their talons, sometimes you’ll see prey in their mouth but eventually they’ll land and try and drop it pick it up with the talons and carry it back to the nest, and if the object I see is it’s head well, thats a strange shape for a head. Then again, I’m no expert or anything, that’s what I see, and please tell me what you think even if it proves me to be wrong.

By: peterbernard

peterbernard — Tue, 15 May 2007 20:22:43 +0000

ha ha it’s a very nice kite.

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Tue, 15 May 2007 03:33:14 +0000

Again, the biggest problem with Th-Bird stuff is most of the time you are looking up into the sky where there are very few reference points and it’s hard to relay scale and hard for the eyes to realistically get an idea of just how big something is in the air…you would practically need a known plane, helicopter, kite, etc. in the frame (if you’re taking video or picture) or eyesight to get a conclusive idea of just how big something is…and even then the bird and other object would have to be relatively close to one another to get a reasonable idea of size…

in the end I guess I am saying…I have always been intrigued and fascinated on the Th-Bird front, but that is one arena that unless we get a REAL flawless shot, it’s going to almost impossible to pin something down.

Okay, that’s my two cents and a nickel…

By: jodzilla

jodzilla — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:19:54 +0000

I really want to believe in Thunderbirds, but I just can’t be convinced. There is nothing in these photos that proves anything to me. I don’t see anything extraordinary about these pictures. When a Thunderbird poops on my windshield I may change my mind.

By: UKCryptid

UKCryptid — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:52 +0000

Yup, my point exactly (last topic of this matter).

By: DWA

DWA — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:42:50 +0000

Not thinking we have Rodan here, but Richard888 thinks what I thought when I saw the kite photos: the kite doesn’t seem to have the requisite wingspan.

Then we have elsanto here, who sees them daily. If they look like what he’s seen, I may have to bow to experience.

By: elsanto

elsanto — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:30:32 +0000

It’s funny, I was reflecting on someone’s comment on the original photo about the shape of the wings, when I happened to look up at a kite (they’re quite common here in the south of Japan, and I see several in a day). Sure enough it resembled the subjects in the photo and I was going to post something to that effect, but it seems that I was beaten by the clever person who did this comparison.

Just my two cents.

By: Richard888

Richard888 — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:20:51 +0000

Two anomalies on the Kerala thunderbird photo make the black kite explanation unlikely, IMHO.

Each wing has two knots (widening points) as opposed to one as is typical for birds of pray and other gliders.

Each wing seems to be 3X+ the length of the body as opposed to 2X for a black kite.

This link to European Raptor Photographs has many pictures of raptors in flight. Only the spanish imperial eagle has the 3X wing-to-body length ratio.

By: joppa

joppa — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:46:33 +0000

I don’t see a giant crypto-bird. If not a kite, then a average sized vulture.