Other Flying · Ātiu or Middle Island, Waikato · 1863
NEW-1863ID case-067cd816ecAdded to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- 1863to the year
- Where
- Ātiu or Middle Island, Waikatoto approximate level
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
A party of miners in 1863 saw an enormous bird fascinated by their campfire before it stalked away.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Ātiu or Middle Island, Waikato, New Zealand / Aotearoa
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 1863
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-067cd816ec
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 5 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 7 of The clipper (Lander, Fremont County, Wyo.), March 5, 1897
Newspaper · 1897-03-05
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.