Thunderbird · Oregon
OR-NDID case-fa5e80f1e8First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 21, 2026
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Oregonto state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a large black bird with a 25-30 foot wingspan flying above a hill while driving in Oregon.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- Where
- Oregon, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 21, 2026
- Case id
- case-fa5e80f1e8
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Source trail (1)
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- Thunderbird?
Reddit · 2019-04-09
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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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.