It does look a bit unusual.

But birds are from the Reptile or Dinosaur family anyhow, they lay eggs think about it.

Could just be a genetic mutation or a throwback as such, look at people born with webbed feet from the frog DNA in us and such like.

But interesting if it is a new type of species indeed.

Kind Regards,

Elf.

mischeviouself is right, evidence suggests that birds evolved from the Theropod family of dinosaurs which included Velociraptors and Tyrannosaurs so it may not be a massive leap to believe that some kind mutation is at play here although I'm not sure how likely that is.

Maybe its a new species (new to us) which never fully evolved into a bird but stayed at a halfway point between Reptiles and Birds.

That is cool, it is alive which makes it all the better.

Usually these kind of things they show something dead and mutilated and try to claim it is something new and exciting.

That it really weird but cool none the less. Maybe an adaptation or something.

Cool none the less.

Its too bad that they are keeping the bird instead of letting it go, and seeing if more birds like that show up.

More than likely that bird will die alone in a cage because some scientists will want to examin it, and they won't be able to examin it internally until it is dead. So, more than likely they will keep it as a feak show to make some money and the bird will die without propagating more of its kind.

It is weird bird that's for sure. The wing shape is that of a bird of prey.

Could simply be a rare kind of hawk.

My feeling is that part of this is hoaxed. The mouth is white as if it's dead, compared to the other hawks. I think we need more examples. The mouth seems way too big to be the same bird. edit back...it still reminds me of a snakes mouth. Too bad the video isn't clearer. (typical)

It does for some reason remind me of a dragon. To say the bird in the cage is the same bird with it's mouth open seems unlikely. As I said: the mouth seems too pale. Where's animal planet on this one?


Edit: Some later posts do show a really strange bird with a head out of proportion to the wings and body. I'm also wondering if this bird was brought to this country from someplace else and let go.


[edit on 21-2-2009 by aleon1018]

Turtle birds for sure MAybe even >>> .