In Search of the Inflatable Hedgehog

I recently posted a commentary on BirdForum's Ivory-billed Woodpecker thread, and received this in response:

It would be interesting to know what makes you someone "looking for Ivory-bills" while others are "cryptozoology types who are as likely to spend their spare time hunting for bigfoot."

In answer to this astoundingly obtuse question, I'm a birder. I spend a wee part of my time (much less than I would like) looking for real actual existing birds, not mythological birds or hypothetical primates. But maybe my interest in the Ivory-billed Woodpecker does put me in the crypto camp. To get some idea of what cryptozoology is all about, check out this site.

Note that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker does have a place in the cryptid menagerie...right behind the elusive Inflatable Hedgehog.

Sightings have been reported and I'm off to the Gobi Desert to begin the search. A creature that can inflate to the size of a yurt shouldn't be that hard to find.