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Big Bird in Alaska
Arthur Stamoulis
 Residents
of the Togiak and Manokotak Villages in Alaska have reported seeing
an enormous bird with a wingspan of up to 14 feet.
It was first spotted in early October by Moses Coupchiak, a heavy
equipment operator who was working outside at the time. “At
first I thought it was one of those old-time Otter planes,”
he said. “It banked to the left, and that’s when I noticed
it wasn’t a plane.”
After the bird disappeared, Coupchiak radioed the next village over
to warn parents to keep their children in-doors.
Days later the “eagle-like” bird was spotted by pilot
John Bouker and his passengers as they flew into Manokotak.
“The people in the plane all saw him,” Bouker stated.
“He’s huge. He’s huge. He’s really, really
big.”
Both Coupchiak and Bouker have described the bird as larger than a
small plane.
Scientists in the region have little doubt that people have seen a
large bird, but are skeptical that the bird sited is really as large
as witnesses claim. Some have suggested that the bird may be a Steller’s
sea eagle, which can have a wingspan of up to 8 feet and which has
occasionally taken up home in Alaska in the past.
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