The Bennu bird was a cryptid reported from Egypt, a giant heron which was used to represent the ancient Egyptian deity Bennu. It is sometimes thought to have been the giant or Bennu heron (Ardea bennuides), which is thought to have gone extinct around 1800 B.C..[1] However, there is some evidence that such an animal may have existed in Egypt up until the early 19th Century.[2][3] The Bennu bird was depicted in Ancient Egyptian art as an enormous heron taller than a man, with a pair of plumed fea