Terror Bird (1641-1922, Argentina & Chile)

The Aónikenk people of Argentina and Chile have a legend that talks about an evil spirit of the cold by the name of 'Kelenken', which is described as a giant black bird of prey. A Chilean Jesuit priest known as Alonso de Ovalle produced a map that has been dated to 1641 - and it depicts animals such as llamas and rheas with an accurate scale, but also shows something resembling an enormous raptor standing on a steppe. This bizarre image (shown above) resembles an extinct bird of the higher classification Phorusrhacoidea. These animals were flightless predators that could reach 9.8ft tall in some cases.
Interestingly, a Professor F. B. Loomis released an article in the New York Times in 1922 discussing cryptozoological occurences in Patagonia - mostly living plesiosaurs - but also noted that several local cowboys 'sometimes talk of great wingless birds'. He attributed this to their drunken hallucinations, but how could these mainly illiterate men have known about the history of terror birds in the region if not from personal experience?
If these bizarre events are the sum of something more than coincidence, then they could serve to provide evidence that the terror birds may have still roamed Patagonia until roughly 100 years ago.

Sources: http://patagoniamonsters.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/flying-creatures-strange-birds-part-3.html and https://www.nytimes.com/1922/03/11/archives/seeing-things-in-patagonia.html

Copiapó Pterosaur (March 17th 1868, Copiapó, Chile)

When the day’s work in the mine was over and all the workers were gathered together waiting for their dinner, we saw arrive through the air on the side of the mine known as “La Ternera” an enormous bird that at first we took for the clouds that a that moment were covering a part of the atmosphere, supposing that it had been separated from other clouds by a chance gust of wind as the object in question approached, causing us great surprise, we could see it was an unknown flying object. It was moving from the northeast to the southeast and its flight was fast and in a very straight line. It passed over just above our heads and we could see the strange structure of its body. Its great wings were covered in brownish feathers, the head of the monster looked like that of a lobster and its eyes open wide and bright like embers, and it seemed to be covered in something resembling thick hair, like a sow. Its body was long like a snake’s and only bright scales could be seen on it, which sounded like metallic pieces when the strange animal moved them. Surprise soon became panic amongst the workers before such a strange phenomenon. Some claim they detected a terrible smell in those moments, a smell similar to arsenic when it is burnt. Others say their senses were not so injured in such an odd manner. The superstitious believe it was the devil himself who they saw pass over, while others remember having witnessed in that city, years ago, the passing of a similar monstrous bird.
Source: 'Return to Magonia' by Chris Aubeck
Image Credit: https://www.kryptozoologia.pl/zywe-pterodaktyle,556,24,artykul.html