 What is a Squawker anyway? A half man, bird-like creature that stands about six feet tall, whose job as it seems is to scare the local folks in small Oregon towns... Think of it as El Chupacabra or Mothman, without the goat sucking or dark under tones of either. Squawker is the name given to the creature by those very locals because of the sounds that it reportedly made. What does this have to do with Johanna and Tyler? Upscale locals in Scottsdale, Arizona have reported seeing the bird-man