Photos of the ultra-rare blue rock thrush sighting captured at Hug Point on April 21, 2024. (Michael Sanchez) “I noticed the bird wasn’t black at all, but it was a pretty blue and chestnut ...
Michael Sanchez took photos of a bird at Hug Point that may be first official images in North America of the rare blue rock-thrush Michael Sanchez was setting up his new camera to capture a ...
If the photos that Michael Sanchez, 41, a band teacher from Vancouver, Washington, took are completely verified, the amateur photographer will have captured the first-ever sighting of the Blue ...
Turns out I got a bit more bird for my buck.” Sanchez didn’t know it at the time, but he’d photographed an extremely rare visitor: a blue rock thrush, among the first ever seen in North ...
The bird, which is widely believed to be a blue rock thrush, is a native of Europe and Asia that has rarely – if ever – been spotted in North America. "I didn't know it was rare but I had ...
Michael Sanchez's photos of what appears to be a rare blue rock thrush recently has made him the envy of the birding world. It's the kind of discovery most avid birders wait their whole lives to ...