What makes the sighting even more perplexing, Cass Talbott explained, is that another blue rock thrush was spotted a few days later on the Farallon Islands off California. No one knows if this ...

Intriguingly, a blue rock thrush was also spotted on the Farallon Islands off California on Thursday. (And on Friday, after Sanchez’ photos had sent the local birding world atwitter, a person ...

One, a blue rock thrush, had probably made its way from ... are a first point of landing from the ocean before they reach the California coast. “The Farallons have an extremely long history ...

California, photographed what may be a blue rock thrush. It’s unknown if that bird, spotted around 500 miles from Hug Point, is the same one photographed by Sanchez. "Most songbirds migrate ...

The bird Sanchez photographed was subsequently identified as a Blue Rock Thrush (Monticola solitarius), a species typically ...

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 ...

There was an alleged sighting of the Blue Rock Thrush in North America in British Columbia, Canada, in 1997, but ornithological experts and members of the birding community were unable to verify ...

When I got home, I saw beautiful colors,” recalled Sanchez. Photos of the bird — a blue rock thrush — are believed to be the first time it’s been spotted in North America, so when Sanchez ...

A rare bird sighting on the Oregon Coast has bird watchers aflutter. The sighting was made by Vancouver resident and amateur photographer Michael Sanchez during a visit to Hug Point Falls.

Sponsor Message It wasn't until he posted his pictures to Facebook that he learned his bird sighting was extremely rare: a blue rock-thrush, far from its native breeding habitat in parts of Europe ...