Michael Sanchez's photos of what appears to be a rare blue rock thrush recently has made him ... the 41-year-old middle school band director realized it was no mere black bird that he had ...

“I shot my pictures, then turned behind me, and I see this little bird,” said Sanchez, the middle school band director at ... none other than a blue rock thrush, a native of Europe and Asia ...

a band teacher from Vancouver, Washington, took are completely verified, the amateur photographer will have captured the first-ever sighting of the Blue Rock Thrush in North America. The bird ...

said Sanchez, a middle school band teacher. "They were all atwitter about this and really conveyed the message that this was something special and very unique." Blue rock thrush is among rarest in ...

Sanchez didn’t know it at the time, but he’d photographed an extremely rare visitor: a blue rock thrush, among the first ... the 41-year-old middle school band director realized his feathered ...

Sanchez, a 41-year-old middle-school band director from Vancouver ... learned his bird sighting was extremely rare: a blue rock-thrush, far from its native breeding habitat in parts of Europe ...

The wood thrush is a neotropical migratory bird that ... property to join the field research team as they capture and band wild birds. "It's an opportunity to not only go into the river gorge ...