Michael Sanchez had traveled from Vancouver, Washington to northwest Oregon last week to take photographs of waterfalls – not birds. An amateur photographer, Sanchez, 41, figured the scenic ...

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 ...

Amateur photographer Michael Sanchez captured photos of the blue-and-chestnut bird on a beach—but he didn’t realize just how special the “mind-bending” encounter was, until later Sarah ...

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Michael Sanchez took photos of a bird at Hug Point that may be first official images in North America of the rare blue ...

The blue rock thrush, spotted near Cannon Beach in late April, is believed to be first sighting ever in North America.

They were featured on ABC’s "World News Tonight" with a feel-good story about a rare-bird sighting on the Oregon Coast! Michael Sanchez, Band director at Camas Skyridge Middle School and the man ...

I could never imagine finding one of my favorite poems, “The Bluebird”, written by Charles Bukowski, in physical form, but ...