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 sites of ...

Call it beginner's luck. On a trip to the Oregon coast in late April, amateur photographer Michael Sanchez took his new camera out to Hug Point State Park to snap pictures of waterfalls. Sanchez, a 41 ...

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 find: ...

I’ve been reading old bird books again. There’s something nice about the old-fashioned approach, when human appreciation for birds was allowed to be front and center. Let me show you what I mean with ...

An amateur photographer captured a subject in Oregon last week that has bird lovers chirping — as it's said to be the first U.S. sighting of this particular species. Some experts are calling it the ...

An ovenbird (left) and a Swainson’s thrush (right) marked the scientists’ first catches of the morning on Aug. 4. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger Every spring, the Bicknell’s thrush, a small, brown ...

There is a quiet bird of winter that appears each year outside my door. It is solitary and discrete — no flocking sparrow or clamoring jay. This bird blends in, wrapped in russet, its cloudy breast ...

Michael Sanchez is no birder. But the 41-year-old Vancouver man has been getting into photography. So, on a trip to the coast last Sunday, he woke up before dawn and carried his new Sony camera to Hug ...

Many people wonder when looking at their garden or park: Is that a blackbird or a thrush? The surprising answer: There’s no real difference. The blackbird is a thrush. PETBOOK editor and biologist ...