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A photography enthusiast from Vancouver, Washington, went out during the day to take pictures with his new camera at Hug Point in Oregon, and captured something so unique that it made headlines all over and eventually made him a star.
Michael Sanchez took several photos of the bird jumping nearby. Everything was normal until he started shaking and some of it was unnoticeable.
A middle school brand director had no idea he had photographed a native East Asian bird that had only been found in North America in 1997, and the photo made him a star a week later.
This bird is a rare blue rock thrush whose sighting was denied by the American Birding Association at the time.
“I was very surprised to see how unsettling this was for people. It was just amazing,” Sanchez said.
Although Sánchez had never considered herself a birder, she was surprised to see a cute bird she had never seen before.
“So you thought you should post it on social media, right?” He was then contacted by someone with knowledge about birds.
It was identified as a male blue rock thrush due to its distinctive blue and chestnut plumage.
Brodie Cass Talbott of the Oregon Bird Coalition and Oregon Birding Association: “There's a lot of effort in the birding community to check it out because when something like this happens, everyone wants to go and see it for themselves.”
According to guardian, another blue rock thrush sighting in four days in the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco. It was seen once in January as well.
Since sightings are so rare, experts have set to work verifying photos and locations.
It is not yet known how the bird got here.