My Vancouver Island birding acquaintance, nature photographer Dave Kemp has passed along a recent photo which he took of a Rock Sparrow (Petronia petronia) on Vancouver Island. This bird is normally found in a very long but narrow stretch of Europe and Asia, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. How on earth this bird got to Vancouver Island is subject to great speculation, but I suppose it is within the possibility that it crossed the Atlantic in a westerly direction to North America , or perhasps it crossed the Pacific in an easterly direction, to North America. Whatever direction, it must have been an extraordinary crossing. Great sighting Dave!
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BarrytheBirder
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