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A Life With Birds

Discovering birds from around the world with Tucson based birder Chris Rohrer

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August 02, 2025

Beneath The Surface

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Intermission

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Lost in the Dark But I'll Never Be Alone

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2021 birding1
2022 birding1
2024 bird review1
A life with birds1
Abert's Squirrel1
Abert's Towhee1
Acorn Woodpecker2
Allen's Hummingbird1
Altamira Oriole1
American Black Duck1

American Crow2
American Flamingo2
American Fly Agaric1
American Goshawk1
American Pipit1
American Robin2
American Tree Sparrow3
Anhinga1
Anna's Hummingbird1
Aplomado Falcon1
Apollo Regional Community Park1
Arizona birding1
Arizona Woodpecker2
Ash-throated Flycatcher1
Atlantic Puffin1
Audubon's Oriole1
Australasian Gannet1
Australasian Magpie1
Australasian Shoveler1
Australasian Swamphen1
Autumn1
Badgerland Birding1
Baird's Sandpiper2
Bald Eagle2
Bar-tailed Lark1
Barred Antshrike1
Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary1
Bell's Vireo2
Belted Kingfisher1
Bendire's Thrasher2
Berylline Hummingbird2
Bighorn Sheep1
birding2
birding anniversary1
birding Cape Verde2
birding Mexico1
birding Panama1
birding Portugal1
birding the Salton Sea1
Black Oystercatcher1
Black Redstart1
Black Scoter1
Black Skimmer2
Black Storm-Petrel1
Black Swan2
Black Swift1
Black Turnstone1
Black Vulture2
Black--fronted Tern1
Black-and-white Warbler1
Black-bellied Whistling Duck1
Black-browed Albatross1
Black-crowned Night Heron1
Black-crowned sparrow-lark1
Black-crowned Tityra1
Black-headed Grosbeak1
Black-tailed Deer1
Black-tailed prairie dog1
Black-tailed Trogon1
Black-throated Blue Warbler3
Black-throated Gray Warbler1
Black-throated Magpie-Jay1
Black-throated Sparrow1
Black-winged Stilt1
Blackpoll Warbler1
Blue Grosbeak2
Blue Grouse1
Blue Mockingbird2
Blue-capped Manakin1
Blue-crowned Manakin1
Blue-footed Booby1
Blue-headed Vireo1
Blue-winged Warbler1
Bobcat2
Boquete1
Boreal Owl1
Botteri's Sparrow2
Brandt's Cormorant1
Brant1
Bridled Tern1
Bridled Titmouse1
Broad-billed Hummingbird2
Broad-tailed Hummingbird1
Brown Booby1
Brown Noddy1
Brown Pelican2
Brown Teal1
Brown-headed Nuthatch2
Brown-necked Raven1
Buff-throated Saltator1
Bullock's Oriole1
Burrowing Owl2
California Condor1
California Pelagic1
California Quail2
California Scrub-Jay2
California Towee1
Canada Goose1
Cannon Beach1
Cape May Warbler2
Cape Verde2
Cape Verde birding1
Cape Verde Excursions1
Cape Verde Sparrow1
Cape Verde Storm-Petrel1
Cape Verde Swift1
Caspian Tern1
Cassin's Finch1
Cassin's Sparrow1
Cedar Waxwing1
Checker-throated Stipplethroat1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee1
Chestnut-capped Brushfinch2
Chestnut-colored Longspur1
Chestnut-sided shrike-vireo1
Chief Kiawanda Rock1
Chihuahua1
Chihuahuan Meadowlark1
Chilean Flamingo1
Cinnamon Hummingbird2
Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater2
Citreoline Trogon1
Clark's Grebe2
Cliff Chipmunk1
Cliff Swallow2
Cocos Booby1
Colima Pygmy-Owl1
Collared Peccary1
Collared Towhee1
Common Black Hawk2
Common Buzzard1
Common Chaffinch1
Common Gallinule2
Common Grackle1
Common Murre1
Common Pauraque1
Common Raven1
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Cream-colored Courser2
Crested Caracara1
Crimson-backed Tanager1
Crimson-collared Grosbeak1
Crimson-crested Woodpecker1
Curve-billed Thrasher1
dame1
death1
Desert Grassland Whiptail1
Diamond Dove1
Discovery Park1
Double-banded Plover1
Dunnock1
Dusky Grouse2
Eared Quetzal1
Eastern Rosella1
Ediz Hook1
Elegant Quail1
Elegant Trogon1
Elk1
Emperor Goose1
Espargos1
Estero Llano1
Eurasian Blackbird1
Eurasian Blackcap1
European Greenfinch1
European Herring Gull1
European Serin1
Evening Grosbeak1
Everglades National Park1
Ferruginous Hawk1
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl1
Fish Crow1
Five-striped Sparrow1
Flame-colored Tanager1
Fluttering Shearwater1
Gadwall1
Gamboa1
gander1
Garganey1
Gartered Trogon1
Geoffroy's tamarin1
Glossy Ibis1
Golden Vireo1
Golden-cheeked Woodpecker1
Golden-crowned Emerald1
Golden-crowned Sparrow1
Golden-crowned Warbler1
Golden-fronted Greenlet1
gosling1
Gould's Turkey3
Grand Canyon1
Grasshopper Sparrow1
Gray Gerygone1
Gray Hawk1
Gray Warbler1
Gray-headed Kite1
Gray-headed Swamphen2
Great Blue Heron1
Great Egret1
Great Gray Owl2
Great Green Macaw1
Great Horned Owl2
Great Spotted Woodpecker1
Great-crested Grebe1
Greater Ani2
Greater hoopoe-lark1
Greater prairie chicken2
Greater Roadrunner1
Greater White-fronted Goose1
Green Cay Wetlands1
Green Honeycreeper1
Green Iguana1
Green Jay3
Green Parakeet1
Green-tailed Towhee2
Grey Teal1
Happy Wren1
Harlequin Duck2
Haystack Rock1
healing1
Henslow's Sparrow1
Hepatic Tanager2
Hermit Thrush1
Hermit Warbler1
Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth1
Hollyhock1
Hooded Crow1
Hooded Oriole1
Horned Lark1
hummingbird1
Hutton's Vireo1
Inca Dove1
Indian Peafowl1
Isthmian Wren1
Jack Snipe1
Jardin Botanico de Tizatlan1
Javelina1
Kaka1
Kapiti Island1
Kelp Gull2
Kentish Plover1
King Vulture1
La Bufa1
Lake Havesu1
Lake Roosevelt1
Lark Bunting1
Lark Sparrow1
Laughing Falcon1
Laughing Gull1
Least Grebe1
Least Sandpiper1
Lesser Elaenia1
Lesser Goldfinch1
Lesser Prairie-Chicken1
life1
life changes1
lifelist1
Lilac-crowned Parrot1
Limpkin3
Little Black Cormorant1
Little Egret1
Little Gull1
Loggerhead Shrike1
Long-billed Dowitcher1
Long-billed Thrasher1
Long-tailed Jaeger1
loss1
Louisiana Waterthrush1
Lucifer Hummingbird1
Lucy's Warbler1
Madera Chihuahua1
Magnificent Frigatebird2
Manitowoc1
Manitowoc lighthouse1
Marbled Murrelet1
Marieta Islands1
Marsh Wren1
Masked Lapwing1
Matiu/Somes Island1
McCook1
Mexican Chickadee1
Mexican Hermit1
Mexican Jay2
Mexican Woodnymph1
Mexico Birding2
Military Macaw2
Mistletoe Tyrannulet2
Monarch Butterfly1
Mottled Owl1
Mt. Rainier. Pacific Northwest Birding1
Mule Deer1
nature1
Nazca Booby1
Nebraska birding1
New Zealand Bellbird1
New Zealand Dotterel1
New Zealand Fantail2
New Zealand Fernbird1
New Zealand Fur Seal2
New Zealand Grebe1
New Zealand Pipit1
New Zealand Scaup1
North American River Otter1
North Island Kokako1
North Island Robin1
North Island Saddleback1
Northern Cardinal1
Northern House Wren1
Northern Lapwing1
Northern Pygmy-Owl1
Northern Waterthrush1
old world sparrows1
Olympic National Park1
Orange-crowned Warbler1
Orca1
Oregon birding1
Osprey2
Ovenbird1
Pacific Wren1
Pacific-slope Flycatcher1
Painted Redstart1
Pallid Meadowlark1
Pallid Swift1
Palm Tanager1
Palm Warbler1
Panama Flycatcher1
Paradise Shelduck1
Pauatahanui Wetlands1
Pearl Falcon1
Pectoral Sandpiper1
Pelagic Cormorant2
Peregrine Falcon1
Pied Cormorant2
Pied Stilt1
Pin-tailed Whydah1
Pine Flycatcher1
Pine Siskin1
Pink-footed Goose1
Plain TIger Butterfly1
Plain Xenops1
Plain-breasted Ground Dove1
Plain-capped Starthroat1
Plain-colored Tanager2
Pomarine Jaeger1
Prairie Chicken Dance Tours1
Prairie Falcon1
Pronghorn5
Pueo1
Puerto Vallarta1
Pukeko1
Purple Sabrewing1
Pygmy Nuthatch1
Pyrrhuloxia1
Quinta Mazatlan1
Raccoon1
Rancho Primavera1
Red Crossbill1
Red Rock Reserve1
Red-billed Scythebill2
Red-billed Tropicbird2
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager1
Red-crowned Parakeet2
Red-crowned Woodpecker1
Red-faced Warbler3
Red-footed Booby1
Red-headed Woodpecker1
Red-legged Honeycreeper1
Red-shouldered Hawk1
Red-tailed Hawk2
Red-throated Caracara1
Red-whiskered Bulbul2
Red-winged Blackbird1
remembering the friendship of Sydney Jackson1
Ring-neck Duck1
Ring-necked Pheasant1
Rivoli's Hummingbird1
Rock Squirrel1
Rose-winged Parakeet1
Ross's Goose1
Rosy-faced Lovebird1
Rough-legged Hawk1
Royal Spoonbill1
Royal Tern1
Rufescent Tiger-Heron1
Ruffed Grouse2
Rufous Hummingbird1
Rufous-backed Robin2
Rufous-bellied Chachalaca1
Rufous-collared Sparrow1
Rufous-crowned Sparrow1
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird1
Rufous-winged Sparrow1
Rusty Blackbird2
Sabine's Gull1
Sacred Kingfisher2
Sal1
Salton Sea1
San Blas Jay1
San Sebastion Del Oeste1
Sandhill Crane1
Santa Maria2
Scaled Quail1
Scaled Qual1
Scaly-breasted Munia1
Scarlet Ibis1
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis1
Scintillant Hummingbird1
Scott's Oriole1
Scrub Greenlet1
Semipalmated Plover1
Sharp-tailed Grouse1
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper1
Short-eared Owl1
Short-eared Owls1
Silvereye1
Sinaloa Crow1
Sinaloa Martin1
Slate-colored Redstart1
Smooth-billed Ani1
Snow Bunting1
Snow Goose1
Snowy Egret1
Snowy Owl1
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird1
Solitary Sandpiper1
Song Sparrow4
Song Thrush1
Sonoran Whipsnake1
Sooty Grouse4
South Island Oystercatcher1
South Island Takahe2
Southeastern Arizona birding1
Southern Bentbill1
Southern House Wren1
Southern Lapwing1
Spanish Sparrow1
spiritual meditation1
Spot-breasted Oriole1
Spot-breasted Woodpecker1
Spotless Starling1
Spotted Dove1
Spotted Owl1
Spotted Shag1
Spruce Grouse1
Steller's Jay1
Stitchbird3
strange new worlds1
Streak-backed Oriole1
Streaked Saltator1
Stripe-headed Sparrow1
Striped Owl1
Sulfur-bellied Flycatcher1
Summer Tanager1
Sunbitterns1
Swamp Harrier1
Swinhoe's White-eye1
Tennessee Warbler1
Texas Horned Lizard1
Thayer's Gull1
the Darien Gap1
Thick-billed Euphonia1
Thick-billed Parrot1
Townsend's Solitaire4
Townsend's Warbler1
Tree Swallow1
Tricolored Heron2
Tropical Parula1
Tropical Screech-Owl1
Tucson Audubon Rare Bird Alert1
Tucson Botanical Gardens1
Tufted Flycatcher1
Tufted Puffin2
Tui2
Tundra bean goose2
Turkey Vulture1
Two Rivers1
Vallarta Botanical Gardens1
Variable Oystercatcher2
Variable Seedeater1
Varied Thrush1
Vermilion Flycatcher1
Vesper Sparrow1
Violet-crowned Hummingbird1
Waekanae Estuary1
Waimanu Lagoons1
Wakodahatchee Wetlands1
Wandering Tattler1
Washington birding1
Wattled Jacana1
Weka2
Welcome Swallow1
West Mexican Chachalaca2
West Mexican Euphonia1
Western Bluebird2
Western Cattle Egrets1
Western Diamondback1
Western Gull2
Western House-Martin1
Western Kingbird1
Western Screech-Owl2
Whimbrel1
Whiskered screech-owl1
White Ibis1
White-bellied Antbird1
White-crowned Pigeon1
White-crowned Sparrow5
White-eared Conebill1
White-faced Heron1
White-faced Ibis1
White-fronted Tern1
White-headed Wren1
White-striped Woodcreeper1
White-tailed Emerald1
White-tailed Hawk1
White-tailed Kite1
White-tailed Wagtail1
White-throated Mountain-gem1
White-throated Thrush1
White-winged Crossbill1
White-winged Scoter1
Whitehead1
Whooping Motmot1
Wild Turkey1
Williamson's Sapsucker2
Wilson's Snipe1
Wilson's Warbler1
Wisconsin birding1
Wood Duck1
Wood Stork2
Woodland Dunes1
Woodland Dunes Nature Center1
Yellow Grosbeak1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker1
Yellow-billed Cacique1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo1
Yellow-breasted Chat2
Yellow-crowned Bishop1
Yellow-crowned Night Heron1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron1
Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet1
Yellow-eyed Junco3
Yellow-green Vireo1
Yellow-headed Blackbird1
Yellow-rumped Cacique1
Yellow-rumped Warbler1
Yellow-tailed Oriole1
Yellow-throated Toucan1
Yellow-throated Warbler1
Yellow-winged Cacique1
Yellowhammer1
Yuma1
Zealandia1
Zone-tailed Hawk1

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