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Weekly Bird Report on WCAI

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The Weekly Bird Report with Mark Faherty can be heard every Wednesday on WCAI, the local NPR station for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the South Coast. Mark has been the Science Coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary since August 2007 and has led birding trips for Mass Audubon since 2002. He is past president of the Cape Cod Bird Club and current member of the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee.

  • 3 minutes 52 seconds
    The bird Grammys
    We are overdue for another episode of everyone’s favorite made-up, bird-related, Cape Cod-based award show: the Bird Grammys!
    5 February 2025, 1:00 pm
  • 4 minutes 19 seconds
    Find local open water patches for great birding
    By mid-winter, the prize rare birds have all been established and often settle into a routine.
    29 January 2025, 1:36 pm
  • 4 minutes 4 seconds
    How do birds survive in the cold?
    As this throwback winter plods on, with ice fishers on the ponds and ice floes on the bay, one of the most common questions us bird folks get is “how do birds survive these brutal temperatures?”
    22 January 2025, 1:53 pm
  • 4 minutes 25 seconds
    Wrapping up the Christmas Bird Counts
    15 January 2025, 1:31 pm
  • 4 minutes 29 seconds
    A raptor story
    Suddenly a big bird rocketed into view – a Peregrine Falcon, death missile of the tidal flats, no doubt hunting the shorebirds.
    8 January 2025, 1:38 pm
  • 3 minutes 48 seconds
    The top bird on Cape Cod in 2024
    With just a few days left in 2024, the undisputed bird of the year for Cape Cod was found in Chatham.
    1 January 2025, 1:39 pm
  • 4 minutes 28 seconds
    Merry Christmas Bird Counts
    Amidst the silent majesty of this cold Christmas morn, I can only assume you are all gathered around the radio, in the warm embrace of kith and kin, waiting to hear the latest results of the local bird counts.
    30 December 2024, 8:23 pm
  • 4 minutes 25 seconds
    A mystery bird in Provincetown has been identified
    This is one of those cases where a bird in the hand was going to be worth at least two in the bush. We needed a licensed hummingbird bander to catch and examine it.
    18 December 2024, 1:37 pm
  • 4 minutes 11 seconds
    A magical season has arrived
    11 December 2024, 12:58 pm
  • 4 minutes 25 seconds
    Remembering the brief glory of the Northern Lapwing of Eastham
    On Nantucket this week, the birders are all having flashbacks to October of 2012, when Hurricane Sandy famously devastated parts of the East Coast.
    4 December 2024, 1:42 pm
  • 3 minutes 33 seconds
    Time to talk turkeys
    It’s Thanksgiving Eve, so I suppose you expect me to dish out the usual stale, leftover poultry puns sandwiched between the same old turkey fun facts. Well, you’re right. So let’s not mince words and get right into to the meat of the topic.
    27 November 2024, 8:41 pm
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