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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.

  • 4 minutes 13 seconds
    Seabird regime change
    Let’s face it, we all woke up this morning with the same question: what’s going on with seabirds right now? I’m glad you asked, because the answer is “a whole helluva lot.”
    6 November 2024, 1:55 pm
  • 3 minutes 22 seconds
    Seeing rare birds can happen anytime
    Another week, another lost flycatcher from some far-flung locale has turned up. This one had been flung further than most, having perhaps started its journey as far away as Argentina.
    30 October 2024, 1:08 pm
  • 4 minutes 10 seconds
    Fall rarities and common delights
    With an exceedingly rare Gray Kingbird that played hide and seek with birders in Eastham this week, the Cape reclaimed the title of rare bird capital of the region, but sadly this Caribbean visitor kept moving - it was last seen on the 19th at Nauset Light Beach.
    23 October 2024, 12:45 pm
  • 4 minutes 11 seconds
    A tiny but tough bird is visiting us from the North
    Last week’s Vermilion Flycatcher, the briefly famous female photographed at South Cape Beach in Mashpee, turned out to be a one-day wonder, as we birders say – she hasn’t been seen since. Beyond a wayward Western Kingbird that’s still hanging around Peterson Farm in Falmouth, it was a quiet week on the Cape for fall rarities.
    16 October 2024, 11:44 am
  • 3 minutes 55 seconds
    Unusual birds are arriving every day
    9 October 2024, 12:35 pm
  • 3 minutes 57 seconds
    Enjoying the bird drama that unfolds around us
    As we turn another calendar page, we’re also turning a corner in the fall migration. I’ve always preferred October to September, mainly because we tend to get more birds later in the fall.
    2 October 2024, 12:11 pm
  • 4 minutes 5 seconds
    The birds that the wind brought in
    You may have noticed that it rained recently, for the first time in what seemed like years. In addition to a satisfying, multi-day soaking of our parched soils, this weather also brought the kind of winds that get the attention of storm bird chasers, that hardy and quirky subset of the already quirky subset of society that is birders.
    25 September 2024, 11:58 am
  • 4 minutes 12 seconds
    Using a camera to add rare birds to your list
    When it comes to bird photography, experienced practitioners know that sometimes it’s best to shoot first and ask questions later. What I mean is, even expert birders don’t always know exactly what they’re looking at until they get home and look at the photos.
    18 September 2024, 11:08 am
  • 3 minutes 43 seconds
    The joys of birding with a group
    11 September 2024, 12:29 pm
  • 3 minutes 50 seconds
    A Cape Cod birding beach that’s worth the trek
    More than 300 species of birds have been recorded from Race Point, the second-highest list of anywhere on the Cape and Islands.
    4 September 2024, 12:22 pm
  • 3 minutes 42 seconds
    Wayward birds of late summer
    It’s not just back to school time for kids, all those billions of young birds that hatched over the spring and summer need to learn how to be birds, and it’s a real school of hard knocks.
    28 August 2024, 12:08 pm
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