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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 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
  • 4 minutes 13 seconds
    A visit from a special kind of towhee
    20 November 2024, 1:18 pm
  • 4 minutes 41 seconds
    A globetrotting seabird with a local name
    Cory’s are the biggest of our four shearwaters, a group of wind-surfing seabirds who navigate the trackless oceans by smell, riding the wind deflected upwards off waves to effortlessly cover hundreds of miles in search of fish and squid.
    13 November 2024, 11:57 am
  • 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
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