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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 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
  • 4 minutes 35 seconds
    The wildlife of Nickerson State Park
    In all my years of camping and doing field work around the US I never knew that flying squirrels could be camp scavengers.
    21 August 2024, 11:21 am
  • 3 minutes 26 seconds
    The birding action moves to the beaches of Cape Cod
    The birds, being well-versed in Shakespeare, know that all the world’s a stage. Maybe not, but what they do know is that some of the world’s a staging area, and one of the most important staging areas is right here on the Cape and Islands.
    14 August 2024, 11:31 am
  • 3 minutes 42 seconds
    The long-haul travelers of the shoreline
    In case you haven’t heard, the Globetrotters are in town. Not the basketball ones, in case you thought of them first for some reason - I’m talking about the actual globe trotters, the Arctic-nesting shorebirds.
    7 August 2024, 12:18 pm
  • 4 minutes 14 seconds
    Cultivating a love of butterflies
    Let’s face it, insects suffer from a likeability deficit akin to that of most politicians, what with the biting and the disease transmission and the landing on your food right when you’re about to eat it and all. But I think we can all get behind butterflies, those harmless, even beneficial, and undeniably beautiful ambassadors for the insect world.
    31 July 2024, 11:15 am
  • 4 minutes 11 seconds
    Great birds in an odd place
    About 20 years ago I was doing bird surveys for my graduate research all through the Cape Cod National Seashore – I had over 300 survey points from Fort Hill in Eastham to Wood End in Provincetown, and I knew the park, including deep, off-trail areas, as well as anyone.
    24 July 2024, 11:56 am
  • 4 minutes 4 seconds
    The flamingo is back. A beautiful stranger returns to Cape Cod
    17 July 2024, 11:17 am
  • 4 minutes 36 seconds
    A special grassland habitat right here on Cape Cod
    On Monday, though it’s full-on tourist season and many of my local friends had been putting out “shelter in place” warnings on social media, I bravely ventured from the Lower Cape to deep in the heart of the Upper Cape.
    10 July 2024, 12:48 pm
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