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Weekly Bird Report

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.

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4:23

Early results from the Christmas bird counts

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/12/24

The first results are in.

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3:54

Western Tanagers and snow birds

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/12/17

Big flocks of birds tend to draw in other birds, including any lost waifs from elsewhere. Sometimes just looking out the window can reveal a rare bird in your yard.

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4:41

In search of Massachusetts puffins

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/12/10

The Atlantic puffin is a real crowd-pleaser. While people know them as a nesting bird of rocky Maine Islands in summer, small numbers winter in deep Massachusetts waters.

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4:22

A visit from two rare birds

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/12/03

A limpkin visited Scituate and a common cuckoo visited New Hampshire in recent days.

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4:22

A visit from two rare birds

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/12/03

A limpkin visited Scituate and a common cuckoo visited New Hampshire in recent days.

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3:24

Time to talk wild turkeys

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/11/26

Turkeys have a role to play in the emergence of that pest du jour, the Lone Star Tick, and the weird red-meat allergy they transmit, alpha-gal syndrome. You could say that when it comes to alpha-gal, turkeys giveth, and turkeys taketh away.

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4:10

A solitary solitaire

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/11/19

Townsend’s Solitaire is the only US representative of a group of mostly mountain dwelling thrushes of Central and South America, plus Hawaii somehow, and are some of my favorite birds. They are related to our bluebirds and robins but are better singers than both.

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3:49

Birds from around the compass

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/11/12

A common theme on the bird report is the omnidirectional origins of the interesting birds we see, especially in fall – in any given week we may see lost birds from Europe, Western Canada, the Caribbean, and the desert southwest. This week is a good example, with species hailing from all of these destinations making landfall on the Cape.

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3:22

The Booby Prize: watching a visiting warm-water seabird

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/11/05

Brown Boobies look a lot like young gannets, which are various shades of brown, but unlike gannets, they will sit on rocks close to shore for long periods – gannets essentially never come ashore around here unless they’re sick.

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4:40

Spooky bird sounds just in time for Halloween

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/10/29

With All Hallows Eve rapidly approaching, I thought it was high time to explore the spookier side of birds.

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4:05

A beautiful spoonbill

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/10/22

Roseate Spoonbills are a Florida bird to us easterners, but most of their range is in South America.

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4:32

The champion of the long-distance migrants

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/10/15

The bar-tailed Godwit is a tall, long-billed sandpiper that has in recent years been crowned the champion long-distance migrant among, well, all animals, thanks to increasingly small satellite tracking devices.

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4:34

Birds on boats, vis mig part two

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/10/08

Back on September 29, a boatload of birders clutching backpacks and sleeping bags headed out of Hyannis at dawn, bound for the continental shelf and its deep, warm water canyons some 130 miles to the south.

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3:55

Bird Report- vis mig

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/10/01

This past weekend I was unchained from my desk for a rare opportunity to get out and take some folks birding – in this case it was a weekend-long “Birding the Fall Migration” Field School for Mass Audubon.

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4:08

Robbers of the high-seas

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/09/24

On this week's Bird Report, Mark Faherty talks about the Ham burglars of the sea.

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3:58

Migration Becomes a Reality

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/09/17

In this week's Bird Report, Mark Faherty shares information on bird migration.

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3:47

A magnificent discovery

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/09/10

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4:54

Birds you can experience on your Cape Cod "staycation"

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/09/03

A camping trip to Nickerson State Park in Brewster yields some bird superstars.

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3:31

Birds that are (probably) not a sign of the apocalypse

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/08/27

Erratic, swirling flocks of flying gulls look like a Hitchcock film. They're actually just catching bugs.

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3:27

The hummingbirds of summer

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/08/20

The hummingbirds of summer.

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