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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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Birds of Christmas present(s)

Weekly Bird Report ·

2023/12/27

While this is the season of Christmas Bird Counts, wherein highly trained hit squads of birders comb all the birdy hotspots and seldom visited back roads of the Cape and beyond, it is not correct to think of one of these counts as a complete census.

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Counting birds at Christmastime

Weekly Bird Report ·

2023/12/20

It’s that “most wonderful” time of year when a birder’s fancy turns to Christmas – Bird Counts, that is. This past weekend began the 124th year of National Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count, and the 93rd year of counts here on Cape Cod.

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Where have all the birds gone?

Weekly Bird Report ·

2023/12/13

Where are my birds? When you work in the bird industry, it’s often the most common question you get, right up there with “how do I stop the woodpeckers pecking my house?”

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The 2023 Cape Cod Bird Club's waterfowl census...

Weekly Bird Report ·

2023/12/06

This, after all, was the 40th anniversary of the Cape Cod Bird Club’s Waterfowl Census, and they would not be denied their ducks.

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A visitor from the Arctic

Weekly Bird Report ·

2023/11/29

That big, lemming-loving Arctic bird has finally been sighted again on Cape Cod. Just in from some tundra breeding ground in northern Canada or Alaska, this fierce and seldom-seen raptor of big, open areas is getting local birders excited for winter, with sightings of different birds in Dennis and Orleans.

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Let's talk turkeys

Weekly Bird Report ·

2023/11/22

At this turkey-oriented time, I’m here to take your mind off the fact that you have no plans to brine, or spatchcock, or deep fry a turkey in peanut oil, or whatever the gourmet types with endless free time tell us we should be doing to our turkeys.

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Birds on boats

Weekly Bird Report ·

2023/11/15

I’ve been on enough offshore boat trips in fall that I’ve seen someone with an actual oriole on their baseball cap.

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Another week, another set of rare avian emissaries...

Weekly Bird Report ·

2023/11/08

As so often happens, Facebook brought us word of the latest rare bird. A post in the Cape Cod Birders group on Monday showed clear photos of a hawk that, in the parlance of its native lands, ain’t from around these parts.

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Rarity roundup: cemeteries and beyond

Weekly Bird Report ·

2023/11/01

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Spooky birds

Weekly Bird Report ·

2023/10/25

Though we’re back to short-sleeve weather and barely a leaf has reached the ground, I assure you it is indeed late October, which means that All Hallows Eve is upon us.

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It’s the season for rare hummingbirds on Cape Cod

Weekly Bird Report ·

2023/10/18

Lately I’ve been looking for birds in a small community garden near my daughter’s school in Orleans — as we saw with last week’s state-first Virginia’s Warbler, community gardens can yield a bountiful bird harvest in fall.

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