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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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3:40

A rare bird that resembles a snake is found on Cape Cod

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/05/21

Rebekah Ambrose was asking for help identifying a bird she photographed in Barnstable, and her photos showed the first-ever Anhinga for the Cape and Islands.

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4:30

Watch for warblers

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/05/14

After a bleak winter, and a reluctant, rainy spring, we Cape and Islands year-rounders deserve a flowery and mild May.

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4:13

The changing soundscape of early May

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/05/07

While the turn of the calendar to May brings an avalanche of phenological change to yards and woods, maybe none is so obvious, and welcome, as the change in the morning soundscape.

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3:43

The kites are back

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/04/30

It’s not even May, and the “Swallow-tailed Kite triangle” of Cape Cod is already popping off with early sightings. There were no fewer than five reports of this improbably graceful hawk over the last week.

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4:23

New arrivals are coming every day

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/04/23

Let’s talk about everyone’s favorite garden accessory, the Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Quite a few have been reported already, with the first sighted back on the 17th in Brewster.

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4:57

Rare birds in a secret location

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/04/16

It’s a classic birding bummer — sometimes a rare bird comes to light too late for birders to see it, to the chagrin of those who missed out.

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3:48

A visit from a Pacific Loon

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/04/09

On Sunday, a rare bird was discovered on Great Pond in Eastham, driving local birders loony. This unassuming gray and white waterbird was in the wrong kind of water in the wrong town on the wrong coast.

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3:40

When Florida comes to Cape Cod

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/04/02

This year it turned out that, as I was heading to Florida, Florida was heading to Cape Cod. As soon as I got down there I saw the rare bird alert from back home blowing up with Florida birds, most of which I didn’t even see while I was in Florida.

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4:13

The return of the Ospreys

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/03/26

March may come in like a lion, but around here it goes out on the crooked wings of an Osprey.

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4:08

Shorebirds of early spring

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/03/19

They’re baaaaack! Here on the cusp of astronomical spring, those adorable little beach goers that certain people love to hate have arrived, or at least the first few scouts have. Piping Plovers have been seen in Orleans, Hyannis, and Sandwich, and more are likely out there on the bleak beaches of March

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4:12

Sights and sounds of early "spring"

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/03/12

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4:06

The eagle nest has landed

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/03/05

When Bald Eagles took over an Osprey nest on the Outer Cape two years ago it meant that, for the first time since the 1800s out here, the eagle had landed.

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3:59

A visiting bird worth watching

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/02/26

A lanky and mysterious stranger arrived in Provincetown last week, where he is often seen loitering near the famous Boy Beach at the west end. Flamboyantly arrayed in feathers, this visitor has developed quite a following, but it’s not for a drag show at the Post Office Cabaret.

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4:11

A birding activity you can do while staying warm

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/02/19

As I write on this coldest day of the season thus far, it seems wise to discuss an indoor birding activity almost universally enjoyed by bird fanciers – backyard bird feeding.

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4:06

A rare visitor from Europe

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/02/12

I thought it might have been a female Ring-necked Duck, but a view through my spotting scope showed the characteristic cowlick of a female Tufted Duck, a rare visitor from Europe.

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3:52

The bird Grammys

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/02/05

We are overdue for another episode of everyone’s favorite made-up, bird-related, Cape Cod-based award show: the Bird Grammys!

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4:19

Find local open water patches for great birding

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/01/29

By mid-winter, the prize rare birds have all been established and often settle into a routine.

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4:04

How do birds survive in the cold?

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/01/22

As this throwback winter plods on, with ice fishers on the ponds and ice floes on the bay, one of the most common questions us bird folks get is “how do birds survive these brutal temperatures?”

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4:25

Wrapping up the Christmas Bird Counts

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/01/15

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4:29

A raptor story

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/01/08

Suddenly a big bird rocketed into view – a Peregrine Falcon, death missile of the tidal flats, no doubt hunting the shorebirds.

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