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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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4:29

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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3:48

The top bird on Cape Cod in 2024

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/01/01

With just a few days left in 2024, the undisputed bird of the year for Cape Cod was found in Chatham.

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4:28

Merry Christmas Bird Counts

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/12/30

Amidst the silent majesty of this cold Christmas morn, I can only assume you are all gathered around the radio, in the warm embrace of kith and kin, waiting to hear the latest results of the local bird counts.

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4:25

A mystery bird in Provincetown has been identified

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/12/18

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.

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4:11

A magical season has arrived

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/12/11

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4:25

Remembering the brief glory of the Northern Lapwing...

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/12/04

On Nantucket this week, the birders are all having flashbacks to October of 2012, when Hurricane Sandy famously devastated parts of the East Coast.

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3:33

Time to talk turkeys

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/11/27

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.

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4:13

A visit from a special kind of towhee

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/11/20

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4:41

A globetrotting seabird with a local name

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/11/13

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.

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4:13

Seabird regime change

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/11/06

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.”

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3:22

Seeing rare birds can happen anytime

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/10/30

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.

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4:10

Fall rarities and common delights

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/10/23

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.

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4:11

A tiny but tough bird is visiting us from the North

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/10/16

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.

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3:55

Unusual birds are arriving every day

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/10/09

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3:57

Enjoying the bird drama that unfolds around us

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/10/02

As we turn another calendar page, we’re also turning a corner in the fall migration. I’ve always preferred October to September, mainly because we tend to get more birds later in the fall.

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4:05

The birds that the wind brought in

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/09/25

You may have noticed that it rained recently, for the first time in what seemed like years. In addition to a satisfying, multi-day soaking of our parched soils, this weather also brought the kind of winds that get the attention of storm bird chasers, that hardy and quirky subset of the already quirky subset of society that is birders.

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4:12

Using a camera to add rare birds to your list

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/09/18

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.

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3:43

The joys of birding with a group

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/09/11

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3:50

A Cape Cod birding beach that’s worth the trek

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/09/04

More than 300 species of birds have been recorded from Race Point, the second-highest list of anywhere on the Cape and Islands.

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3:42

Wayward birds of late summer

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/08/28

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.

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