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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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4:35

The wildlife of Nickerson State Park

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/08/21

In all my years of camping and doing field work around the US I never knew that flying squirrels could be camp scavengers.

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3:26

The birding action moves to the beaches of Cape Cod

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/08/14

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.

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3:42

The long-haul travelers of the shoreline

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/08/07

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.

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4:14

Cultivating a love of butterflies

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/07/31

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.

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4:11

Great birds in an odd place

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/07/24

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.

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4:04

The flamingo is back. A beautiful stranger returns to...

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/07/17

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4:36

A special grassland habitat right here on Cape Cod

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/07/10

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.

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4:16

A coastal sparrow that is trying to beat the odds

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/07/03

Recently, Mass Audubon has turned its conservational gaze upon an inconspicuous and imperiled coastal resident. This saltmarsh sprite lives life on the edge, only nesting in the daily-flooded coastal marshes from southern Maine to Chesapeake Bay, where they struggle to complete their nesting cycle between the monthly high tides.

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3:57

A fly-by-night flycatcher and more kite sights

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/06/26

While kite-o-rama continues on the Cape, with both kite species still turning up from Mashpee to Harwich, the Vineyard scored this week with an even less likely bird with a long, bifurcated tail.

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4:01

Swallow-tailed kites are getting comfortable on Cape Cod

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/06/19

Mid-June is kind of like the slack tide in the Cape ornithological calendar. Songbird and shorebird migration are over, with most birds now busy breeding across the Northern Hemisphere.

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4:10

The tough survivors of nesting season

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/06/12

We have a backlog of old business to attend to here at Bird Report central, namely, what’s going on with breeding birds right now? The answer is, they are battling for their lives and the lives of their children in this war zone we call the suburbs.

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4:00

Big, pink, and lost—a flamingo visits Cape Cod

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/06/05

What’s lanky and lost and pink all over? It’s the American Flamingo that spent Sunday afternoon at Chapin Beach in Dennis. Only a lucky few got to see it, but this real, actual flamingo was indeed there. But how did it get there, and where did it come from?

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4:14

One Mississippi, two Mississippis: Keep your eyes...

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/05/29

It finally happened, for me anyway, on Friday morning. By “it,” I mean some clear evidence of newly arrived migrants of a number worthy of mid-to-late May.

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4:15

Spring migrants, and the ones we’re still waiting for

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/05/22

We’re entering the home stretch of spring migration, but, here on the Cape, it still feels like a sputtering engine that can’t quite turn over.

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3:52

Bird-a-thon birds and migration ready to explode

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/05/15

Last week I predicted our first real migrant songbird fallout of May on Thursday morning. Sadly, that did not materialize, probably because of too much rain between us and the birds that night, stopping them short of New England.

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4:10

Where are all the warblers?

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/05/08

When did your “spring is finally here” birds arrive? At my house, spring came Monday, April 29.

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4:42

A nearby island where the birds are in charge

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/05/01

This past weekend I was lucky enough to get in on an overnight junket to the island of Penikese, at the far end of the Elizabeths chain, courtesy of Dr. Andrew Gillis of the Marine Biological Lab and our hosts, the Penikese School.

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4:10

The surprising things that hummingbirds eat

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/04/24

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3:25

Let's talk about that flood of spring overshoot migrants

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/04/17

The first hummingbird was reported on the Cape, as expected for mid-April, but this eagerly anticipated annual event was overshadowed by spring overshoot fever — southerly winds brought, well, a windfall of rare birds to the Cape and Islands.

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3:59

Keep an eye and ear out for the uncommon birds of April

Weekly Bird Report ·

2024/04/10

April isn’t my favorite month in the birding calendar, especially when its weather barely outperforms bleakest March, but it has its charms – the first hummingbirds and seabird migration among them.

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