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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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3:58

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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4:13

Shorebirds worth noticing

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/08/13

As we round the corner of mid-summer, with Labor Day now dimly visible at the horizon, it’s time you got serious about shorebirds.

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3:56

It's always worth getting out on a boat

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/08/06

You may not see hundreds of shearwaters and other seabirds, but it’s always worth getting out in a boat.

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4:01

Birding and fishing go well together

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/07/30

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3:42

A bird from the wrong ocean

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/07/23

Predicting this South Pacific seabird’s appearance in the state was utterly absurd – there had never been a Juan Fernandez Petrel in the entire North Atlantic, and there are maybe 3 records in the South Atlantic, none closer than Brazil.

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4:09

Watching for butterflies

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/07/16

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3:57

It’s time to look for summer seabirds

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/07/09

With the tourist hordes come the birds of summer, and they are worth leaving your home for, and maybe even crossing a town line or two.

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3:22

Where Are All the Shorebirds?

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/07/02

Many terns and gulls usually seen on Cape Cod beaches are still nesting in the Arctic. Meantime, those who are on the Cape are nesting in rooftop malls and buildings.

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3:21

An unexpected nesting site for gulls

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/07/02

People picture the Cape’s beaches covered in gulls and maybe even terns and shorebirds, likely because their past visits were later in summer. As a result, someone arriving in June or even early July will be struck by how birdless the beaches are.

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3:33

More birds are enjoying the cicada buffet

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/06/25

Last week I covered the Brood XIV 17-year cicadas and the birds that love them, but it turned out the birds weren’t quite done adding to this story.

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4:20

Seventeen years later, cicadas return to Cape Cod —...

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/06/18

The much-heralded Brood XIV 17-year cicadas have finally arrived. Have they been serenading you? If you’re in the emergence zone, this is really old news at this point, as they emerged weeks ago and most have probably laid eggs and kicked the bucket at this point. But how does this apparent bonanza affect birds?

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4:41

A screech owl love story

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/06/11

For several years, I’ve had a mostly unoccupied screech-owl box on an oak tree in the narrow strip of woods in my backyard. I hung it about 14 feet up, positioned so we can see the hole from the house, and have monitored it expectantly ever since.

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4:22

The kites are getting cozy

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/06/04

Back on Memorial Day, as we Harwich Fahertys discussed what to do, I coyly suggested a family hike with some Upper Cape friends of ours. But where?

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4:05

What a week for birds on Cape Cod

Weekly Bird Report ·

2025/05/28

This has been one of those rare weeks where enough happened to fuel several weeks of bird reports — a spring nor’easter that poured rare seabirds into Cape Cod Bay, a colony of at least five apparently nesting Swallow-tailed Kites in Mashpee that also shattered the state high count, and, most importantly, the cuteness overload of baby owls fledging in my very own yard.

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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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