Weekly Bird Report
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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..
Weekly Bird Report
6d ago
This week on The Bird Report, the connection between horseshoe crabs and red knots ..read more
Weekly Bird Report
1w ago
May is a month of intense and concentrated bird migration. Unlike fall, when legions of younger birds take their sweet time heading south over a period of several months, spring migration is short and serious – taking too long could mean you don’t get to breed this year ..read more
Weekly Bird Report
2w ago
As the dust settles on another Mass Audubon Bird-a-thon weekend, it’s time to catch up with all that went down ..read more
Weekly Bird Report
3w ago
The last week or so has been an odd one in Cape Cod birding. While we were sitting and waiting on the songbird migration floodgates to open, pouring forth warblers, orioles, hummingbirds and such, the bird world came at us from a different direction ..read more
Weekly Bird Report
1M ago
Though, as usual, I didn’t have any actual birding plans, my weekend somehow ended up a triumphant birding success ..read more
Weekly Bird Report
1M ago
As we approach mid-April, spring migration is heating up, literally and figuratively ..read more
Weekly Bird Report
2M ago
The lowly horseshoe crab – due to laziness or extreme stubbornness, somehow it hasn’t managed to evolve perceptibly in over 400 million years. And yet, somehow, people love them ..read more
Weekly Bird Report
2M ago
The eagle has landed. Or rather, the Osprey has landed, and he found an eagle squatting in his nest. Now what? A couple of months ago I covered the topic of Bald Eagles hanging out on Osprey nests around here during the winter ..read more
Weekly Bird Report
3M ago
Spring, that cold, wet joke played on us Cape and Islands folk, begins in less than two weeks ..read more
Weekly Bird Report
3M ago
A locally famous Bald Eagle from up in Arlington fell ill on Monday, and is now being treated at Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable. The reason this eagle is sick has more to do with you and me than you might realize, and the common denominator is rats ..read more