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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 3 minutes
- Episodes
- 33
- Years Active
- 2025
Migration Becomes a Reality
In this week's Bird Report, Mark Faherty shares information on bird migration.
00:03:58 |
Wed 17 Sep 2025
Birds you can experience on your Cape Cod "staycation"
A camping trip to Nickerson State Park in Brewster yields some bird superstars.
00:04:54 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
Birds that are (probably) not a sign of the apocalypse
Erratic, swirling flocks of flying gulls look like a Hitchcock film. They're actually just catching bugs.
00:03:31 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
Shorebirds worth noticing
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.
00:04:13 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
It's always worth getting out on a boat
You may not see hundreds of shearwaters and other seabirds, but it’s always worth getting out in a boat.
00:03:56 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
A bird from the wrong ocean
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 So…
00:03:42 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
It’s time to look for summer seabirds
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.
00:03:57 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Where Are All the Shorebirds?
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.
00:03:22 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
An unexpected nesting site for gulls
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…
00:03:21 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
More birds are enjoying the cicada buffet
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.
00:03:33 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Seventeen years later, cicadas return to Cape Cod — and birds are stuffed
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 …
00:04:20 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
A screech owl love story
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 hous…
00:04:41 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
The kites are getting cozy
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?
00:04:22 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
What a week for birds on Cape Cod
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 apparent…
00:04:05 |
Wed 28 May 2025
A rare bird that resembles a snake is found on Cape Cod
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.
00:03:40 |
Wed 21 May 2025
Watch for warblers
After a bleak winter, and a reluctant, rainy spring, we Cape and Islands year-rounders deserve a flowery and mild May.
00:04:30 |
Wed 14 May 2025
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