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Mark Faherty talks about the birds showing up at your feeders.
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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 Scienc...

Mark Faherty talks about the birds showing up at your feeders.

How did a hemisphere-trotting hawk of the arid west get to Cape Cod?

Mark Faherty talks about the different types of birds returning to the area this time of year from the Golden-crowned Kinglet to the Ruby-th...

Mark Faherty talks about the surging bird populations on the Cape in the springtime.

Ornithologist Mark Faherty talks about the return of a Tufted Titmouse making its return to Nantucket.

What we lacked in numbers of the common owls, we made up for with encounters with some of the more sought after species.

Looking at waxwings and eiders to find their unusual relatives among the flocks.

The first results are in.

Big flocks of birds tend to draw in other birds, including any lost waifs from elsewhere. Sometimes just looking out the window can reveal a...

The Atlantic puffin is a real crowd-pleaser. While people know them as a nesting bird of rocky Maine Islands in summer, small numbers winter...

A limpkin visited Scituate and a common cuckoo visited New Hampshire in recent days.

A limpkin visited Scituate and a common cuckoo visited New Hampshire in recent days.

Turkeys have a role to play in the emergence of that pest du jour, the Lone Star Tick, and the weird red-meat allergy they transmit, alpha-g...

Townsend’s Solitaire is the only US representative of a group of mostly mountain dwelling thrushes of Central and South America, plus Hawaii...

A common theme on the bird report is the omnidirectional origins of the interesting birds we see, especially in fall – in any given week we...

Brown Boobies look a lot like young gannets, which are various shades of brown, but unlike gannets, they will sit on rocks close to shore fo...

With All Hallows Eve rapidly approaching, I thought it was high time to explore the spookier side of birds.

Roseate Spoonbills are a Florida bird to us easterners, but most of their range is in South America.

The bar-tailed Godwit is a tall, long-billed sandpiper that has in recent years been crowned the champion long-distance migrant among, well,...

Back on September 29, a boatload of birders clutching backpacks and sleeping bags headed out of Hyannis at dawn, bound for the continental s...