Return of the caracara
A Crested Caracara turns up at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, marking the second Cape sighting of this warm-climate raptor this summer. T...
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Weekly Bird Report on WCAI
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...
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20 of 36 episodesKite excitement
After literally years of trolling us, the weirdest presumed breeding bird on Cape Cod has finally given up the goods. The huge, unmistakable...
Migration at the cliffs
That famous Bridled Tern is back in the news again, this time at Seagull Beach in Yarmouth. But there's bigger birding happening on the Vine...
thrifty birds
Late-summer Cape Cod brings rare Swallow-tailed Kites and spectacular waves of migrating shorebirds. Find out where to see both before the s...
A tern of the head
Shorebird migration is picking up, but the world's friendliest rare bird stole the show. This week, the famous bridled tern toured Cape Cod...
A tern of the head
A rare tropical seabird has spent weeks charming its way around Scituate Harbor, perching on cars, deck railings, and even the heads of beac...
It’s not a falcon
A Crested Caracara, a tropical bird of prey rarely seen north of Florida and Texas, turned up at Race Point in Provincetown this week, one o...
Bath time
It's all about water. One refilled bird bath brought a flood of orioles, a Wellfleet Bay stream draws in warblers and bluebirds, and a volun...
Cousin Chuck isn’t leaving
As Whip-poor-wills grow scarce in the region's pine woods, a larger and considerably ruder cousin has taken up residence: the Chuck-will's-w...
(More than) one good tern and other June surprises
Despite its reputation as a quiet month for birding, June delivers a string of surprises on the Cape and Islands this week, led by multiple...
Putting the nature in nature playground
A short stop at a Mass Audubon nature playground becomes an insect safari full of parasites, predators, mimics, and a tiny fly with a very b...
May’s last hurrah
A spring storm delivers rare seabirds, massive flocks of songbirds, and the Cape’s first confirmed Prothonotary Warbler nest.
The hawk and the hummingbirds
Wildlife photographer Diane Palomba noticed something strange at Long Pasture: hummingbirds nesting suspiciously close to a Cooper's Hawk. T...
Ibisfest part 2 and the longspur has landed
Mark Faherty recaps an exciting week of spring migration on Cape Cod, featuring rare ibis sightings, a surprise Chestnut-collared Longspur,...
Ibis Invasion and much more!
This week’s spring migration reached spectacular heights as rare southern visitors mixed with huge numbers of songbirds pouring into Cape Co...
Mid-May Madness
Mark Faherty talks about a few of the long distance travelers that he has spotted this May from the Nashville Warbler to the Blue-headed Vir...
Songs of April
Mark Faherty talks about the birds showing up at your feeders.
Swainson’s Hawk
How did a hemisphere-trotting hawk of the arid west get to Cape Cod?
April migration
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...
Feeder frenzy
Mark Faherty talks about the surging bird populations on the Cape in the springtime.