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...
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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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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.
Everything’s rare somewhere
Ornithologist Mark Faherty talks about the return of a Tufted Titmouse making its return to Nantucket.
Winter encounters with owls
What we lacked in numbers of the common owls, we made up for with encounters with some of the more sought after species.
Outer Cape winter birding
Looking at waxwings and eiders to find their unusual relatives among the flocks.
Early results from the Christmas bird counts
The first results are in.
Western Tanagers and snow birds
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...
In search of Massachusetts puffins
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 visit from two rare birds
A limpkin visited Scituate and a common cuckoo visited New Hampshire in recent days.
A visit from two rare birds
A limpkin visited Scituate and a common cuckoo visited New Hampshire in recent days.
Time to talk wild turkeys
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...
A solitary solitaire
Townsend’s Solitaire is the only US representative of a group of mostly mountain dwelling thrushes of Central and South America, plus Hawaii...