Birds that are (probably) not a sign of the apocalypse

In this week's Bird Report, Mark Faherty shares information on bird migration.

A camping trip to Nickerson State Park in Brewster yields some bird superstars.

Erratic, swirling flocks of flying gulls look like a Hitchcock film. They're actually just catching bugs.

The hummingbirds of summer.

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.

You may not see hundreds of shearwaters and other seabirds, but it’s always worth getting out in a boat.

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 South Atlantic, none closer than Brazil.