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

Weekly Bird Report

Songs of April

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

Swainson’s Hawk

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-throated Hummingbird

April migration

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

Feeder frenzy

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

Everything’s rare somewhere

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

Winter encounters with owls

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

Outer Cape winter birding

Early results from the Christmas bird counts

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 rare bird in your yard.

Western Tanagers and snow birds

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 in deep Massachusetts waters.

In search of Massachusetts puffins

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Ciencias naturales

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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 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.

Songs of April

Weekly Bird Report

Otros episodios de "Weekly Bird Report"

Songs of April

Swainson’s Hawk

April migration

Feeder frenzy

Everything’s rare somewhere

Winter encounters with owls

Outer Cape winter birding

Early results from the Christmas bird counts

Western Tanagers and snow birds

In search of Massachusetts puffins