Back on September 29, a boatload of birders clutching backpacks and sleeping bags headed out of Hyannis at dawn, bound for the continental shelf and its deep, warm water canyons some 130 miles to the south.

Weekly Bird Report

Birds on boats, vis mig part two

This past weekend I was unchained from my desk for a rare opportunity to get out and take some folks birding – in this case it was a weekend-long “Birding the Fall Migration” Field School for Mass Audubon.

Bird Report- vis mig

On this week's Bird Report, Mark Faherty talks about the Ham burglars of the sea.

Robbers of the high-seas

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

Migration Becomes a Reality

A magnificent discovery

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

Birds you can experience on your Cape Cod "staycation"

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

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

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.

Shorebirds worth noticing

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

It's always worth getting out on a boat

Nauka

Nauki Przyrodnicze

nature

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.

Birds on boats, vis mig part two

Weekly Bird Report

Więcej odcinków z kanału "Weekly Bird Report"