Migration Becomes a Reality

The bar-tailed Godwit is a tall, long-billed sandpiper that has in recent years been crowned the champion long-distance migrant among, well, all animals, thanks to increasingly small satellite tracking devices.

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.

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.

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

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.