Mark Faherty
Mark Faherty writes the Weekly Bird Report.
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. While his current projects involve everything from oysters and horseshoe crabs to bats and butterflies, he has studied primarily bird ecology for the last 20 years, working on research projects in Kenya, Florida, Texas, California, Arizona, Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest. He was a counter for the famous River of Raptors hawk watch in Veracruz, Mexico, and has birded Africa, Panama, Belize, and both Eastern and Western Europe. Mark is an emcee and trip leader for multiple birding festivals and leads workshops on birding by ear, eBird, birding apps, and general bird identification. He is past president of the Cape Cod Bird Club and current member of the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee.
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This week on the bird report, spring birds have started to arrive in big numbers. -
This week on the Bird Report, Mark contemplates how bird species on Cape Cod have varied over the years.
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Late April is a heady time in birding – when it comes to spring migration, everything is either happening or just about to happen, or in some case, has never happened before.
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Spring, that cold, wet joke played on us Cape and Islands folk, begins in less than two weeks.
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It’s piping plover nesting season – and that means a chance to see some amusing mating rituals.
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Early spring is a time of many firsts for the nature watcher. Sometimes slowly, sometimes in bursts, locally slumbering critters are coming online every day.
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This week on the Bird Report: seeking out the late-March arrivals.
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This week on the Bird Report, a bird that can stay on Cape Cod over the winter – with a little help.
