Come join us on Wednesday, May 7th at 5:30 at the Provincetown Commons to hear Mark Faherty, one of the foremost bird experts in the Northeast talk about spring migration as well as the best of birding on Cape Cod. He’ll discuss where to go and what to look for through the seasons, as well as the natural history of a strange and misunderstood species: the Cape Cod Birder.

The event is FREE, donations to the Provincetown Conservation Trust accepted!

About Mark Faherty
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 also writes the weekly bird report for WCAI. 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.