Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of July 19) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
Sightings from Race Point and Hatches Harbor in Provincetown included a black-headed gull, a little gull, a black skimmer, 90 Bonaparte’s gulls, 2 Royal terns, 115 least terns, 2 black terns, 9 Arctic terns, 35 roseate terns, and 650 common terns.
A mini-pelagic out of Provincetown Harbor tallied 1,450 Cory’s shearwaters, 20 great shearwaters, 38 sooty shearwaters, 1 Manx shearwater, 1,000 Wilson’s storm-petrels, and 4 red-necked phalaropes.
Another small pelagic trip East of Chatham produced 285 Cory’s shearwaters, 450 great shearwaters, 120 sooty shearwaters, 5 Manx shearwaters, 1,500 Wilson’s storm-petrels, and 4 lesser black-backed gulls.
Mass Audubon’s Tern Island in Chatham hosted 800 short-billed dowitchers, 65 red knots, 140 semipalmated sandpipers, 11 piping plovers, and 18 American oystercatchers.
Other sightings included a chuck-will’s-widow at Elain Avenue in Falmouth, 2 black skimmers and a bobolink in Mashpee, 22 American oystercatchers, 107 piping plovers, and 9 whimbrels at Monomoy refuge in Chatham, and a royal tern and 30 red knots in Nauset Marsh in Eastham.
For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon.org.