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Bird sightings on Cape Cod

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.