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Bird sightings

Recent bird sightings as ­reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

Migrants were on the move last week as breeding activity neared its peak. Among the traditional late migrants were shorebird species such as ruddy turnstone, red knot, and white-rumped sandpiper, as well as passerines including olive-­sided, yellow-bellied, acadian, and alder flycatcher, gray-cheeked thrush, and mourning warbler.

Provincetown: A storm early last week produced some interesting sightings at Race Point, including 54 common loons; three great, 42 sooty, and 12 Manx shearwaters; 12 ­Wilson’s storm-petrels; 780 Northern gannets; two pomarine; 5 parasitic, and 14 unidentified jaegers; and one common murre.

Barnstable: At Sandy Neck, storm-driven birds included one Leach’s storm-petrel and one red-necked phalarope.

Newburyport: Reports from the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island last week included single-horned and red-necked grebes, one least bittern, one marbled godwit, 11 red knots, one little gull, three Caspian terns, two roseate terns, three Arctic terns, one Forster’s tern, and one gray-cheeked thrush.

Hingham: Reported at Wompatuck State Park were one Acadian flycatcher and a total of 22 veeries, 41 ovenbirds, and five scarlet tanagers.

Nantucket: A report from Tuckernuck Island included one king eider, one bar-tailed godwit, and two south polar skuas.

Miscellaneous reports last week included three Manx shearwaters near Revere Beach; one brown pelican in Gloucester; two yellow-crowned night-herons at ­Waquoit Bay in Falmouth; two olive-sided flycatchers in ­Westborough; one mourning warbler in East Boston; one dickcissel in South Dartmouth; and a yellow-headed blackbird on Shaw Road in Fairhaven. A marshbird survey at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge last weekend documented three pied billed grebes, three least bitterns, 16 Virginia rails, three soras, one common gallinule, and one American coot.

For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to the website ­www.massaudubon.org.