Recent sightings (through Aug. 4) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Sabine’s gull, a black-headed gull, a lesser black-backed gull, 80 Cory’s shearwaters, 30 great shearwaters, 130 sooty shearwaters, 60 Manx shearwaters, 2 whimbrel, a pectoral sandpiper, and a Northern bobwhite.
Birds in Nauset Marsh in Eastham included a royal tern, 18 yellow-crowned night-herons, 12 black-crowned night-herons, 12 American oystercatchers, 520 semipalmated plovers, 980 semipalmated sandpipers, a Western sandpiper, 400 short-billed dowitchers, 19 whimbrels, and 19 saltmarsh sparrows.
Shorebirds recorded from remote parts of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge included a ruff, 25 American oystercatchers, 21 piping plovers, 16 Hudsonian godwits, a marbled godwit, 600 sanderlings, 7 Western sandpipers, 120 red knots, 1,900 semipalmated sandpipers, 4,600 short-billed dowitchers including 13 Hendersonii subspecies, a long-billed dowitcher, 224 willets plus 22 Western willets, and 13,000 common terns.
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Another survey of the wilderness southern end of South Monomoy produced 13 Northern shovelers, 38 gadwall, 84 mallards, 22 American black ducks, 5 green-winged teal, 8 ruddy ducks, 2 pied-billed grebes, 5 common gallinules, a least bittern, a Baird’s sandpiper, and 6 stilt sandpipers.
Other reports around the Cape included a blue grosbeak in Falmouth; a little blue heron in Mashpee and 2 at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary; and a black guillemot in Provincetown Harbor.
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.