Recent sightings (through Sept. 3) as reported to Mass Audubon.
A brown booby was seen at Race Point in Provincetown, and other reports from the Race included a Pacific loon, 4 red knots, 2 whimbrels, a long-tailed jaeger, 15 parasitic jaegers, 1,500 laughing gulls, 2 lesser black-backed gulls, 3,000 common terns, 800 roseate terns, 10 Cory’s shearwaters, 50 great shearwaters, 15 sooty shearwaters, and 250 Manx shearwaters.
The continuing high diversity of wading birds at Pogorelc Sanctuary in Barnstable included 2 little blue herons, 5 yellow-crowned night herons, 1 black-crowned night heron, 50 great egrets, and 10 snowy egrets.
Several reports from Chapin Beach in Dennis, including a Cape Cod Bird Club walk, turned up 2 American oystercatchers, an American golden-plover, 450 black-bellied plovers, a marbled godwit, 2 red-necked phalaropes, 26 red knots, 550 sanderlings, and 800 laughing gulls.
Other sightings around the Cape included a Sabine’s gull on Stellwagen Bank, a black vulture in Bourne, 81 American oystercatchers and 16 lesser black-backed gulls at Morris Island in Chatham, and single Philadelphia vireos in Brewster and Wellfleet.
If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to cape.sightings@massaudubon.org.