Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

►Plum Island: Recent sightings at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge included an American wigeon, six northern gannets, a least bittern, eight lesser yellowlegs, a pectoral sandpiper, a dunlin, and six short-billed dowitchers.

►Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary: A seabird survey on Wednesday tallied a breeding plumaged pacific loon, two sooty shearwaters, a manx shearwater, 120 Wilson’s storm-petrels, seven Leach’s storm-petrels, 32 northern gannets, and two black-legged kittiwakes. Off Chatham, thousands of great and sooty shearwaters are currently gathered along with smaller numbers of other seabird species.

►Squantum: There were reports of a glossy Ibis, 14 killdeer, nine greater yellowlegs, five lesser yellowlegs, and five short-billed dowitchers. At nearby Orchard Beach in Squantum, a brown pelican was observed on Friday.

►East Boston: Reports from Belle Isle included 18 great and 26 snowy egrets, four black-crowned night-herons, five American oystercatcher, 20 least sandpipers, eight greater and one lesser yellowlegs, two American kestrels, three willow flycatchers, and two saltmarsh sparrows.

►Miscellaneous: Reports of a brown pelican at Nantucket; a least bittern at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord; a cattle egret at Appleton Farm in Ipswich; a yellow-crowned night-heron at Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester; two black vultures in the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton; a sandhill crane at Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area in Hanson; single Chuck-will’s-widow in Plymouth and at Chappaquiddick on Martha’s Vineyard; a red-headed woodpecker in Lexington; a Merlin in Revere; and the continued presence of a blue grosbeak at the Cumberland Farms Field Complex in Middleboro.

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