Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of April 19) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

An early Manx shearwater was seen at Race Point in Provincetown, along with 900 red-breasted mergansers, 140 red-throated loons, 1,100 Northern gannets, a common murre, 74 razorbills, 29 Iceland gulls, 2 lesser black-backed gulls, 3 glaucous gulls, and a merlin.

Birds at Bell’s Neck conservation area in West Harwich included 25 green-winged teal, 2 black-crowned night-herons, 3 pectoral sandpipers, 3 lesser yellowlegs, 25 greater yellowlegs, 2 Wilson’s snipe, and 2 marsh wrens.

New spring arrivals included willets at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham and Wing Island in Brewster, purple martins in Mashpee, Eastern towhees across the region, Northern parula at Wing Island, a blue-headed vireo at Camp Edwards, and black-and-white warbler in Harwich.

Other sightings around the Cape included 2 blue-winged teal at West Dennis Beach, 8 lesser scaup and 3 ruddy ducks at Mystic Lake in Barnstable, a brown thrasher and a yellow-bellied sapsucker at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, and 5 Northern bobwhites in West Yarmouth.

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.