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Bird sightings on Cape Cod

Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of June 29) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

A Franklin’s gull continues at Race Point in Provincetown, where other birds included a royal tern, 9 black-legged kittiwakes, 420 Bonaparte’s gulls, 3 little gulls, a black tern, and 2 Arctic terns.

A small-boat pelagic birding trip to the waters East of Chatham produced 300 Cory’s shearwaters, 1,200 great shearwaters, 3,500 Sooty shearwaters, 2 Manx shearwaters, 125 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 2 pomarine jaegers, 3 parasitic jaegers, a razorbill, and 3 lesser black-backed gulls.

A report from Monomoy and South Beach in Chatham included 11 American oystercatchers, 65 black-bellied plovers, 41 piping plovers, 40 red knots, and 9 short-billed dowitchers.

Other birds around the Cape included a clay-colored sparrow at Camp Edwards, a worm-eating warbler at Santuit Pond in Mashpee, a continuing yellow-crowned night-heron at Long Pasture sanctuary in Cummaquid, a continuing least bittern in West Harwich, and a grasshopper sparrow in North Truro.

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.