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Bird sightings on Cape Cod

Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of Dec. 20) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

Highlights from the Buzzards Bay Christmas Bird Count included a sedge wren in Sandwich, a king eider in Falmouth, and a rufous hummingbird continuing at a private feeder in Falmouth.

The 85th annual Cape Cod Christmas Bird Count, which extends from Harwich to Eastham, tallied 115 species, with highlights including the continuing lark sparrow from Fort Hill in Eastham, a Northern goshawk and a red knot in Orleans, a late Baltimore oriole in Harwich, 4 yellow-breasted chats in Chatham, and a black-headed gull and a snowy owl at Nauset Beach.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a pomarine jaeger, 18 common murres, 250 razorbills, 17 black-legged kittiwakes, 175 Bonaparte’s gulls, a little gull, 2 Iceland gulls, a peregrine falcon, 5 snow buntings, and a Lapland longspur.

Sightings from Scusset Beach State Reservation in Sandwich included a rough-legged hawk, 2 common ravens, and an “Oregon’’ dark-eyed junco.

Other sightings around the Cape included an “Oregon’’ dark-eyed junco in Mashpee, a laughing gull and a greater yellowlegs at Gray’s Beach in Yarmouth, a blue-winged teal in Orleans, and 7 laughing gulls, a Manx shearwater, and a black guillemot at Head of the Meadow in 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.