Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of May 1) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

Sightings from Race Point in Provincetown included a mix of lingering winter birds like Pacific loon, Iceland gulls, and snowy owl, along with new spring arrivals like parasitic jaegers, common terns, a roseate tern, and sooty shearwaters. Other species included a black-headed gull, a Thayer’s type Iceland gull, and a mew gull.

Newly arrived migrants included green herons, willets, broad-winged hawks, Baltimore and orchard orioles, Eastern kingbirds, house wrens, gray catbirds, Eastern towhees, and various warblers, including ovenbirds, prairie warblers, Northern parulas, American redstarts, and black-and-white warblers.

Other sightings around the Cape included a hooded warbler in Pocasset and another at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, snow goose in Hyannisport, a sora and a barred owl in Cotuit, a continuing least bittern and a short-billed dowitcher at Bell’s Neck conservation area in West Harwich, 21 common murres in the center of Cape Cod Bay, and lingering snowy owls in Wellfleet, Provincetown, and Chatham.

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.