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This Week’s Bird Sightings

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Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, June 4 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

A sighting in Dennis deserves a mention here this week: An American Flamingo was seen at Chapin Beach on Sunday, with multiple observers getting photos of what Mark Faherty in the Audubon’s report calls an “incredible rarity” that he writes must be the same Flamingo that was seen on Long Island, N.Y. on Friday and Saturday.

The American Flamingo is native to the West Indies, northern South America, and the Yucatán Peninsula. They are the most colorful of the world’s six flamingo species, and though they once were present in South Florida they were rarely again seen there or anywhere in the U.S. after they were nearly wiped out by feather-chasing plume hunters by the early 1900s, according to the American Bird Conservancy. But 2023, after Hurricane Idalia, was a “banner year” for sightings, the conservancy reports: at least 150 Flamingos were reported in 14 states, including Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. (Photo by Ernesto Gomez/USFWS)

 

A Franklin’s Gull passed Race Point in Provincetown on June 1, and other sightings there this week included a Glaucous Gull, a Common Murre, and 2 Black Guillemots. A Yellow-Breasted Chat and a White-Crowned Sparrow were seen at Provincetown Airport.

A Red Crossbill was seen in North Truro.

There was a Pine Siskin in Wellfleet this week.

A single Mississippi Kite and a Cliff Swallow were seen in Eastham.

If you have questions about these sightings or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send an email to [email protected].

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