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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 25 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

A Franklin’s Gull was seen again at Race Point in Provincetown, where other sightings included a White-Rumped Sandpiper, two Royal Terns, an Arctic Tern, a Black Tern, and 22 Roseate Terns.

Here’s how the White-Rumped Sandpiper tries to woo his mate, according to the people at the Cornell Bird Lab: They fly nearly 100 feet off the ground, begin hovering, and produce their unusual song, which resembles “the sound of pig oinks punctuated by a typewriter carriage return.” Then, “if a female is present, the male raises a single wing toward her while standing on the ground or executes a more elaborate display in which he opens the wing in a cupped position, cocks the tail, and displays the white uppertail coverts while running around her, stamping his feet, and sometimes dragging the wingtips on the ground.” (Photo by Dario Niz/Wikimedia Commons 3.0)

There was a Chuck-Will’s-Widow at Nauset Light Beach 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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