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This Week’s Bird Sightings

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This Week’s Bird Sightings

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 7 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included 2 Pacific Loons, 480 Sanderlings, 280 Dunlins, 30 Common Murres, a Thick-Billed Murre, 190 Razorbills, 150 Black-Legged Kittiwakes, 39 Iceland Gulls, a Glaucous Gull, and an American Pipit.

The Cornell Bird Lab calls American Pipits “inconspicuous as they walk briskly through tundra or agricultural fields.” The time to see them here is in winter, but they’re hard to spot because they blend in well with grasses and the sandy and muddy margins where they like eating aquatic insects and the occasional tiny crustacean. (Photo by Sara Germain/USFWS)

There was a Eurasian Green-Winged Teal in North Truro.

And a single Marsh Wren in Eastham.

And 15 Red Crossbills in South Wellfleet.

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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