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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, April 2 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

The Western Kingbird overwintering in Eastham was reported again in neighborhoods north of Salt Pond Visitor Center. Elsewhere in town, there was a Yellow-Breasted Chat.

There was an Orange-Crowned Warbler in Truro and a Northern Waterthrush in North Truro.

Don’t get your hopes up for a songbird dressed like a parrot. Orange-Crowned Warblers are not as flamboyantly colorful as their name implies. In fact, they are “fairly plain yellowish or olive,” according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. And those on the East Coast are grayer than their West Coast counterparts. “The namesake orange crown patch is rarely seen,” the bird folks say, “but may become visible when the bird raises its head feathers in excitement or agitation.” (Photo by Kristine Sowl/USFWS)

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, 3 Common Murres, 9 Iceland Gulls, a Glaucous Gull, 3 Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, 290 Red-Throated Loons, 220 Northern Gannets, and a Lapland Longspur.

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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