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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 Monday, July 1 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

Three Sandwich Terns were photographed passing Race Point in Provincetown, where other sightings included a Caspian Tern, a Royal Tern, 2 Arctic Terns, a Wilson’s Storm-Petrel, 11 Cory’s Shearwaters, 6 Great Shearwaters, a Sooty Shearwater, and 7 Manx Shearwaters.

Royal Terns have some interesting ways with food. During courtship, according to the Cornell Bird Lab experts, the male will often give the female a fish in midair, or, on land, “males present interested females with a small fish, crab, or shrimp, while calling, then bow to the females, raising the crest.” Later, the Cornell ornithologists go on to say, “Both parents feed their chick well after it fledges and accompany it south to wintering areas, where young birds may still beg food from a parent 8 months or more after hatching.” (Photo by Ernesto Gomez/USFWS)

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

A Pomarine Jaeger and two Cliff Swallows were seen on the other side of Nauset Beach in Orleans. 

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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