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

In Provincetown, yes, the long-staying Spotted Towhee is at the airport. Also, the Sandhill Crane continued in the West End marshes. A Black Vulture was seen over the same marshes, and a Thick-Billed Murre is still drawing birders to MacMillan Pier.

Birds at Race Point this week included a Pacific Loon, a Northern Pintail, a Thick-Billed Murre, a Common Murre, 28 Razorbills, and 38 Iceland Gulls.

The Bald Eagle is our national bird and was given its place of honor on the seal of the United States in 1782. William Barton, one of the designers of the seal, wrote that the eagle is “the symbol of supreme power and authority, and signifies congress,” and that “the olive branch and arrows that it holds in its talons are the powers of peace and war,” according to the Library of Congress. The American Bird Conservancy write-up on this bird says that it belongs to a group of fish- and carrion-eating raptors known as sea-eagles, which are “adept kleptoparasites, stealing the catches of other birds such as the Osprey.” (Photo by Peter Davis/USFWS)

There was a Bald Eagle in Truro.

There was an Ovenbird in Wellfleet.

2 Long-Billed Dowitchers and a Barrow’s Goldeneye were seen in Nauset Marsh in Eastham, while 6 American Pipits and a Black-Headed Gull showed up elsewhere in town.

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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