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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, May 6 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown this week included 8 American Oystercatchers, a Razorbill, a Common Murre, a Parasitic Jaeger, a Glaucous Gull, a Least Tern, 7 Roseate Terns, 56 Common Terns, 3 Manx Shearwaters, and 125 Northern Gannets.

“Let’s chat about chats,” write the people who as of April were still left posting on social media at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Don’t tell Elon, but they’re still using Latin over there, too: “Yellow-breasted chats are such a distinctive and unique species that they are the only members of their taxonomic family, Icteriidae. They can be found throughout most of the continental U.S., but you’re way more likely to hear them calling than see them. They like to hang out deep within vegetation, so listen for their whistles, cackles, clucks, and gurgles.” (Photo by Mick Thompson/CC BY-NC)

A Yellow-Breasted Chat was seen in North Truro.

A single Summer Tanager was reported at a feeder in Wellfleet this week. Also, there was an American Bittern at Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary.

The Pacific Loon on Great Pond in Eastham was last reported on April 30.

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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