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Bird sightings

Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

Geese continued to dominate last week’s list of unusual species, with a Ross’s goose along with a tufted duck in Nantucket, a cackling goose and a greater white-fronted goose among a large flock of Canada geese on the fields adjacent to the Bristol County Agricultural High School in Dighton, and five greater white-fronted geese at Sconticut Neck in Fairhaven. In South Dartmouth a Townsend’s solitaire continues to be present at Demarest Lloyd State Park.

Cape Ann: Interesting reports last week included 90 harlequin ducks, an Iceland gull, and three thick-billed murres in the area near Halibut Point, Andrews Point, and Granite Pier. At Bass Rocks in Gloucester there were 30 purple sandpipers, a dovekie, a razorbill, and two black guillemots.

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Plum Island: Most notable at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge last week were a rough-legged hawk, two snowy owls, and a short-eared owl.

West Roxbury: At Millennium Park were an Iceland gull, a lesser black-backed gull, two glaucous gulls, and 45 fish crows.

Miscellaneous: Reports included two snow geese in Clinton; five northern shovelers in Nantucket; a Barrow’s goldeneye, two Iceland gulls, and two peregrine falcons at Deer Island in Boston Harbor; a red-shouldered hawk at Belle Isle in East Boston; a lesser black-backed gull at the Needham Transfer Station; a glaucous gull at Revere Beach; and single snowy owls in Somerville, Gooseberry Neck in Westport, and Angelica Rock in Fairhaven.


For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.mass-audubon.org.