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Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings

Below are the most recent sightings from the last four weeks in the Cape Cod area.

If you want to report a sighting, or have questions about these sightings, call Wellfleet Bay at 508-349-2615 or send an email.

The Cape Cod Natural History Hotline is sponsored by the Bird Watcher's General Store in Orleans and Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. 

Recent Sightings

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

At least 2 Swallow-tailed Kites continue in the Cotuit area this week. A Brown Booby and an Atlantic Puffin were seen at Race Point in Provincetown, where other sightings this week included a Pomarine Jaeger, 2500 Common Terns, 200 Roseate Terns, 130 Cory’s Shearwaters, 57 Great Shearwaters, 3 Sooty Shearwaters, and 12 Manx Shearwaters. Surveys of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge tallied [...]

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

At least one Swallow-tailed Kite continues in the Cotuit area this week. Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Black Guillemot, a Black Scoter, 22 Piping Plovers, 3 Whimbrel., 1000 Common Terns, 65 Roseate Terns, 80 Cory’s Shearwaters, 9 Great Shearwaters, [...]

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown this week included 14 Piping Plovers, a Black Guillemot, 2 Parasitic Jaegers, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 Black Terns, 500 Roseate Terns, 1900 Common Terns, an Arctic Tern, 40 Wilson’s Storm-Petrel, 300 Cory’ Shearwaters, [...]

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

A Brown Booby was again seen at Race Point in Provincetown this week. Other sightings at Race Point included a Common Murre, a Little Gull, a Glaucous Gull, 2 Arctic Terns, and a Leach’s Storm-Petrel. Six Swallow-tailed Kites continue near the Cotuit Center [...]

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

A Brown Booby passed Race Point in Provincetown on Saturday. Other sightings at Race Point included a surprise Atlantic Puffin flyby, a Little Gull, a Black Tern, a Glaucous Gull, 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 24 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, [...]

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

At least three Swallow-tailed Kites continue to be seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee and around Cotuit where there were multiple sightings of up to three again this week. Three Mississippi Kites were back in the Centerville neighborhood where they had been feeding on cicadas for a few weeks, [...]

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Amazingly, a White Ibis was found eating cicadas around the parking lot of Mashpee High School on the 20th, representing just the second-ever June record for New England. A rare Say’s Phoebe from the western US was photographed at Bourne Farm in Falmouth, one of just a handful of June/July records [...]

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Swallow-tailed Kites continue to be seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee, but only singletons were seen this week unlike the 3-5 seen in previous weeks. There are now at least three Mississippi Kites hanging around a neighborhood in Centerville eating cicadas. A Hooded Warbler was found at Long Pond in Falmouth on Tuesday. Birds at Crane Wildlife Management Area in Falmouth included 3 Blue Grosbeaks, [...]

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

At least 3 Swallow-tailed Kites continue to be seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee. A Mississippi Kite continues in a neighborhood in Centerville. The Hooded Warbler continues in Whelan Conservation Area in West Barnstable, where a Mississippi Kite was also seen. Early June is when we see interesting flycatchers on the Cape [...]

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