A male spotted towhee has a black head, back and tail with a white belly, orange-red sides and multiple white wing marks. “I think that the first thing people notice is their sides,” David ...

The ferruginous hawk continued at Morris Island in Chatham, where other sightings included a semipalmated plover, 12 black-bellied plovers, 200 dunlin, and 8 Northern harriers.

The spotted towhee and a lingering prairie warbler continued at the Provincetown Airport, and the black-chinned hummingbird and Western tanager continued elsewhere in Provincetown. A very late ...