The 33 black skimmers noted on Martha's Vineyard represent a state high count for breeding individuals of this mostly southern species. Birds counted from Race Point included hundreds of Cory's, great, sooty, and Manx shearwaters, 600 Wilson's storm-petrels, 2 long-tailed jaegers, 13 parasitic jaegers, 75 least terns, 6 black terns, 1,600 roseate terns, 2,200 common terns, 2 Arctic terns, 7 Forster's terns, a peregrine falcon, and 700 tree swallows.
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