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Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore


This table shows the quarter-month status of the birds of Plum Island. It is based on my own data and on data collected for inclusion on the Plum Island sigthings web site.


Quarter-Month Status of the Birds of Plum Island — updated July 26, 2024

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Snow Goose 517 
Ross's Goose 14 
Greater White-fronted Goose 26 
Brant 1179 
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose 6788 
Mute Swan 4209 
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck 444 
Blue-winged Teal 1283 
Northern Shoveler 1417 
Gadwall 5464 
Eurasian Wigeon 283 
American Wigeon 1939 
Mallard 6580 
American Black Duck 6570 
Northern Pintail 3245 
Green-winged Teal 4840 
Canvasback 21 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Redhead 153 
Ring-necked Duck 378 
Greater Scaup 1150 
Lesser Scaup 737 
King Eider 117 
Common Eider 4155 
Harlequin Duck 58 
Surf Scoter 1922 
White-winged Scoter 4063 
Black Scoter 3064 
Long-tailed Duck 3198 
Bufflehead 2995 
Common Goldeneye 2309 
Barrow's Goldeneye 35 
Hooded Merganser 2179 
Common Merganser 462 
Red-breasted Merganser 3565 
Ruddy Duck 624 
Wild Turkey 2364 
Ring-necked Pheasant 85 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pied-billed Grebe 899 
Horned Grebe 2510 
Red-necked Grebe 1531 
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe 71 
Rock Pigeon 4372 
Ringed Turtle-Dove
Mourning Dove 5615 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 288 
Black-billed Cuckoo 363 
Common Nighthawk 90 
Chuck-will's-widow
Eastern Whip-poor-will 348 
Chimney Swift 654 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 729 
King Rail 182 
Clapper Rail 108 
Virginia Rail 791 
Sora 507 
Common Gallinule 176 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Coot 560 
Black Rail 18 
Sandhill Crane
Black-necked Stilt 10 
American Avocet 234 
American Oystercatcher 64 
Northern Lapwing
Black-bellied Plover 3455 
American Golden-Plover 634 
Pacific Golden-Plover
Killdeer 3632 
Common Ringed Plover
Semipalmated Plover 2953 
Piping Plover 2219 
Wilson's Plover
Upland Sandpiper 19 
Whimbrel 727 
Black-tailed Godwit 11 
Hudsonian Godwit 385 
Marbled Godwit 100 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ruddy Turnstone 928 
Red Knot 786 
Ruff 18 
Stilt Sandpiper 998 
Curlew Sandpiper 26 
Red-necked Stint
Sanderling 3081 
Dunlin 2977 
Purple Sandpiper 474 
Baird's Sandpiper 374 
Least Sandpiper 2370 
White-rumped Sandpiper 2054 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 211 
Pectoral Sandpiper 984 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2962 
Western Sandpiper 359 
Short-billed Dowitcher 2228 
Long-billed Dowitcher 889 
American Woodcock 842 
Wilson's Snipe 422 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Spotted Sandpiper 1598 
Solitary Sandpiper 254 
Lesser Yellowlegs 2734 
Willet 2344 
Greater Yellowlegs 4479 
Wilson's Phalarope 245 
Red-necked Phalarope 39 
Red Phalarope 30 
Pomarine Jaeger 12 
Parasitic Jaeger 59 
Long-tailed Jaeger
Dovekie 53 
Common Murre 18 
Thick-billed Murre 43 
Razorbill 1042 
Black Guillemot 147 
Atlantic Puffin
Black-legged Kittiwake 403 
Sabine's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull 1645 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-headed Gull 40 
Little Gull 124 
Laughing Gull 846 
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull 5094 
Herring Gull 6841 
Iceland Gull 154 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 233 
Glaucous Gull 51 
Great Black-backed Gull 6371 
Least Tern 2203 
Gull-billed Tern 44 
Caspian Tern 181 
Black Tern 148 
Roseate Tern 558 
Common Tern 2459 
Arctic Tern 34 
Forster's Tern 283 
Royal Tern 40 
Sandwich Tern
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Elegant Tern
Black Skimmer 83 
Red-throated Loon 2617 
Pacific Loon 17 
Common Loon 4662 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 159 
Leach's Storm-Petrel 11 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater 46 
Sooty Shearwater 22 
Great Shearwater 54 
Manx Shearwater 68 
Northern Gannet 2439 
Great Cormorant 810 
Double-crested Cormorant 4821 
Neotropic Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
American Bittern 772 
Least Bittern 936 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Great Blue Heron 4229 
Great Egret 4505 
Little Egret
Snowy Egret 3655 
Little Blue Heron 217 
Tricolored Heron 264 
Cattle Egret 27 
Green Heron 402 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1755 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 354 
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis 1048 
White-faced Ibis 22 
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture 2371 
Osprey 3505 
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier 5416 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1087 
Cooper's Hawk 1900 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Goshawk 44 
Bald Eagle 2077 
Mississippi Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk 68 
Broad-winged Hawk 58 
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk 2785 
Rough-legged Hawk 1481 
Eastern Screech-Owl 12 
Great Horned Owl 378 
Snowy Owl 1476 
Barred Owl 217 
Long-eared Owl 33 
Short-eared Owl 646 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 43 
Belted Kingfisher 988 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 485 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 581 
Downy Woodpecker 4170 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hairy Woodpecker 623 
Northern Flicker 2549 
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel 1054 
Merlin 2191 
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon 2748 
Prairie Falcon
Monk Parakeet
Ash-throated Flycatcher 13 
Great Crested Flycatcher 1211 
Western Kingbird 40 
Eastern Kingbird 2621 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 25 
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher 91 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 555 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 195 
Acadian Flycatcher 16 
Alder Flycatcher 411 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Willow Flycatcher 1631 
Least Flycatcher 396 
Eastern Phoebe 2071 
Say's Phoebe
White-eyed Vireo 118 
Yellow-throated Vireo 106 
Blue-headed Vireo 805 
Philadelphia Vireo 262 
Warbling Vireo 356 
Red-eyed Vireo 1739 
Yellow-green Vireo
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike 765 
Blue Jay 5685 
American Crow 6398 
Fish Crow 240 
Common Raven 1003 
Black-capped Chickadee 6428 
Tufted Titmouse 630 
Horned Lark 1666 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bank Swallow 1362 
Tree Swallow 3686 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 242 
Purple Martin 2285 
Barn Swallow 2716 
Cliff Swallow 159 
Cave Swallow 10 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1382 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1540 
Bohemian Waxwing 17 
Cedar Waxwing 3455 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2261 
White-breasted Nuthatch 805 
Brown Creeper 699 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 377 
House Wren 734 
Winter Wren 233 
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren 2966 
Carolina Wren 1366 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Gray Catbird 4314 
Brown Thrasher 3151 
Sage Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird 6172 
European Starling 5734 
Eastern Bluebird 60 
Townsend's Solitaire
Veery 394 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 50 
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 442 
Hermit Thrush 1725 
Wood Thrush 192 
American Robin 6712 
Northern Wheatear
House Sparrow 4725 
American Pipit 686 
Evening Grosbeak 16 
Pine Grosbeak 17 
House Finch 3934 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Purple Finch 2953 
Common Redpoll 352 
Hoary Redpoll 16 
Red Crossbill 218 
White-winged Crossbill 140 
Pine Siskin 363 
American Goldfinch 5195 
Lapland Longspur 370 
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Snow Bunting 1262 
Grasshopper Sparrow 25 
Lark Sparrow 75 
Chipping Sparrow 1259 
Clay-colored Sparrow 228 
Field Sparrow 2240 
Fox Sparrow 294 
American Tree Sparrow 2680 
Dark-eyed Junco 2162 
White-crowned Sparrow 652 
White-throated Sparrow 3269 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Vesper Sparrow 53 
Seaside Sparrow 967 
Nelson's Sparrow 136 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 2102 
Savannah Sparrow 3114 
Song Sparrow 6334 
Lincoln's Sparrow 264 
Swamp Sparrow 2270 
Green-tailed Towhee 12 
Eastern Towhee 3893 
Yellow-breasted Chat 98 
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bobolink 2353 
Eastern Meadowlark 620 
Western Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole 960 
Baltimore Oriole 2129 
Red-winged Blackbird 4110 
Brown-headed Cowbird 2299 
Rusty Blackbird 113 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Grackle 3597 
Ovenbird 557 
Worm-eating Warbler 29 
Louisiana Waterthrush 10 
Northern Waterthrush 673 
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler 116 
Black-and-white Warbler 1089 
Prothonotary Warbler 17 
Swainson's Warbler
Tennessee Warbler 186 
Orange-crowned Warbler 118 
Nashville Warbler 559 
Connecticut Warbler 65 
Mourning Warbler 168 
Kentucky Warbler 21 
Common Yellowthroat 2861 
Hooded Warbler 61 
American Redstart 2019 
Cape May Warbler 268 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula 918 
Magnolia Warbler 826 
Bay-breasted Warbler 340 
Blackburnian Warbler 450 
Yellow Warbler 2541 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 499 
Blackpoll Warbler 953 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 747 
Palm Warbler 900 
Pine Warbler 757 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2805 
Yellow-throated Warbler 10 
Prairie Warbler 338 
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler 908 
Canada Warbler 413 
Wilson's Warbler 580 
Summer Tanager 45 
Scarlet Tanager 384 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Western Tanager
Northern Cardinal 5836 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 621 
Blue Grosbeak 16 
Indigo Bunting 159 
Dickcissel 144 

July 26, 2024, Tom Wetmore