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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 October 20, 2025

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Snow Goose 551 
Ross's Goose 14 
Greater White-fronted Goose 26 
Brant 1266 
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose 7225 
Mute Swan 4485 
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck 472 
Blue-winged Teal 1343 
Northern Shoveler 1469 
Gadwall 5831 
Eurasian Wigeon 301 
American Wigeon 2054 
Mallard 7017 
American Black Duck 6993 
Northern Pintail 3465 
Green-winged Teal 5191 
Canvasback 21 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Redhead 153 
Ring-necked Duck 385 
Greater Scaup 1220 
Lesser Scaup 776 
King Eider 122 
Common Eider 4535 
Harlequin Duck 59 
Surf Scoter 2107 
White-winged Scoter 4325 
Black Scoter 3330 
Long-tailed Duck 3407 
Bufflehead 3172 
Common Goldeneye 2448 
Barrow's Goldeneye 35 
Hooded Merganser 2313 
Common Merganser 484 
Red-breasted Merganser 3789 
Ruddy Duck 645 
Wild Turkey 2606 
Ring-necked Pheasant 85 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pied-billed Grebe 955 
Horned Grebe 2659 
Red-necked Grebe 1616 
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe 71 
Rock Pigeon 4687 
Ringed Turtle-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove 6021 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 302 
Black-billed Cuckoo 389 
Common Nighthawk 96 
Chuck-will's-widow
Eastern Whip-poor-will 385 
Chimney Swift 710 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 803 
King Rail 188 
Clapper Rail 150 
Virginia Rail 819 
Sora 528 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Gallinule 181 
American Coot 599 
Purple Gallinule
Black Rail 18 
Sandhill Crane
Black-necked Stilt 21 
American Avocet 252 
American Oystercatcher 92 
Northern Lapwing
Black-bellied Plover 3705 
American Golden-Plover 728 
Pacific Golden-Plover
Killdeer 3905 
Common Ringed Plover
Semipalmated Plover 3217 
Piping Plover 2393 
Wilson's Plover
Upland Sandpiper 22 
Whimbrel 792 
Black-tailed Godwit 11 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hudsonian Godwit 403 
Marbled Godwit 100 
Ruddy Turnstone 1006 
Red Knot 846 
Ruff 26 
Stilt Sandpiper 1116 
Curlew Sandpiper 26 
Red-necked Stint
Sanderling 3362 
Dunlin 3235 
Purple Sandpiper 491 
Baird's Sandpiper 391 
Least Sandpiper 2574 
White-rumped Sandpiper 2251 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 217 
Pectoral Sandpiper 1067 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3213 
Western Sandpiper 368 
Short-billed Dowitcher 2412 
Long-billed Dowitcher 1030 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Woodcock 881 
Wilson's Snipe 451 
Spotted Sandpiper 1732 
Solitary Sandpiper 276 
Lesser Yellowlegs 2959 
Willet 2516 
Greater Yellowlegs 4801 
Wilson's Phalarope 260 
Red-necked Phalarope 45 
Red Phalarope 30 
Pomarine Jaeger 12 
Parasitic Jaeger 62 
Long-tailed Jaeger
Dovekie 54 
Common Murre 19 
Thick-billed Murre 45 
Razorbill 1115 
Black Guillemot 244 
Atlantic Puffin
Black-legged Kittiwake 405 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Sabine's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull 1732 
Black-headed Gull 40 
Little Gull 125 
Laughing Gull 996 
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull 5472 
Herring Gull 7282 
Iceland Gull 159 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 284 
Glaucous Gull 52 
Great Black-backed Gull 6792 
Least Tern 2350 
Gull-billed Tern 44 
Caspian Tern 195 
Black Tern 155 
Roseate Tern 625 
Common Tern 2652 
Arctic Tern 40 
Forster's Tern 325 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Royal Tern 40 
Sandwich Tern
Elegant Tern
Black Skimmer 85 
Red-throated Loon 2780 
Pacific Loon 17 
Common Loon 5032 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 172 
Leach's Storm-Petrel 11 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater 87 
Sooty Shearwater 25 
Great Shearwater 58 
Manx Shearwater 76 
Northern Gannet 2634 
Great Cormorant 852 
Double-crested Cormorant 5168 
Neotropic Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Bittern 790 
Least Bittern 1039 
Great Blue Heron 4556 
Great Egret 4826 
Little Egret
Snowy Egret 3932 
Little Blue Heron 230 
Tricolored Heron 297 
Cattle Egret 27 
Green Heron 418 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1923 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 420 
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis 1140 
White-faced Ibis 23 
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture 2570 
Osprey 3780 
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier 5783 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1153 
Cooper's Hawk 2069 
Northern Goshawk 44 
Bald Eagle 2245 
Mississippi Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk 80 
Broad-winged Hawk 78 
Swainson's Hawk 11 
Red-tailed Hawk 2931 
Rough-legged Hawk 1511 
Eastern Screech-Owl 12 
Great Horned Owl 386 
Snowy Owl 1524 
Barred Owl 286 
Long-eared Owl 33 
Short-eared Owl 702 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 43 
Belted Kingfisher 1089 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 530 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 640 
Downy Woodpecker 4513 
Hairy Woodpecker 696 
Northern Flicker 2843 
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel 1098 
Merlin 2396 
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon 2956 
Prairie Falcon
Monk Parakeet
Ash-throated Flycatcher 13 
Great Crested Flycatcher 1351 
Western Kingbird 43 
Eastern Kingbird 2798 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 26 
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher 96 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 631 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 211 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Acadian Flycatcher 16 
Alder Flycatcher 446 
Willow Flycatcher 1739 
Least Flycatcher 433 
Eastern Phoebe 2236 
Say's Phoebe
White-eyed Vireo 127 
Yellow-throated Vireo 110 
Blue-headed Vireo 870 
Philadelphia Vireo 285 
Warbling Vireo 384 
Red-eyed Vireo 1934 
Yellow-green Vireo
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike 778 
Blue Jay 6100 
American Crow 6751 
Fish Crow 303 
Common Raven 1194 
Black-capped Chickadee 6862 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Tufted Titmouse 699 
Horned Lark 1733 
Bank Swallow 1433 
Tree Swallow 3938 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 258 
Purple Martin 2440 
Barn Swallow 2921 
Cliff Swallow 166 
Cave Swallow 11 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1467 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1667 
Bohemian Waxwing 18 
Cedar Waxwing 3696 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2469 
White-breasted Nuthatch 964 
Brown Creeper 766 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 429 
House Wren 837 
Winter Wren 251 
Sedge Wren
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Marsh Wren 3191 
Carolina Wren 1623 
Gray Catbird 4616 
Brown Thrasher 3374 
Sage Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird 6582 
European Starling 6125 
Eastern Bluebird 69 
Townsend's Solitaire
Veery 416 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 52 
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 479 
Hermit Thrush 1870 
Wood Thrush 207 
American Robin 7153 
Northern Wheatear
House Sparrow 5103 
American Pipit 747 
Evening Grosbeak 16 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pine Grosbeak 17 
House Finch 4295 
Purple Finch 3149 
Common Redpoll 353 
Hoary Redpoll 16 
Red Crossbill 218 
White-winged Crossbill 148 
Pine Siskin 392 
American Goldfinch 5567 
Lapland Longspur 382 
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Snow Bunting 1313 
Grasshopper Sparrow 25 
Lark Sparrow 76 
Lark Bunting
Chipping Sparrow 1378 
Clay-colored Sparrow 253 
Field Sparrow 2383 
Fox Sparrow 312 
American Tree Sparrow 2820 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Dark-eyed Junco 2336 
White-crowned Sparrow 692 
White-throated Sparrow 3480 
Vesper Sparrow 58 
Seaside Sparrow 1040 
Nelson's Sparrow 167 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 2283 
Savannah Sparrow 3276 
Song Sparrow 6765 
Lincoln's Sparrow 294 
Swamp Sparrow 2515 
Green-tailed Towhee 12 
Eastern Towhee 4204 
Yellow-breasted Chat 110 
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bobolink 2499 
Eastern Meadowlark 636 
Western Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole 1051 
Baltimore Oriole 2314 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Red-winged Blackbird 4407 
Brown-headed Cowbird 2423 
Rusty Blackbird 115 
Common Grackle 3855 
Ovenbird 627 
Worm-eating Warbler 32 
Louisiana Waterthrush 10 
Northern Waterthrush 709 
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler 120 
Black-and-white Warbler 1173 
Prothonotary Warbler 21 
Swainson's Warbler
Tennessee Warbler 205 
Orange-crowned Warbler 135 
Nashville Warbler 608 
Connecticut Warbler 73 
Mourning Warbler 182 
Kentucky Warbler 21 
Common Yellowthroat 3093 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hooded Warbler 62 
American Redstart 2207 
Cape May Warbler 310 
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula 994 
Magnolia Warbler 896 
Bay-breasted Warbler 379 
Blackburnian Warbler 475 
Yellow Warbler 2730 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 536 
Blackpoll Warbler 1025 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 806 
Palm Warbler 965 
Pine Warbler 774 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2940 
Yellow-throated Warbler 11 
Prairie Warbler 366 
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler 967 
Canada Warbler 433 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Wilson's Warbler 616 
Summer Tanager 48 
Scarlet Tanager 415 
Western Tanager
Northern Cardinal 6264 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 699 
Blue Grosbeak 20 
Indigo Bunting 174 
Dickcissel 168 

October 20, 2025, Tom Wetmore