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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 1, 2023

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Snow Goose 510 
Ross's Goose 14 
Greater White-fronted Goose 26 
Brant 1115 
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose 6495 
Mute Swan 3955 
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck 437 
Blue-winged Teal 1257 
Northern Shoveler 1312 
Gadwall 5181 
Eurasian Wigeon 281 
American Wigeon 1842 
Mallard 6288 
American Black Duck 6285 
Northern Pintail 3049 
Green-winged Teal 4580 
Canvasback 21 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Redhead 153 
Ring-necked Duck 363 
Greater Scaup 983 
Lesser Scaup 589 
King Eider 116 
Common Eider 3915 
Harlequin Duck 57 
Surf Scoter 1764 
White-winged Scoter 3853 
Black Scoter 2867 
Long-tailed Duck 2988 
Bufflehead 2804 
Common Goldeneye 2162 
Barrow's Goldeneye 35 
Hooded Merganser 2029 
Common Merganser 413 
Red-breasted Merganser 3352 
Ruddy Duck 537 
Wild Turkey 2277 
Ring-necked Pheasant 84 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pied-billed Grebe 830 
Horned Grebe 2337 
Red-necked Grebe 1454 
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe 71 
Rock Pigeon 4144 
Ringed Turtle-Dove
Mourning Dove 5352 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 281 
Black-billed Cuckoo 343 
Common Nighthawk 90 
Chuck-will's-widow
Eastern Whip-poor-will 326 
Chimney Swift 621 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 699 
King Rail 166 
Clapper Rail 101 
Virginia Rail 734 
Sora 505 
Common Gallinule 140 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Coot 503 
Black Rail 18 
Sandhill Crane
Black-necked Stilt 10 
American Avocet 234 
American Oystercatcher 56 
Northern Lapwing
Black-bellied Plover 3355 
American Golden-Plover 620 
Pacific Golden-Plover
Killdeer 3463 
Common Ringed Plover
Semipalmated Plover 2853 
Piping Plover 2110 
Wilson's Plover
Upland Sandpiper 19 
Whimbrel 720 
Black-tailed Godwit 11 
Hudsonian Godwit 369 
Marbled Godwit 100 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ruddy Turnstone 906 
Red Knot 779 
Ruff 17 
Stilt Sandpiper 969 
Curlew Sandpiper 24 
Red-necked Stint
Sanderling 2927 
Dunlin 2796 
Purple Sandpiper 451 
Baird's Sandpiper 374 
Least Sandpiper 2298 
White-rumped Sandpiper 1989 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 211 
Pectoral Sandpiper 951 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2857 
Western Sandpiper 357 
Short-billed Dowitcher 2172 
Long-billed Dowitcher 859 
American Woodcock 813 
Wilson's Snipe 410 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Spotted Sandpiper 1553 
Solitary Sandpiper 252 
Lesser Yellowlegs 2639 
Willet 2250 
Greater Yellowlegs 4321 
Wilson's Phalarope 242 
Red-necked Phalarope 38 
Red Phalarope 30 
Pomarine Jaeger 11 
Parasitic Jaeger 59 
Long-tailed Jaeger
Dovekie 51 
Common Murre 17 
Thick-billed Murre 43 
Razorbill 969 
Black Guillemot 146 
Atlantic Puffin
Black-legged Kittiwake 401 
Sabine's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull 1605 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-headed Gull 39 
Little Gull 124 
Laughing Gull 837 
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull 4859 
Herring Gull 6548 
Iceland Gull 148 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 224 
Glaucous Gull 49 
Great Black-backed Gull 6087 
Least Tern 2126 
Gull-billed Tern 44 
Caspian Tern 180 
Black Tern 147 
Roseate Tern 520 
Common Tern 2376 
Arctic Tern 33 
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 80 
Red-throated Loon 2444 
Pacific Loon 16 
Common Loon 4406 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 159 
Leach's Storm-Petrel 11 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater 45 
Sooty Shearwater 21 
Great Shearwater 54 
Manx Shearwater 67 
Northern Gannet 2344 
Great Cormorant 796 
Double-crested Cormorant 4624 
Neotropic Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
American Bittern 721 
Least Bittern 879 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Great Blue Heron 4072 
Great Egret 4336 
Little Egret
Snowy Egret 3534 
Little Blue Heron 209 
Tricolored Heron 247 
Cattle Egret 27 
Green Heron 398 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1706 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 344 
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis 1015 
White-faced Ibis 22 
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture 2260 
Osprey 3377 
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier 5174 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1041 
Cooper's Hawk 1791 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Goshawk 44 
Bald Eagle 1928 
Mississippi Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk 67 
Broad-winged Hawk 55 
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk 2642 
Rough-legged Hawk 1446 
Eastern Screech-Owl 12 
Great Horned Owl 373 
Snowy Owl 1476 
Barred Owl 213 
Long-eared Owl 33 
Short-eared Owl 587 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 43 
Belted Kingfisher 917 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 419 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 531 
Downy Woodpecker 3966 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hairy Woodpecker 620 
Northern Flicker 2371 
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel 1019 
Merlin 2102 
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon 2650 
Prairie Falcon
Monk Parakeet
Ash-throated Flycatcher 13 
Great Crested Flycatcher 1134 
Western Kingbird 40 
Eastern Kingbird 2536 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 25 
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher 85 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 501 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 185 
Acadian Flycatcher 16 
Alder Flycatcher 397 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Willow Flycatcher 1559 
Least Flycatcher 377 
Eastern Phoebe 1990 
Say's Phoebe
White-eyed Vireo 103 
Yellow-throated Vireo 105 
Blue-headed Vireo 760 
Philadelphia Vireo 261 
Warbling Vireo 337 
Red-eyed Vireo 1649 
Yellow-green Vireo
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike 763 
Blue Jay 5417 
American Crow 6117 
Fish Crow 207 
Common Raven 855 
Black-capped Chickadee 6137 
Tufted Titmouse 592 
Horned Lark 1574 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bank Swallow 1324 
Tree Swallow 3567 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 232 
Purple Martin 2187 
Barn Swallow 2613 
Cliff Swallow 157 
Cave Swallow 10 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1311 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1421 
Bohemian Waxwing 16 
Cedar Waxwing 3340 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2255 
White-breasted Nuthatch 776 
Brown Creeper 673 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 361 
House Wren 656 
Winter Wren 221 
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren 2819 
Carolina Wren 1185 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Gray Catbird 4112 
Brown Thrasher 3035 
Sage Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird 5887 
European Starling 5473 
Eastern Bluebird 53 
Townsend's Solitaire
Veery 375 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 47 
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 425 
Hermit Thrush 1585 
Wood Thrush 185 
American Robin 6421 
Northern Wheatear
House Sparrow 4485 
American Pipit 641 
Evening Grosbeak 16 
Pine Grosbeak 17 
House Finch 3665 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Purple Finch 2814 
Common Redpoll 352 
Hoary Redpoll 16 
Red Crossbill 211 
White-winged Crossbill 140 
Pine Siskin 330 
American Goldfinch 4933 
Lapland Longspur 360 
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Snow Bunting 1211 
Grasshopper Sparrow 25 
Lark Sparrow 74 
Chipping Sparrow 1198 
Clay-colored Sparrow 223 
Field Sparrow 2113 
Fox Sparrow 282 
American Tree Sparrow 2538 
Dark-eyed Junco 2037 
White-crowned Sparrow 635 
White-throated Sparrow 3055 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Vesper Sparrow 53 
Seaside Sparrow 929 
Nelson's Sparrow 126 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 2016 
Savannah Sparrow 2973 
Song Sparrow 6045 
Lincoln's Sparrow 249 
Swamp Sparrow 2071 
Green-tailed Towhee 12 
Eastern Towhee 3739 
Yellow-breasted Chat 98 
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bobolink 2273 
Eastern Meadowlark 612 
Western Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole 880 
Baltimore Oriole 2046 
Red-winged Blackbird 3885 
Brown-headed Cowbird 2193 
Rusty Blackbird 101 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Grackle 3414 
Ovenbird 516 
Worm-eating Warbler 29 
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush 643 
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler 112 
Black-and-white Warbler 1034 
Prothonotary Warbler 17 
Swainson's Warbler
Tennessee Warbler 172 
Orange-crowned Warbler 104 
Nashville Warbler 530 
Connecticut Warbler 65 
Mourning Warbler 159 
Kentucky Warbler 21 
Common Yellowthroat 2752 
Hooded Warbler 59 
American Redstart 1930 
Cape May Warbler 258 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula 878 
Magnolia Warbler 792 
Bay-breasted Warbler 322 
Blackburnian Warbler 425 
Yellow Warbler 2450 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 474 
Blackpoll Warbler 922 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 715 
Palm Warbler 859 
Pine Warbler 732 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2596 
Yellow-throated Warbler 10 
Prairie Warbler 330 
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler 866 
Canada Warbler 394 
Wilson's Warbler 557 
Summer Tanager 45 
Scarlet Tanager 370 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Western Tanager
Northern Cardinal 5551 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 575 
Blue Grosbeak 13 
Indigo Bunting 150 
Dickcissel 138 

October 1, 2023, Tom Wetmore