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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 September 8, 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 1262 
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose 7185 
Mute Swan 4477 
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck 467 
Blue-winged Teal 1338 
Northern Shoveler 1467 
Gadwall 5790 
Eurasian Wigeon 296 
American Wigeon 2029 
Mallard 6975 
American Black Duck 6951 
Northern Pintail 3429 
Green-winged Teal 5149 
Canvasback 21 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Redhead 153 
Ring-necked Duck 385 
Greater Scaup 1218 
Lesser Scaup 776 
King Eider 122 
Common Eider 4499 
Harlequin Duck 59 
Surf Scoter 2084 
White-winged Scoter 4293 
Black Scoter 3314 
Long-tailed Duck 3401 
Bufflehead 3171 
Common Goldeneye 2448 
Barrow's Goldeneye 35 
Hooded Merganser 2313 
Common Merganser 484 
Red-breasted Merganser 3779 
Ruddy Duck 645 
Wild Turkey 2569 
Ring-necked Pheasant 85 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pied-billed Grebe 935 
Horned Grebe 2654 
Red-necked Grebe 1615 
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe 71 
Rock Pigeon 4652 
Ringed Turtle-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove 5980 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 302 
Black-billed Cuckoo 389 
Common Nighthawk 96 
Chuck-will's-widow
Eastern Whip-poor-will 381 
Chimney Swift 710 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 798 
King Rail 188 
Clapper Rail 150 
Virginia Rail 816 
Sora 526 
 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 234 
American Oystercatcher 91 
Northern Lapwing
Black-bellied Plover 3664 
American Golden-Plover 701 
Pacific Golden-Plover
Killdeer 3886 
Common Ringed Plover
Semipalmated Plover 3177 
Piping Plover 2384 
Wilson's Plover
Upland Sandpiper 22 
Whimbrel 777 
Black-tailed Godwit 11 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hudsonian Godwit 398 
Marbled Godwit 100 
Ruddy Turnstone 1005 
Red Knot 838 
Ruff 26 
Stilt Sandpiper 1097 
Curlew Sandpiper 26 
Red-necked Stint
Sanderling 3332 
Dunlin 3195 
Purple Sandpiper 491 
Baird's Sandpiper 389 
Least Sandpiper 2547 
White-rumped Sandpiper 2214 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 217 
Pectoral Sandpiper 1040 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3173 
Western Sandpiper 366 
Short-billed Dowitcher 2389 
Long-billed Dowitcher 1011 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Woodcock 876 
Wilson's Snipe 451 
Spotted Sandpiper 1722 
Solitary Sandpiper 275 
Lesser Yellowlegs 2924 
Willet 2513 
Greater Yellowlegs 4759 
Wilson's Phalarope 257 
Red-necked Phalarope 44 
Red Phalarope 30 
Pomarine Jaeger 12 
Parasitic Jaeger 62 
Long-tailed Jaeger
Dovekie 54 
Common Murre 19 
Thick-billed Murre 45 
Razorbill 1114 
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 1725 
Black-headed Gull 40 
Little Gull 125 
Laughing Gull 981 
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull 5430 
Herring Gull 7240 
Iceland Gull 158 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 276 
Glaucous Gull 52 
Great Black-backed Gull 6750 
Least Tern 2350 
Gull-billed Tern 44 
Caspian Tern 191 
Black Tern 155 
Roseate Tern 625 
Common Tern 2644 
Arctic Tern 40 
Forster's Tern 322 
 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 2768 
Pacific Loon 17 
Common Loon 4994 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 172 
Leach's Storm-Petrel 11 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater 86 
Sooty Shearwater 25 
Great Shearwater 58 
Manx Shearwater 76 
Northern Gannet 2609 
Great Cormorant 851 
Double-crested Cormorant 5126 
Neotropic Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Bittern 787 
Least Bittern 1039 
Great Blue Heron 4515 
Great Egret 4784 
Little Egret
Snowy Egret 3890 
Little Blue Heron 224 
Tricolored Heron 288 
Cattle Egret 27 
Green Heron 418 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1910 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 417 
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis 1137 
White-faced Ibis 23 
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture 2542 
Osprey 3760 
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier 5742 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1143 
Cooper's Hawk 2040 
Northern Goshawk 44 
Bald Eagle 2238 
Mississippi Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk 80 
Broad-winged Hawk 78 
Swainson's Hawk 11 
Red-tailed Hawk 2921 
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 1063 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 513 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 620 
Downy Woodpecker 4474 
Hairy Woodpecker 682 
Northern Flicker 2802 
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel 1097 
Merlin 2365 
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon 2924 
Prairie Falcon
Monk Parakeet
Ash-throated Flycatcher 13 
Great Crested Flycatcher 1347 
Western Kingbird 40 
Eastern Kingbird 2794 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 26 
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher 96 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 630 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 210 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Acadian Flycatcher 16 
Alder Flycatcher 446 
Willow Flycatcher 1738 
Least Flycatcher 427 
Eastern Phoebe 2201 
Say's Phoebe
White-eyed Vireo 126 
Yellow-throated Vireo 110 
Blue-headed Vireo 850 
Philadelphia Vireo 270 
Warbling Vireo 380 
Red-eyed Vireo 1904 
Yellow-green Vireo
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike 778 
Blue Jay 6058 
American Crow 6715 
Fish Crow 303 
Common Raven 1169 
Black-capped Chickadee 6821 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Tufted Titmouse 690 
Horned Lark 1728 
Bank Swallow 1433 
Tree Swallow 3909 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 258 
Purple Martin 2440 
Barn Swallow 2910 
Cliff Swallow 166 
Cave Swallow 11 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1447 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1639 
Bohemian Waxwing 18 
Cedar Waxwing 3657 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2431 
White-breasted Nuthatch 953 
Brown Creeper 741 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 424 
House Wren 828 
Winter Wren 245 
Sedge Wren
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Marsh Wren 3165 
Carolina Wren 1586 
Gray Catbird 4575 
Brown Thrasher 3342 
Sage Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird 6541 
European Starling 6086 
Eastern Bluebird 67 
Townsend's Solitaire
Veery 413 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 52 
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 471 
Hermit Thrush 1858 
Wood Thrush 207 
American Robin 7111 
Northern Wheatear
House Sparrow 5071 
American Pipit 724 
Evening Grosbeak 16 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pine Grosbeak 17 
House Finch 4259 
Purple Finch 3125 
Common Redpoll 353 
Hoary Redpoll 16 
Red Crossbill 218 
White-winged Crossbill 148 
Pine Siskin 386 
American Goldfinch 5529 
Lapland Longspur 380 
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Snow Bunting 1313 
Grasshopper Sparrow 25 
Lark Sparrow 76 
Lark Bunting
Chipping Sparrow 1357 
Clay-colored Sparrow 239 
Field Sparrow 2364 
Fox Sparrow 312 
American Tree Sparrow 2820 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Dark-eyed Junco 2307 
White-crowned Sparrow 676 
White-throated Sparrow 3447 
Vesper Sparrow 57 
Seaside Sparrow 1039 
Nelson's Sparrow 161 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 2255 
Savannah Sparrow 3240 
Song Sparrow 6723 
Lincoln's Sparrow 278 
Swamp Sparrow 2490 
Green-tailed Towhee 12 
Eastern Towhee 4162 
Yellow-breasted Chat 108 
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bobolink 2489 
Eastern Meadowlark 634 
Western Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole 1051 
Baltimore Oriole 2297 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Red-winged Blackbird 4382 
Brown-headed Cowbird 2421 
Rusty Blackbird 115 
Common Grackle 3840 
Ovenbird 626 
Worm-eating Warbler 32 
Louisiana Waterthrush 10 
Northern Waterthrush 708 
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler 120 
Black-and-white Warbler 1153 
Prothonotary Warbler 17 
Swainson's Warbler
Tennessee Warbler 196 
Orange-crowned Warbler 131 
Nashville Warbler 593 
Connecticut Warbler 67 
Mourning Warbler 180 
Kentucky Warbler 21 
Common Yellowthroat 3064 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hooded Warbler 62 
American Redstart 2188 
Cape May Warbler 294 
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula 972 
Magnolia Warbler 872 
Bay-breasted Warbler 367 
Blackburnian Warbler 470 
Yellow Warbler 2718 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 531 
Blackpoll Warbler 1007 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 788 
Palm Warbler 947 
Pine Warbler 772 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2908 
Yellow-throated Warbler 11 
Prairie Warbler 363 
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler 948 
Canada Warbler 431 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Wilson's Warbler 605 
Summer Tanager 46 
Scarlet Tanager 411 
Western Tanager
Northern Cardinal 6224 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 696 
Blue Grosbeak 16 
Indigo Bunting 170 
Dickcissel 159 

September 8, 2025, Tom Wetmore