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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 April 15, 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 1232 
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose 7041 
Mute Swan 4355 
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck 458 
Blue-winged Teal 1308 
Northern Shoveler 1448 
Gadwall 5644 
Eurasian Wigeon 284 
American Wigeon 2026 
Mallard 6829 
American Black Duck 6820 
Northern Pintail 3425 
Green-winged Teal 5033 
Canvasback 21 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Redhead 153 
Ring-necked Duck 383 
Greater Scaup 1214 
Lesser Scaup 760 
King Eider 121 
Common Eider 4369 
Harlequin Duck 59 
Surf Scoter 2053 
White-winged Scoter 4253 
Black Scoter 3232 
Long-tailed Duck 3352 
Bufflehead 3148 
Common Goldeneye 2444 
Barrow's Goldeneye 35 
Hooded Merganser 2298 
Common Merganser 479 
Red-breasted Merganser 3736 
Ruddy Duck 637 
Wild Turkey 2449 
Ring-necked Pheasant 85 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pied-billed Grebe 932 
Horned Grebe 2649 
Red-necked Grebe 1610 
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe 71 
Rock Pigeon 4570 
Ringed Turtle-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove 5835 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 293 
Black-billed Cuckoo 365 
Common Nighthawk 91 
Chuck-will's-widow
Eastern Whip-poor-will 358 
Chimney Swift 662 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 749 
King Rail 182 
Clapper Rail 110 
Virginia Rail 812 
Sora 525 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Gallinule 176 
American Coot 590 
Black Rail 18 
Sandhill Crane
Black-necked Stilt 10 
American Avocet 234 
American Oystercatcher 68 
Northern Lapwing
Black-bellied Plover 3571 
American Golden-Plover 672 
Pacific Golden-Plover
Killdeer 3749 
Common Ringed Plover
Semipalmated Plover 3063 
Piping Plover 2274 
Wilson's Plover
Upland Sandpiper 20 
Whimbrel 755 
Black-tailed Godwit 11 
Hudsonian Godwit 395 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Marbled Godwit 100 
Ruddy Turnstone 960 
Red Knot 815 
Ruff 18 
Stilt Sandpiper 1050 
Curlew Sandpiper 26 
Red-necked Stint
Sanderling 3257 
Dunlin 3133 
Purple Sandpiper 485 
Baird's Sandpiper 384 
Least Sandpiper 2437 
White-rumped Sandpiper 2137 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 215 
Pectoral Sandpiper 1013 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3059 
Western Sandpiper 363 
Short-billed Dowitcher 2293 
Long-billed Dowitcher 975 
American Woodcock 855 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Wilson's Snipe 446 
Spotted Sandpiper 1648 
Solitary Sandpiper 264 
Lesser Yellowlegs 2808 
Willet 2378 
Greater Yellowlegs 4620 
Wilson's Phalarope 248 
Red-necked Phalarope 41 
Red Phalarope 30 
Pomarine Jaeger 12 
Parasitic Jaeger 60 
Long-tailed Jaeger
Dovekie 54 
Common Murre 19 
Thick-billed Murre 45 
Razorbill 1114 
Black Guillemot 244 
Atlantic Puffin
Black-legged Kittiwake 405 
Sabine's Gull
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bonaparte's Gull 1672 
Black-headed Gull 40 
Little Gull 124 
Laughing Gull 912 
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull 5302 
Herring Gull 7094 
Iceland Gull 157 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 254 
Glaucous Gull 51 
Great Black-backed Gull 6607 
Least Tern 2239 
Gull-billed Tern 44 
Caspian Tern 187 
Black Tern 152 
Roseate Tern 567 
Common Tern 2519 
Arctic Tern 34 
Forster's Tern 316 
Royal Tern 40 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Sandwich Tern
Elegant Tern
Black Skimmer 83 
Red-throated Loon 2735 
Pacific Loon 17 
Common Loon 4888 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 162 
Leach's Storm-Petrel 11 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater 86 
Sooty Shearwater 23 
Great Shearwater 58 
Manx Shearwater 70 
Northern Gannet 2567 
Great Cormorant 849 
Double-crested Cormorant 4980 
Neotropic Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
American Bittern 785 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Least Bittern 967 
Great Blue Heron 4388 
Great Egret 4638 
Little Egret
Snowy Egret 3746 
Little Blue Heron 221 
Tricolored Heron 264 
Cattle Egret 27 
Green Heron 408 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1827 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 392 
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis 1070 
White-faced Ibis 22 
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture 2451 
Osprey 3614 
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier 5659 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1124 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Cooper's Hawk 2009 
Northern Goshawk 44 
Bald Eagle 2198 
Mississippi Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk 77 
Broad-winged Hawk 77 
Swainson's Hawk 11 
Red-tailed Hawk 2889 
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 1030 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 498 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 609 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Downy Woodpecker 4373 
Hairy Woodpecker 658 
Northern Flicker 2687 
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel 1072 
Merlin 2302 
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon 2866 
Prairie Falcon
Monk Parakeet
Ash-throated Flycatcher 13 
Great Crested Flycatcher 1245 
Western Kingbird 40 
Eastern Kingbird 2663 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 26 
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher 91 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 571 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 198 
Acadian Flycatcher 16 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Alder Flycatcher 411 
Willow Flycatcher 1651 
Least Flycatcher 401 
Eastern Phoebe 2151 
Say's Phoebe
White-eyed Vireo 118 
Yellow-throated Vireo 106 
Blue-headed Vireo 825 
Philadelphia Vireo 268 
Warbling Vireo 359 
Red-eyed Vireo 1809 
Yellow-green Vireo
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike 778 
Blue Jay 5924 
American Crow 6607 
Fish Crow 247 
Common Raven 1108 
Black-capped Chickadee 6678 
Tufted Titmouse 655 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Horned Lark 1727 
Bank Swallow 1380 
Tree Swallow 3767 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 242 
Purple Martin 2312 
Barn Swallow 2774 
Cliff Swallow 161 
Cave Swallow 11 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1416 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1624 
Bohemian Waxwing 18 
Cedar Waxwing 3538 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2391 
White-breasted Nuthatch 917 
Brown Creeper 726 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 380 
House Wren 763 
Winter Wren 237 
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren 3031 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Carolina Wren 1511 
Gray Catbird 4439 
Brown Thrasher 3210 
Sage Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird 6395 
European Starling 5940 
Eastern Bluebird 65 
Townsend's Solitaire
Veery 396 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 50 
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 447 
Hermit Thrush 1826 
Wood Thrush 192 
American Robin 6965 
Northern Wheatear
House Sparrow 4928 
American Pipit 724 
Evening Grosbeak 16 
Pine Grosbeak 17 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
House Finch 4116 
Purple Finch 3009 
Common Redpoll 353 
Hoary Redpoll 16 
Red Crossbill 218 
White-winged Crossbill 148 
Pine Siskin 386 
American Goldfinch 5383 
Lapland Longspur 379 
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Snow Bunting 1313 
Grasshopper Sparrow 25 
Lark Sparrow 76 
Lark Bunting
Chipping Sparrow 1294 
Clay-colored Sparrow 239 
Field Sparrow 2294 
Fox Sparrow 307 
American Tree Sparrow 2818 
Dark-eyed Junco 2280 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
White-crowned Sparrow 668 
White-throated Sparrow 3408 
Vesper Sparrow 55 
Seaside Sparrow 973 
Nelson's Sparrow 148 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 2151 
Savannah Sparrow 3193 
Song Sparrow 6577 
Lincoln's Sparrow 270 
Swamp Sparrow 2376 
Green-tailed Towhee 12 
Eastern Towhee 4016 
Yellow-breasted Chat 98 
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bobolink 2386 
Eastern Meadowlark 630 
Western Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole 967 
Baltimore Oriole 2177 
Red-winged Blackbird 4237 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Brown-headed Cowbird 2326 
Rusty Blackbird 115 
Common Grackle 3697 
Ovenbird 559 
Worm-eating Warbler 30 
Louisiana Waterthrush 10 
Northern Waterthrush 674 
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler 116 
Black-and-white Warbler 1110 
Prothonotary Warbler 17 
Swainson's Warbler
Tennessee Warbler 189 
Orange-crowned Warbler 131 
Nashville Warbler 570 
Connecticut Warbler 67 
Mourning Warbler 169 
Kentucky Warbler 21 
Common Yellowthroat 2935 
Hooded Warbler 61 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Redstart 2068 
Cape May Warbler 282 
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula 935 
Magnolia Warbler 835 
Bay-breasted Warbler 344 
Blackburnian Warbler 450 
Yellow Warbler 2589 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 500 
Blackpoll Warbler 975 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 760 
Palm Warbler 924 
Pine Warbler 761 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2869 
Yellow-throated Warbler 10 
Prairie Warbler 346 
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler 916 
Canada Warbler 415 
Wilson's Warbler 584 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Summer Tanager 45 
Scarlet Tanager 392 
Western Tanager
Northern Cardinal 6078 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 640 
Blue Grosbeak 16 
Indigo Bunting 161 
Dickcissel 153 

April 15, 2025, Tom Wetmore