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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 June 7, 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 6381 
Mute Swan 3857 
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck 431 
Blue-winged Teal 1224 
Northern Shoveler 1312 
Gadwall 5075 
Eurasian Wigeon 281 
American Wigeon 1829 
Mallard 6173 
American Black Duck 6179 
Northern Pintail 3023 
Green-winged Teal 4473 
Canvasback 21 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Redhead 153 
Ring-necked Duck 363 
Greater Scaup 982 
Lesser Scaup 589 
King Eider 116 
Common Eider 3867 
Harlequin Duck 57 
Surf Scoter 1760 
White-winged Scoter 3823 
Black Scoter 2851 
Long-tailed Duck 2957 
Bufflehead 2804 
Common Goldeneye 2162 
Barrow's Goldeneye 35 
Hooded Merganser 2024 
Common Merganser 412 
Red-breasted Merganser 3352 
Ruddy Duck 537 
Wild Turkey 2234 
Ring-necked Pheasant 84 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pied-billed Grebe 780 
Horned Grebe 2336 
Red-necked Grebe 1454 
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe 71 
Rock Pigeon 4066 
Ringed Turtle-Dove
Mourning Dove 5237 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 281 
Black-billed Cuckoo 342 
Common Nighthawk 87 
Chuck-will's-widow
Eastern Whip-poor-will 307 
Chimney Swift 594 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 675 
King Rail 166 
Clapper Rail 101 
Virginia Rail 702 
Sora 501 
Common Gallinule 132 
 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 231 
American Oystercatcher 52 
Northern Lapwing
Black-bellied Plover 3277 
American Golden-Plover 602 
Pacific Golden-Plover
Killdeer 3361 
Common Ringed Plover
Semipalmated Plover 2760 
Piping Plover 2034 
Wilson's Plover
Upland Sandpiper 19 
Whimbrel 695 
Black-tailed Godwit 11 
Hudsonian Godwit 367 
Marbled Godwit 99 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ruddy Turnstone 887 
Red Knot 754 
Ruff 17 
Stilt Sandpiper 898 
Curlew Sandpiper 24 
Red-necked Stint
Sanderling 2853 
Dunlin 2769 
Purple Sandpiper 451 
Baird's Sandpiper 354 
Least Sandpiper 2213 
White-rumped Sandpiper 1909 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 208 
Pectoral Sandpiper 906 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2752 
Western Sandpiper 345 
Short-billed Dowitcher 2077 
Long-billed Dowitcher 790 
American Woodcock 802 
Wilson's Snipe 409 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Spotted Sandpiper 1492 
Solitary Sandpiper 238 
Lesser Yellowlegs 2539 
Willet 2169 
Greater Yellowlegs 4209 
Wilson's Phalarope 238 
Red-necked Phalarope 32 
Red Phalarope 30 
Pomarine Jaeger 11 
Parasitic Jaeger 58 
Long-tailed Jaeger
Dovekie 51 
Common Murre 17 
Thick-billed Murre 43 
Razorbill 968 
Black Guillemot 146 
Atlantic Puffin
Black-legged Kittiwake 398 
Sabine's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull 1594 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-headed Gull 39 
Little Gull 124 
Laughing Gull 790 
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull 4753 
Herring Gull 6433 
Iceland Gull 148 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 210 
Glaucous Gull 48 
Great Black-backed Gull 5972 
Least Tern 2037 
Gull-billed Tern 44 
Caspian Tern 171 
Black Tern 145 
Roseate Tern 472 
Common Tern 2286 
Arctic Tern 32 
Forster's Tern 281 
Royal Tern 38 
Sandwich Tern
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Elegant Tern
Black Skimmer 80 
Red-throated Loon 2438 
Pacific Loon 16 
Common Loon 4307 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 140 
Leach's Storm-Petrel 11 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater 45 
Sooty Shearwater 21 
Great Shearwater 54 
Manx Shearwater 66 
Northern Gannet 2314 
Great Cormorant 792 
Double-crested Cormorant 4509 
Neotropic Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
American Bittern 717 
Least Bittern 788 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Great Blue Heron 3969 
Great Egret 4221 
Little Egret
Snowy Egret 3419 
Little Blue Heron 206 
Tricolored Heron 247 
Cattle Egret 27 
Green Heron 369 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1633 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 326 
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis 997 
White-faced Ibis 22 
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture 2213 
Osprey 3263 
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier 5113 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1029 
Cooper's Hawk 1744 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Goshawk 44 
Bald Eagle 1885 
Mississippi Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk 65 
Broad-winged Hawk 42 
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk 2592 
Rough-legged Hawk 1446 
Eastern Screech-Owl 12 
Great Horned Owl 369 
Snowy Owl 1476 
Barred Owl 213 
Long-eared Owl 33 
Short-eared Owl 587 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 43 
Belted Kingfisher 895 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 415 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 529 
Downy Woodpecker 3901 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hairy Woodpecker 620 
Northern Flicker 2319 
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel 1016 
Merlin 2065 
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon 2591 
Prairie Falcon
Monk Parakeet
Ash-throated Flycatcher 13 
Great Crested Flycatcher 1059 
Western Kingbird 40 
Eastern Kingbird 2440 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 25 
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher 83 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 467 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 178 
Acadian Flycatcher 14 
Alder Flycatcher 390 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Willow Flycatcher 1486 
Least Flycatcher 369 
Eastern Phoebe 1939 
Say's Phoebe
White-eyed Vireo 103 
Yellow-throated Vireo 103 
Blue-headed Vireo 758 
Philadelphia Vireo 252 
Warbling Vireo 334 
Red-eyed Vireo 1554 
Yellow-green Vireo
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike 763 
Blue Jay 5309 
American Crow 6005 
Fish Crow 206 
Common Raven 814 
Black-capped Chickadee 6022 
Tufted Titmouse 580 
Horned Lark 1571 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bank Swallow 1270 
Tree Swallow 3452 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 221 
Purple Martin 2108 
Barn Swallow 2514 
Cliff Swallow 154 
Cave Swallow 10 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1302 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1415 
Bohemian Waxwing 16 
Cedar Waxwing 3226 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2250 
White-breasted Nuthatch 754 
Brown Creeper 671 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 354 
House Wren 579 
Winter Wren 220 
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren 2715 
Carolina Wren 1116 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Gray Catbird 3997 
Brown Thrasher 2941 
Sage Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird 5773 
European Starling 5359 
Eastern Bluebird 53 
Townsend's Solitaire
Veery 370 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 47 
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 422 
Hermit Thrush 1582 
Wood Thrush 184 
American Robin 6306 
Northern Wheatear
House Sparrow 4375 
American Pipit 628 
Evening Grosbeak 16 
Pine Grosbeak 17 
House Finch 3555 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Purple Finch 2747 
Common Redpoll 352 
Hoary Redpoll 16 
Red Crossbill 211 
White-winged Crossbill 140 
Pine Siskin 330 
American Goldfinch 4818 
Lapland Longspur 360 
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Snow Bunting 1211 
Grasshopper Sparrow 25 
Lark Sparrow 72 
Chipping Sparrow 1180 
Clay-colored Sparrow 218 
Field Sparrow 2047 
Fox Sparrow 282 
American Tree Sparrow 2538 
Dark-eyed Junco 2035 
White-crowned Sparrow 635 
White-throated Sparrow 3052 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Vesper Sparrow 53 
Seaside Sparrow 896 
Nelson's Sparrow 126 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 1931 
Savannah Sparrow 2912 
Song Sparrow 5930 
Lincoln's Sparrow 248 
Swamp Sparrow 1997 
Green-tailed Towhee 12 
Eastern Towhee 3624 
Yellow-breasted Chat 98 
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bobolink 2186 
Eastern Meadowlark 607 
Western Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole 824 
Baltimore Oriole 1967 
Red-winged Blackbird 3785 
Brown-headed Cowbird 2140 
Rusty Blackbird 101 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Grackle 3322 
Ovenbird 513 
Worm-eating Warbler 29 
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush 633 
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler 108 
Black-and-white Warbler 1002 
Prothonotary Warbler 17 
Swainson's Warbler
Tennessee Warbler 168 
Orange-crowned Warbler 104 
Nashville Warbler 520 
Connecticut Warbler 64 
Mourning Warbler 159 
Kentucky Warbler 21 
Common Yellowthroat 2641 
Hooded Warbler 57 
American Redstart 1844 
Cape May Warbler 240 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula 862 
Magnolia Warbler 777 
Bay-breasted Warbler 297 
Blackburnian Warbler 421 
Yellow Warbler 2350 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 469 
Blackpoll Warbler 904 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 710 
Palm Warbler 853 
Pine Warbler 729 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2571 
Yellow-throated Warbler 10 
Prairie Warbler 321 
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler 856 
Canada Warbler 387 
Wilson's Warbler 550 
Summer Tanager 45 
Scarlet Tanager 368 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Western Tanager
Northern Cardinal 5436 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 556 
Blue Grosbeak 13 
Indigo Bunting 149 
Dickcissel 135 

June 7, 2023, Tom Wetmore