Tom’s Birding Page

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 9, 2010

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 392 
Ross's Goose
Brant 417 
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose 2249 
Mute Swan 1374 
Wood Duck 181 
Gadwall 1886 
Eurasian Wigeon 77 
American Wigeon 605 
American Black Duck 2131 
Mallard 2113 
Blue-winged Teal 700 
Northern Shoveler 373 
Northern Pintail 1073 
Green-winged Teal 1556 
Canvasback
Redhead 18 
Ring-necked Duck 130 
Greater Scaup 299 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Lesser Scaup 157 
King Eider 20 
Common Eider 1147 
Harlequin Duck 16 
Surf Scoter 460 
White-winged Scoter 1246 
Black Scoter 810 
Long-tailed Duck 909 
Bufflehead 869 
Common Goldeneye 686 
Barrow's Goldeneye 33 
Hooded Merganser 703 
Common Merganser 178 
Red-breasted Merganser 1138 
Ruddy Duck 172 
Ring-necked Pheasant 58 
Wild Turkey 60 
Red-throated Loon 831 
Pacific Loon
Common Loon 1434 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pied-billed Grebe 278 
Horned Grebe 743 
Red-necked Grebe 531 
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe 15 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater 10 
Manx Shearwater 41 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 63 
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Northern Gannet 817 
Double-crested Cormorant 1617 
Great Cormorant 290 
American White Pelican
American Bittern 385 
Least Bittern 302 
Great Blue Heron 1383 
Great Egret 1488 
Snowy Egret 1315 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Little Blue Heron 98 
Tricolored Heron 124 
Cattle Egret 10 
Green Heron 177 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 560 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 18 
Glossy Ibis 439 
White-faced Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture 676 
Osprey 1133 
Bald Eagle 272 
Northern Harrier 1947 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 426 
Cooper's Hawk 434 
Northern Goshawk 28 
Red-shouldered Hawk 10 
Broad-winged Hawk 18 
Red-tailed Hawk 600 
Rough-legged Hawk 433 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Golden Eagle
Eurasian Kestrel
American Kestrel 454 
Merlin 757 
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon 826 
Black Rail 18 
Clapper Rail 86 
King Rail 114 
Virginia Rail 378 
Sora 366 
Common Moorhen 93 
American Coot 143 
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover 1114 
American Golden-Plover 225 
Pacific Golden-Plover
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover 937 
Piping Plover 582 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Killdeer 1167 
American Oystercatcher 17 
American Avocet 16 
Spotted Sandpiper 492 
Solitary Sandpiper 86 
Greater Yellowlegs 1550 
Willet 806 
Lesser Yellowlegs 934 
Upland Sandpiper 12 
Whimbrel 341 
Black-tailed Godwit 11 
Hudsonian Godwit 106 
Marbled Godwit 47 
Ruddy Turnstone 327 
Red Knot 268 
Sanderling 817 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 958 
Western Sandpiper 131 
Least Sandpiper 833 
White-rumped Sandpiper 656 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Baird's Sandpiper 152 
Pectoral Sandpiper 331 
Purple Sandpiper 207 
Dunlin 740 
Curlew Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper 284 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 107 
Ruff 10 
Short-billed Dowitcher 740 
Long-billed Dowitcher 292 
Wilson's Snipe 208 
American Woodcock 325 
Wilson's Phalarope 134 
Red-necked Phalarope 14 
Red Phalarope 12 
Black-legged Kittiwake 200 
Sabine's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull 664 
Black-headed Gull 30 
Little Gull 97 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Laughing Gull 287 
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull 1641 
Herring Gull 2229 
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull 85 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 50 
Glaucous Gull 25 
Great Black-backed Gull 2023 
Least Tern 700 
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern 51 
Black Tern 47 
Roseate Tern 132 
Common Tern 873 
Arctic Tern 14 
Forster's Tern 81 
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Black Skimmer
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger 16 
Long-tailed Jaeger
Dovekie 18 
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre 12 
Razorbill 203 
Black Guillemot 25 
Atlantic Puffin
Rock Pigeon 1017 
Mourning Dove 1753 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 105 
Black-billed Cuckoo 140 
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl 185 
Snowy Owl 592 
Barred Owl 12 
Long-eared Owl 18 
Short-eared Owl 279 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 12 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Nighthawk 47 
Chuck-will's-widow
Eastern Whip-poor-will 19 
Chimney Swift 224 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 241 
Belted Kingfisher 302 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 100 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 118 
Downy Woodpecker 1063 
Hairy Woodpecker 143 
Northern Flicker 638 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 28 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 148 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 73 
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher 118 
Willow Flycatcher 533 
Least Flycatcher 136 
Eastern Phoebe 619 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Say's Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher 220 
Western Kingbird 10 
Eastern Kingbird 929 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 22 
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike 433 
White-eyed Vireo 15 
Yellow-throated Vireo 18 
Blue-headed Vireo 262 
Warbling Vireo 107 
Philadelphia Vireo 91 
Red-eyed Vireo 378 
Blue Jay 1641 
American Crow 2155 
Fish Crow 28 
Common Raven 11 
Horned Lark 664 
Purple Martin 815 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Tree Swallow 1294 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 95 
Bank Swallow 493 
Cliff Swallow 78 
Cave Swallow
Barn Swallow 853 
Black-capped Chickadee 2005 
Tufted Titmouse 85 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 545 
White-breasted Nuthatch 96 
Brown Creeper 200 
Carolina Wren 362 
House Wren 201 
Winter Wren 93 
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren 1012 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 110 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 474 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 465 
Northern Wheatear
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Eastern Bluebird 21 
Veery 125 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 11 
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 120 
Hermit Thrush 402 
Wood Thrush 91 
American Robin 2203 
Gray Catbird 1394 
Northern Mockingbird 1930 
Sage Thrasher
Brown Thrasher 1115 
European Starling 1832 
American Pipit 298 
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing 1128 
Lapland Longspur 190 
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Snow Bunting 450 
Blue-winged Warbler 41 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler 44 
Orange-crowned Warbler 42 
Nashville Warbler 203 
Northern Parula 303 
Yellow Warbler 898 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 168 
Magnolia Warbler 306 
Cape May Warbler 58 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 295 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 878 
Black-throated Green Warbler 334 
Blackburnian Warbler 157 
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler 127 
Prairie Warbler 108 
Palm Warbler 299 
Bay-breasted Warbler 93 
Blackpoll Warbler 323 
Cerulean Warbler
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-and-white Warbler 398 
American Redstart 623 
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler 16 
Swainson's Warbler
Ovenbird 181 
Northern Waterthrush 239 
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler 11 
Connecticut Warbler 36 
Mourning Warbler 67 
Common Yellowthroat 935 
Hooded Warbler 22 
Wilson's Warbler 228 
Canada Warbler 155 
Yellow-breasted Chat 36 
Green-tailed Towhee 12 
Eastern Towhee 1272 
American Tree Sparrow 938 
Chipping Sparrow 323 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Clay-colored Sparrow 68 
Field Sparrow 716 
Vesper Sparrow 26 
Lark Sparrow 20 
Savannah Sparrow 1154 
Grasshopper Sparrow
Nelson's Sparrow 33 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 707 
Seaside Sparrow 290 
Fox Sparrow 69 
Song Sparrow 2003 
Lincoln's Sparrow 86 
Swamp Sparrow 479 
White-throated Sparrow 1040 
White-crowned Sparrow 223 
Dark-eyed Junco 651 
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager 129 
Northern Cardinal 1686 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 180 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting 54 
Dickcissel 28 
Bobolink 836 
Red-winged Blackbird 1312 
Eastern Meadowlark 481 
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird 43 
Common Grackle 1175 
Brown-headed Cowbird 828 
Orchard Oriole 155 
Baltimore Oriole 658 
Pine Grosbeak 12 
Purple Finch 866 
House Finch 959 
Red Crossbill 18 
White-winged Crossbill 55 
Common Redpoll 130 
Hoary Redpoll
Pine Siskin 110 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Goldfinch 1604 
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow 1133 

September 9, 2010, Tom Wetmore