Tom’s Birding Page

2008 Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore

This table shows the 2008 quarter-month status of the birds of Plum Island. It is based on data collected for inclusion on the Plum Island sigthings web site. The column labeled N shows the number days the species has been reported in 2008.

Status of the Birds of Plum Island — updated January 1, 2009 — day 1

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 58 
Brant 75 
Canada Goose 325 
Mute Swan 167 
Wood Duck 32 
Gadwall 285 
Eurasian Wigeon 9 
American Wigeon 117 
American Black Duck 323 
Mallard 324 
Blue-winged Teal 99 
Northern Shoveler 67 
Northern Pintail 168 
Green-winged Teal 234 
Canvasback 5 
Ring-necked Duck 15 
Greater Scaup 54 
Lesser Scaup 5 
Common Eider 174 
Surf Scoter 98 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
White-winged Scoter 195 
Black Scoter 144 
Long-tailed Duck 151 
Bufflehead 127 
Common Goldeneye 117 
Hooded Merganser 127 
Common Merganser 50 
Red-breasted Merganser 187 
Ruddy Duck 44 
Ring-necked Pheasant 11 
Wild Turkey 11 
Red-throated Loon 159 
Pacific Loon 1 
Common Loon 260 
Pied-billed Grebe 26 
Horned Grebe 104 
Red-necked Grebe 91 
Cory's Shearwater 2 
Greater Shearwater 1 
Sooty Shearwater 2 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Manx Shearwater 10 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 6 
Leach's Storm-Petrel 1 
Northern Gannet 136 
Double-crested Cormorant 233 
Great Cormorant 79 
American Bittern 97 
Least Bittern 51 
Great Blue Heron 218 
Great Egret 214 
Snowy Egret 171 
Little Blue Heron 8 
Tricolored Heron 23 
Green Heron 24 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 99 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2 
Glossy Ibis 70 
Turkey Vulture 138 
Osprey 165 
Bald Eagle 60 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Harrier 289 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 86 
Cooper's Hawk 92 
Northern Goshawk 11 
Red-shouldered Hawk 4 
Broad-winged Hawk 3 
Red-tailed Hawk 118 
Rough-legged Hawk 82 
Golden Eagle 1 
American Kestrel 69 
Merlin 138 
Gyrfalcon 3 
Peregrine Falcon 153 
King Rail 26 
Virginia Rail 66 
Sora 53 
Common Moorhen 12 
American Coot 10 
Sandhill Crane 1 
Black-bellied Plover 175 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Golden-Plover 38 
Semipalmated Plover 137 
Piping Plover 103 
Killdeer 157 
Spotted Sandpiper 75 
Solitary Sandpiper 10 
Greater Yellowlegs 217 
Willet 105 
Lesser Yellowlegs 130 
Whimbrel 45 
Hudsonian Godwit 4 
Marbled Godwit 9 
Ruddy Turnstone 51 
Red Knot 52 
Sanderling 153 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 145 
Western Sandpiper 12 
Least Sandpiper 114 
White-rumped Sandpiper 105 
Baird's Sandpiper 13 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pectoral Sandpiper 49 
Purple Sandpiper 27 
Dunlin 124 
Stilt Sandpiper 25 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 11 
Ruff 4 
Short-billed Dowitcher 103 
Long-billed Dowitcher 25 
Wilson's Snipe 49 
American Woodcock 89 
Wilson's Phalarope 9 
Black-legged Kittiwake 36 
Sabine's Gull 1 
Bonaparte's Gull 129 
Black-headed Gull 3 
Little Gull 3 
Laughing Gull 57 
Franklin's Gull 2 
Ring-billed Gull 297 
Herring Gull 331 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Iceland Gull 20 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 22 
Glaucous Gull 8 
Great Black-backed Gull 323 
Least Tern 89 
Gull-billed Tern 6 
Caspian Tern 9 
Black Tern 7 
Roseate Tern 25 
Common Tern 109 
Forster's Tern 23 
Royal Tern 4 
Black Skimmer 1 
Pomarine Jaeger 2 
Parasitic Jaeger 2 
Dovekie 3 
Common Murre 2 
Thick-billed Murre 2 
Razorbill 47 
Black Guillemot 2 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Rock Pigeon 248 
Mourning Dove 297 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 15 
Black-billed Cuckoo 13 
Eastern Screech-Owl 2 
Great Horned Owl 98 
Snowy Owl 87 
Barred Owl 6 
Short-eared Owl 45 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 7 
Common Nighthawk 11 
Whip-poor-will 30 
Chimney Swift 35 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 41 
Belted Kingfisher 63 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 49 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 18 
Downy Woodpecker 174 
Hairy Woodpecker 41 
Northern Flicker 110 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Olive-sided Flycatcher 3 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 26 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 14 
Acadian Flycatcher 1 
Alder Flycatcher 16 
Willow Flycatcher 74 
Least Flycatcher 27 
Eastern Phoebe 82 
Say's Phoebe 2 
Great Crested Flycatcher 48 
Western Kingbird 1 
Eastern Kingbird 123 
Northern Shrike 78 
White-eyed Vireo 1 
Yellow-throated Vireo 6 
Blue-headed Vireo 42 
Warbling Vireo 20 
Philadelphia Vireo 17 
Red-eyed Vireo 62 
Blue Jay 283 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Crow 327 
Fish Crow 4 
Common Raven 2 
Horned Lark 115 
Purple Martin 117 
Tree Swallow 177 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 23 
Bank Swallow 84 
Cliff Swallow 17 
Cave Swallow 2 
Barn Swallow 139 
Black-capped Chickadee 302 
Tufted Titmouse 38 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 138 
White-breasted Nuthatch 25 
Brown Creeper 35 
Carolina Wren 61 
House Wren 39 
Winter Wren 16 
Marsh Wren 161 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Golden-crowned Kinglet 77 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 73 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 15 
Eastern Bluebird 3 
Veery 29 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 2 
Swainson's Thrush 19 
Hermit Thrush 63 
Wood Thrush 29 
American Robin 324 
Gray Catbird 191 
Northern Mockingbird 316 
Brown Thrasher 169 
European Starling 290 
American Pipit 47 
Bohemian Waxwing 1 
Cedar Waxwing 174 
Blue-winged Warbler 7 
Golden-winged Warbler 1 
Tennessee Warbler 12 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Orange-crowned Warbler 11 
Nashville Warbler 32 
Northern Parula 52 
Yellow Warbler 121 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 26 
Magnolia Warbler 55 
Cape May Warbler 11 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 47 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 138 
Black-throated Green Warbler 48 
Blackburnian Warbler 24 
Yellow-throated Warbler 1 
Pine Warbler 22 
Prairie Warbler 20 
Palm Warbler 45 
Bay-breasted Warbler 13 
Blackpoll Warbler 59 
Cerulean Warbler 2 
Black-and-white Warbler 59 
American Redstart 89 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Worm-eating Warbler 2 
Ovenbird 25 
Northern Waterthrush 42 
Kentucky Warbler 2 
Connecticut Warbler 4 
Mourning Warbler 8 
Common Yellowthroat 143 
Hooded Warbler 2 
Wilson's Warbler 40 
Canada Warbler 24 
Yellow-breasted Chat 7 
Scarlet Tanager 18 
Eastern Towhee 185 
American Tree Sparrow 144 
Chipping Sparrow 60 
Clay-colored Sparrow 9 
Field Sparrow 97 
Vesper Sparrow 1 
Savannah Sparrow 197 
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 5 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow 111 
Seaside Sparrow 58 
Fox Sparrow 12 
Song Sparrow 293 
Lincoln's Sparrow 14 
Swamp Sparrow 96 
White-throated Sparrow 189 
White-crowned Sparrow 54 
Dark-eyed Junco 111 
Lapland Longspur 37 
Snow Bunting 75 
Northern Cardinal 277 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 32 
Indigo Bunting 14 
Dickcissel 5 
Bobolink 119 
Red-winged Blackbird 197 
Eastern Meadowlark 162 
Rusty Blackbird 7 
Common Grackle 191 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Brown-headed Cowbird 127 
Orchard Oriole 41 
Baltimore Oriole 110 
Purple Finch 158 
House Finch 164 
Red Crossbill 1 
White-winged Crossbill 16 
Common Redpoll 18 
Hoary Redpoll 1 
Pine Siskin 45 
American Goldfinch 243 
House Sparrow 233 

Total species 292. Total reports 52,853. Total sightings 22,477.

January 1, 2009, Tom Wetmore