Tom’s Birding Page

2009 Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore

This table shows the 2009 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 2009.

Status of the Birds of Plum Island — updated January 1, 2010 — day 1

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 53 
Ross's Goose 7 
Brant 54 
Cackling Goose 6 
Canada Goose 314 
Mute Swan 226 
Wood Duck 20 
Gadwall 254 
Eurasian Wigeon 1 
American Wigeon 101 
American Black Duck 296 
Mallard 292 
Blue-winged Teal 59 
Northern Shoveler 93 
Northern Pintail 144 
Green-winged Teal 218 
Redhead 1 
Ring-necked Duck 24 
Greater Scaup 61 
Lesser Scaup 42 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
King Eider 4 
Common Eider 179 
Surf Scoter 53 
White-winged Scoter 190 
Black Scoter 130 
Long-tailed Duck 152 
Bufflehead 145 
Common Goldeneye 94 
Barrow's Goldeneye 1 
Hooded Merganser 107 
Common Merganser 28 
Red-breasted Merganser 177 
Ruddy Duck 29 
Ring-necked Pheasant 2 
Wild Turkey 8 
Red-throated Loon 130 
Common Loon 208 
Pied-billed Grebe 25 
Horned Grebe 110 
Red-necked Grebe 93 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Cory's Shearwater 5 
Greater Shearwater 10 
Sooty Shearwater 2 
Manx Shearwater 6 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 7 
Leach's Storm-Petrel 2 
Northern Gannet 151 
Double-crested Cormorant 224 
Great Cormorant 49 
American Bittern 19 
Least Bittern 43 
Great Blue Heron 185 
Great Egret 201 
Snowy Egret 171 
Little Blue Heron 5 
Tricolored Heron 1 
Green Heron 12 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 73 
Glossy Ibis 20 
Black Vulture 2 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Turkey Vulture 116 
Osprey 160 
Bald Eagle 59 
Northern Harrier 248 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 51 
Cooper's Hawk 82 
Northern Goshawk 7 
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 
Broad-winged Hawk 8 
Red-tailed Hawk 113 
Rough-legged Hawk 46 
Golden Eagle 2 
Eurasian Kestrel 1 
American Kestrel 44 
Merlin 102 
Peregrine Falcon 119 
Clapper Rail 1 
King Rail 1 
Virginia Rail 59 
Sora 52 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Moorhen 5 
Black-bellied Plover 163 
American Golden-Plover 26 
Semipalmated Plover 128 
Piping Plover 74 
Killdeer 152 
American Oystercatcher 3 
American Avocet 1 
Spotted Sandpiper 53 
Solitary Sandpiper 8 
Greater Yellowlegs 198 
Willet 103 
Lesser Yellowlegs 93 
Whimbrel 40 
Hudsonian Godwit 27 
Marbled Godwit 11 
Ruddy Turnstone 36 
Red Knot 40 
Sanderling 112 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 126 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Western Sandpiper 15 
Least Sandpiper 107 
White-rumped Sandpiper 90 
Baird's Sandpiper 24 
Pectoral Sandpiper 45 
Purple Sandpiper 29 
Dunlin 101 
Stilt Sandpiper 21 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 9 
Short-billed Dowitcher 87 
Long-billed Dowitcher 26 
Wilson's Snipe 23 
American Woodcock 44 
Wilson's Phalarope 2 
Black-legged Kittiwake 32 
Bonaparte's Gull 90 
Black-headed Gull 5 
Laughing Gull 35 
Ring-billed Gull 255 
Herring Gull 325 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Thayer's Gull 5 
Iceland Gull 12 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 8 
Glaucous Gull 8 
Great Black-backed Gull 305 
Least Tern 89 
Caspian Tern 4 
Black Tern 3 
Roseate Tern 10 
Common Tern 107 
Forster's Tern 7 
Royal Tern 1 
Parasitic Jaeger 3 
Dovekie 1 
Thick-billed Murre 1 
Razorbill 17 
Black Guillemot 8 
Rock Pigeon 186 
Mourning Dove 245 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 4 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-billed Cuckoo 19 
Great Horned Owl 22 
Snowy Owl 94 
Barred Owl 1 
Long-eared Owl 1 
Short-eared Owl 12 
Common Nighthawk 5 
Chuck-will's-widow 1 
Whip-poor-will 16 
Chimney Swift 33 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 39 
Belted Kingfisher 38 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 24 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 27 
Downy Woodpecker 171 
Hairy Woodpecker 10 
Northern Flicker 74 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 5 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 22 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 11 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Acadian Flycatcher 2 
Alder Flycatcher 13 
Willow Flycatcher 66 
Least Flycatcher 18 
Eastern Phoebe 104 
Great Crested Flycatcher 26 
Eastern Kingbird 122 
Northern Shrike 81 
Yellow-throated Vireo 2 
Blue-headed Vireo 42 
Warbling Vireo 18 
Philadelphia Vireo 8 
Red-eyed Vireo 49 
Blue Jay 265 
American Crow 319 
Fish Crow 8 
Horned Lark 76 
Purple Martin 103 
Tree Swallow 166 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 8 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bank Swallow 54 
Cliff Swallow 10 
Barn Swallow 129 
Black-capped Chickadee 292 
Tufted Titmouse 9 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 46 
White-breasted Nuthatch 9 
Brown Creeper 27 
Carolina Wren 22 
House Wren 21 
Winter Wren 13 
Marsh Wren 123 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 68 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 65 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 22 
Eastern Bluebird 3 
Veery 17 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 
Swainson's Thrush 19 
Hermit Thrush 52 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Wood Thrush 14 
American Robin 310 
Gray Catbird 157 
Northern Mockingbird 269 
Brown Thrasher 146 
European Starling 284 
American Pipit 42 
Cedar Waxwing 154 
Blue-winged Warbler 4 
Tennessee Warbler 10 
Orange-crowned Warbler 9 
Nashville Warbler 34 
Northern Parula 39 
Yellow Warbler 114 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 26 
Magnolia Warbler 35 
Cape May Warbler 11 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 39 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 107 
Black-throated Green Warbler 43 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Blackburnian Warbler 20 
Pine Warbler 20 
Prairie Warbler 15 
Palm Warbler 40 
Bay-breasted Warbler 12 
Blackpoll Warbler 48 
Black-and-white Warbler 51 
American Redstart 79 
Prothonotary Warbler 3 
Worm-eating Warbler 2 
Ovenbird 21 
Northern Waterthrush 33 
Louisiana Waterthrush 1 
Connecticut Warbler 4 
Mourning Warbler 10 
Common Yellowthroat 120 
Hooded Warbler 4 
Wilson's Warbler 31 
Canada Warbler 22 
Yellow-breasted Chat 2 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Eastern Towhee 165 
American Tree Sparrow 119 
Chipping Sparrow 57 
Clay-colored Sparrow 6 
Field Sparrow 95 
Lark Sparrow 9 
Savannah Sparrow 161 
Nelson's Sparrow 1 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 82 
Seaside Sparrow 33 
Fox Sparrow 12 
Song Sparrow 262 
Lincoln's Sparrow 13 
Swamp Sparrow 50 
White-throated Sparrow 129 
White-crowned Sparrow 28 
Dark-eyed Junco 96 
Lapland Longspur 16 
Snow Bunting 59 
Scarlet Tanager 20 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Cardinal 253 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 21 
Blue Grosbeak 4 
Indigo Bunting 10 
Dickcissel 3 
Bobolink 105 
Red-winged Blackbird 189 
Eastern Meadowlark 133 
Rusty Blackbird 5 
Common Grackle 160 
Brown-headed Cowbird 108 
Orchard Oriole 23 
Baltimore Oriole 94 
Pine Grosbeak 1 
Purple Finch 119 
House Finch 120 
Red Crossbill 1 
White-winged Crossbill 33 
Common Redpoll 20 
Hoary Redpoll 1 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pine Siskin 12 
American Goldfinch 229 
House Sparrow 178 

Total species 283. Total reports 40,038. Total sightings 19,122.

January 1, 2010, Tom Wetmore