Tom’s Birding Page

2010 Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore

This table shows the 2010 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 2010.

Status of the Birds of Plum Island — updated January 1, 2011 — day 1

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 25 
Brant 51 
Canada Goose 324 
Mute Swan 150 
Wood Duck 31 
Gadwall 257 
Eurasian Wigeon 7 
American Wigeon 95 
American Black Duck 311 
Mallard 303 
Blue-winged Teal 92 
Northern Shoveler 83 
Northern Pintail 119 
Green-winged Teal 249 
Redhead 8 
Ring-necked Duck 13 
Greater Scaup 33 
Lesser Scaup 15 
King Eider 2 
Common Eider 195 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Surf Scoter 90 
White-winged Scoter 201 
Black Scoter 136 
Long-tailed Duck 154 
Bufflehead 137 
Common Goldeneye 92 
Hooded Merganser 91 
Common Merganser 34 
Red-breasted Merganser 166 
Ruddy Duck 26 
Ring-necked Pheasant 1 
Wild Turkey 9 
Red-throated Loon 141 
Common Loon 208 
Pied-billed Grebe 21 
Horned Grebe 121 
Red-necked Grebe 95 
Northern Fulmar 1 
Great Shearwater 3 
Sooty Shearwater 1 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Manx Shearwater 4 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 5 
Northern Gannet 144 
Double-crested Cormorant 222 
Great Cormorant 63 
American Bittern 20 
Least Bittern 28 
Great Blue Heron 198 
Great Egret 207 
Snowy Egret 159 
Little Blue Heron 7 
Tricolored Heron 6 
Cattle Egret 11 
Green Heron 9 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 90 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 11 
Glossy Ibis 63 
White-faced Ibis 3 
Turkey Vulture 119 
Osprey 152 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bald Eagle 78 
Northern Harrier 240 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 64 
Cooper's Hawk 64 
Northern Goshawk 6 
Red-shouldered Hawk 6 
Red-tailed Hawk 127 
Rough-legged Hawk 67 
American Kestrel 66 
Merlin 103 
Gyrfalcon 1 
Peregrine Falcon 140 
Black Rail 18 
Clapper Rail 4 
Virginia Rail 80 
Sora 74 
Common Moorhen 2 
American Coot 15 
Sandhill Crane 1 
Northern Lapwing 1 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-bellied Plover 178 
American Golden-Plover 46 
Semipalmated Plover 140 
Piping Plover 91 
Killdeer 158 
American Oystercatcher 3 
Spotted Sandpiper 65 
Solitary Sandpiper 19 
Greater Yellowlegs 211 
Willet 108 
Lesser Yellowlegs 136 
Whimbrel 40 
Hudsonian Godwit 11 
Marbled Godwit 2 
Ruddy Turnstone 47 
Red Knot 55 
Sanderling 129 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 138 
Western Sandpiper 24 
Least Sandpiper 117 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
White-rumped Sandpiper 91 
Baird's Sandpiper 12 
Pectoral Sandpiper 45 
Purple Sandpiper 39 
Dunlin 150 
Curlew Sandpiper 20 
Stilt Sandpiper 47 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 9 
Short-billed Dowitcher 106 
Long-billed Dowitcher 18 
Wilson's Snipe 23 
American Woodcock 45 
Wilson's Phalarope 16 
Red-necked Phalarope 1 
Black-legged Kittiwake 22 
Bonaparte's Gull 92 
Black-headed Gull 13 
Little Gull 1 
Laughing Gull 55 
Ring-billed Gull 281 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Herring Gull 319 
Iceland Gull 12 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 4 
Glaucous Gull 3 
Great Black-backed Gull 310 
Least Tern 106 
Gull-billed Tern 7 
Caspian Tern 14 
Black Tern 3 
Roseate Tern 15 
Common Tern 115 
Forster's Tern 20 
Royal Tern 4 
Sandwich Tern 1 
Black Skimmer 23 
Pomarine Jaeger 3 
Dovekie 1 
Thick-billed Murre 1 
Razorbill 57 
Black Guillemot 3 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Rock Pigeon 204 
Mourning Dove 272 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 23 
Black-billed Cuckoo 29 
Great Horned Owl 15 
Snowy Owl 76 
Barred Owl 4 
Short-eared Owl 24 
Common Nighthawk 5 
Chuck-will's-widow 1 
Eastern Whip-poor-will 20 
Chimney Swift 37 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 38 
Belted Kingfisher 33 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 8 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 21 
Downy Woodpecker 161 
Hairy Woodpecker 31 
Northern Flicker 109 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 3 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Eastern Wood-Pewee 17 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 13 
Acadian Flycatcher 1 
Alder Flycatcher 18 
Willow Flycatcher 69 
Least Flycatcher 15 
Eastern Phoebe 98 
Great Crested Flycatcher 43 
Western Kingbird 2 
Eastern Kingbird 122 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 24 
Northern Shrike 36 
White-eyed Vireo 6 
Yellow-throated Vireo 4 
Blue-headed Vireo 40 
Warbling Vireo 17 
Philadelphia Vireo 7 
Red-eyed Vireo 68 
Blue Jay 275 
American Crow 313 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Fish Crow 4 
Common Raven 3 
Horned Lark 71 
Purple Martin 104 
Tree Swallow 168 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 13 
Bank Swallow 68 
Cliff Swallow 9 
Cave Swallow 2 
Barn Swallow 129 
Black-capped Chickadee 299 
Tufted Titmouse 22 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 101 
White-breasted Nuthatch 42 
Brown Creeper 45 
Carolina Wren 57 
House Wren 42 
Winter Wren 13 
Marsh Wren 100 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 9 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Golden-crowned Kinglet 70 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 61 
Eastern Bluebird 3 
Veery 21 
Swainson's Thrush 20 
Hermit Thrush 65 
Wood Thrush 14 
American Robin 308 
Gray Catbird 181 
Northern Mockingbird 284 
Brown Thrasher 160 
European Starling 287 
American Pipit 42 
Bohemian Waxwing 1 
Cedar Waxwing 156 
Lapland Longspur 23 
Snow Bunting 70 
Blue-winged Warbler 5 
Tennessee Warbler 8 
Orange-crowned Warbler 6 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Nashville Warbler 28 
Northern Parula 47 
Yellow Warbler 113 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 18 
Magnolia Warbler 43 
Cape May Warbler 8 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 35 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 91 
Black-throated Green Warbler 43 
Blackburnian Warbler 23 
Pine Warbler 18 
Prairie Warbler 12 
Palm Warbler 47 
Bay-breasted Warbler 13 
Blackpoll Warbler 55 
Black-and-white Warbler 48 
American Redstart 94 
Worm-eating Warbler 2 
Ovenbird 32 
Northern Waterthrush 39 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Louisiana Waterthrush 1 
Kentucky Warbler 4 
Connecticut Warbler 2 
Mourning Warbler 18 
Common Yellowthroat 135 
Hooded Warbler 2 
Wilson's Warbler 29 
Canada Warbler 22 
Eastern Towhee 187 
American Tree Sparrow 108 
Chipping Sparrow 54 
Clay-colored Sparrow 7 
Field Sparrow 91 
Savannah Sparrow 152 
Grasshopper Sparrow 1 
Nelson's Sparrow 7 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 81 
Seaside Sparrow 42 
Fox Sparrow 4 
Song Sparrow 264 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Lincoln's Sparrow 16 
Swamp Sparrow 79 
White-throated Sparrow 132 
White-crowned Sparrow 35 
Dark-eyed Junco 97 
Summer Tanager 8 
Scarlet Tanager 21 
Northern Cardinal 269 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 29 
Indigo Bunting 14 
Dickcissel 4 
Bobolink 100 
Red-winged Blackbird 156 
Eastern Meadowlark 40 
Rusty Blackbird 8 
Common Grackle 159 
Brown-headed Cowbird 112 
Orchard Oriole 45 
Baltimore Oriole 92 
Purple Finch 89 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
House Finch 113 
White-winged Crossbill 4 
Common Redpoll 11 
Pine Siskin 13 
American Goldfinch 244 
House Sparrow 189 

Total species 286. Total reports 48,704. Total sightings 20,081.

January 1, 2011, Tom Wetmore