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2018 Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore


This table shows the 2018 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 2018.


Status of the Birds of Plum Island — updated January 2, 2019 — day 2

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose
Brant 66 
Canada Goose 322 
Mute Swan 167 
Wood Duck 20 
Blue-winged Teal 11 
Northern Shoveler 69 
Gadwall 215 
Eurasian Wigeon 13 
American Wigeon 65 
Mallard 320 
American Black Duck 320 
Northern Pintail 112 
Green-winged Teal 213 
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck 10 
Greater Scaup 18 
Lesser Scaup 17 
King Eider 18 
Common Eider 205 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Surf Scoter 90 
White-winged Scoter 185 
Black Scoter 177 
Long-tailed Duck 163 
Bufflehead 129 
Common Goldeneye 121 
Hooded Merganser 84 
Common Merganser 10 
Red-breasted Merganser 167 
Ruddy Duck 29 
Wild Turkey 168 
Pied-billed Grebe 15 
Horned Grebe 116 
Red-necked Grebe 56 
Rock Pigeon 232 
Mourning Dove 258 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 26 
Black-billed Cuckoo 26 
Common Nighthawk
Eastern Whip-poor-will
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Chimney Swift 22 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 29 
Virginia Rail
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot 16 
American Avocet
American Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover 176 
American Golden-Plover 12 
Semipalmated Plover 158 
Piping Plover 131 
Killdeer 176 
Whimbrel 29 
Hudsonian Godwit 10 
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone 60 
Red Knot 28 
Stilt Sandpiper 42 
Sanderling 139 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Dunlin 123 
Purple Sandpiper 54 
Baird's Sandpiper 18 
Least Sandpiper 110 
White-rumped Sandpiper 87 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 11 
Pectoral Sandpiper 40 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 160 
Western Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher 104 
Long-billed Dowitcher 39 
American Woodcock 23 
Wilson's Snipe
Spotted Sandpiper 97 
Solitary Sandpiper 10 
Lesser Yellowlegs 121 
Willet 113 
Greater Yellowlegs 209 
Wilson's Phalarope
Red Phalarope
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Parasitic Jaeger
Dovekie
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre
Razorbill 52 
Black Guillemot
Atlantic Puffin
Black-legged Kittiwake
Bonaparte's Gull 57 
Little Gull
Laughing Gull 26 
Ring-billed Gull 241 
Herring Gull 337 
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull 19 
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull 311 
Least Tern 111 
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Roseate Tern 35 
Common Tern 110 
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Red-throated Loon 106 
Common Loon 217 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Northern Gannet 96 
Double-crested Cormorant 226 
Great Cormorant 34 
American White Pelican
American Bittern 18 
Least Bittern 33 
Great Blue Heron 182 
Great Egret 209 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snowy Egret 172 
Little Blue Heron 11 
Tricolored Heron 18 
Green Heron 12 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 90 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 19 
Glossy Ibis 58 
Turkey Vulture 120 
Osprey 184 
Bald Eagle 106 
Northern Harrier 224 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 32 
Cooper's Hawk 101 
Northern Goshawk
Red-shouldered Hawk 12 
Red-tailed Hawk 170 
Rough-legged Hawk 78 
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl 11 
Snowy Owl 121 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Barred Owl 11 
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl 12 
Belted Kingfisher 52 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 45 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 24 
Downy Woodpecker 228 
Hairy Woodpecker 45 
Northern Flicker 130 
American Kestrel 38 
Merlin 84 
Peregrine Falcon 144 
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee 22 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher 13 
Willow Flycatcher 87 
Least Flycatcher 14 
Eastern Phoebe 106 
Great Crested Flycatcher 87 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird 129 
Northern Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo 32 
Philadelphia Vireo 16 
Warbling Vireo 11 
Red-eyed Vireo 111 
Blue Jay 295 
American Crow 309 
Fish Crow 12 
Common Raven 63 
Horned Lark 42 
Purple Martin 119 
Tree Swallow 184 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 13 
Bank Swallow 69 
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow 139 
Black-capped Chickadee 328 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Tufted Titmouse 41 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 213 
White-breasted Nuthatch 14 
Brown Creeper 25 
House Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren 143 
Carolina Wren 52 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 13 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 68 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 58 
Veery 15 
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 17 
Hermit Thrush 98 
Wood Thrush
American Robin 324 
Gray Catbird 198 
Brown Thrasher 137 
Northern Mockingbird 308 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
European Starling 277 
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing 171 
House Sparrow 242 
American Pipit 30 
Evening Grosbeak
Pine Grosbeak
House Finch 207 
Purple Finch 166 
Common Redpoll 14 
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin 19 
American Goldfinch 269 
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting 53 
Eastern Towhee 185 
American Tree Sparrow 129 
Chipping Sparrow 75 
Clay-colored Sparrow 20 
Field Sparrow 115 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow 130 
Grasshopper Sparrow
Nelson's Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sparrow 111 
Seaside Sparrow 49 
Fox Sparrow 19 
Song Sparrow 294 
Lincoln's Sparrow 14 
Swamp Sparrow 138 
White-throated Sparrow 115 
White-crowned Sparrow 46 
Dark-eyed Junco 115 
Yellow-breasted Chat
Bobolink 120 
Eastern Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole 73 
Baltimore Oriole 119 
Red-winged Blackbird 199 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Brown-headed Cowbird 118 
Rusty Blackbird 14 
Common Grackle 182 
Ovenbird 30 
Northern Waterthrush 36 
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler 46 
Prothonotary Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler 25 
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat 143 
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart 113 
Cape May Warbler 19 
Northern Parula 33 
Magnolia Warbler 31 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bay-breasted Warbler 21 
Blackburnian Warbler 21 
Yellow Warbler 119 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 24 
Blackpoll Warbler 43 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 35 
Palm Warbler 27 
Pine Warbler 71 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 163 
Prairie Warbler 14 
Black-throated Green Warbler 36 
Canada Warbler 18 
Wilson's Warbler 23 
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager 12 
Northern Cardinal 293 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 31 
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel 12 

Total species 279. Total reports 38,854. Total sightings 20,812.

January 2, 2019, Tom Wetmore