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2024 Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore


This table shows the 2024 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 2024.


Status of the Birds of Plum Island — updated September 17, 2024 — day 261

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Snow Goose
Brant 58 
Canada Goose 256 
Mute Swan 198 
Wood Duck
Blue-winged Teal 38 
Northern Shoveler 68 
Gadwall 245 
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon 34 
Mallard 256 
American Black Duck 244 
Northern Pintail 129 
Green-winged Teal 228 
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup 99 
Lesser Scaup 100 
Common Eider 217 
Surf Scoter 100 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
White-winged Scoter 142 
Black Scoter 120 
Long-tailed Duck 140 
Bufflehead 125 
Common Goldeneye 108 
Hooded Merganser 89 
Common Merganser 45 
Red-breasted Merganser 138 
Ruddy Duck 57 
Wild Turkey 110 
Ring-necked Pheasant
Pied-billed Grebe 27 
Horned Grebe 105 
Red-necked Grebe 30 
Rock Pigeon 173 
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove 238 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo 22 
Common Nighthawk
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Eastern Whip-poor-will 32 
Chimney Swift 41 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 50 
King Rail 16 
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail 75 
Sora 16 
American Coot 27 
American Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover 90 
American Golden-Plover 14 
Killdeer 200 
Semipalmated Plover 116 
Piping Plover 138 
Whimbrel 32 
Hudsonian Godwit 15 
Ruddy Turnstone 38 
Red Knot 34 
Ruff
Stilt Sandpiper 67 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Curlew Sandpiper
Sanderling 146 
Dunlin 118 
Purple Sandpiper 11 
Baird's Sandpiper 10 
Least Sandpiper 119 
White-rumped Sandpiper 72 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper 31 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 123 
Western Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher 104 
Long-billed Dowitcher 56 
American Woodcock 30 
Wilson's Snipe 10 
Spotted Sandpiper 91 
Solitary Sandpiper 12 
Lesser Yellowlegs 123 
Willet 127 
Greater Yellowlegs 156 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Pomarine Jaeger
Dovekie
Razorbill 32 
Black Guillemot 22 
Black-legged Kittiwake
Bonaparte's Gull 22 
Black-headed Gull
Laughing Gull 52 
Ring-billed Gull 207 
Herring Gull 256 
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull 23 
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull 249 
Least Tern 113 
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Roseate Tern 47 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Tern 135 
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern 23 
Black Skimmer
Red-throated Loon 108 
Pacific Loon
Common Loon 220 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Cory's Shearwater 10 
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet 57 
Great Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant 183 
American Bittern 42 
Least Bittern 86 
Great Blue Heron 146 
Great Egret 176 
Snowy Egret 153 
Little Blue Heron 12 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Tricolored Heron 17 
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron 97 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 39 
Glossy Ibis 50 
Turkey Vulture 120 
Osprey 173 
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier 195 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 40 
Cooper's Hawk 79 
Bald Eagle 136 
Mississippi Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk 21 
Red-tailed Hawk 104 
Rough-legged Hawk 27 
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Short-eared Owl 50 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Belted Kingfisher 61 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 29 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker 185 
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker 169 
American Kestrel 36 
Merlin 90 
Peregrine Falcon 92 
Great Crested Flycatcher 108 
Eastern Kingbird 127 
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee 65 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 12 
Alder Flycatcher 14 
Willow Flycatcher 92 
Least Flycatcher 21 
Eastern Phoebe 91 
White-eyed Vireo 14 
Yellow-throated Vireo
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Blue-headed Vireo 28 
Philadelphia Vireo
Warbling Vireo 22 
Red-eyed Vireo 116 
Northern Shrike
Blue Jay 235 
American Crow 247 
Fish Crow 34 
Common Raven 83 
Black-capped Chickadee 255 
Tufted Titmouse 39 
Horned Lark 43 
Bank Swallow 56 
Tree Swallow 160 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 10 
Purple Martin 125 
Barn Swallow 149 
Cliff Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 38 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 55 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Cedar Waxwing 135 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 33 
White-breasted Nuthatch 63 
Brown Creeper 13 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 18 
House Wren 99 
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren 168 
Carolina Wren 196 
Gray Catbird 192 
Brown Thrasher 142 
Northern Mockingbird 251 
European Starling 228 
Eastern Bluebird
Veery 20 
Swainson's Thrush 18 
Hermit Thrush 78 
Wood Thrush
American Robin 255 
House Sparrow 235 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Pipit
House Finch 240 
Purple Finch 136 
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch 230 
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting 18 
Chipping Sparrow 47 
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow 116 
Fox Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow 90 
Dark-eyed Junco 68 
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow 133 
Vesper Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow 40 
Nelson's Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sparrow 97 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Savannah Sparrow 104 
Song Sparrow 253 
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow 153 
Eastern Towhee 170 
Bobolink 108 
Eastern Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole 87 
Baltimore Oriole 121 
Red-winged Blackbird 224 
Brown-headed Cowbird 111 
Rusty Blackbird 10 
Common Grackle 199 
Ovenbird 43 
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush 30 
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler 62 
Tennessee Warbler 13 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler 25 
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler 10 
Common Yellowthroat 140 
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart 124 
Cape May Warbler 17 
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula 46 
Magnolia Warbler 36 
Bay-breasted Warbler 19 
Blackburnian Warbler 25 
Yellow Warbler 134 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 25 
Blackpoll Warbler 30 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 25 
Palm Warbler 26 
Pine Warbler 17 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 132 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Prairie Warbler 13 
Black-throated Green Warbler 33 
Canada Warbler 20 
Wilson's Warbler 24 
Scarlet Tanager 20 
Northern Cardinal 254 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 63 
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel

Total species 270. Total reports 66,527. Total sightings 19,269.

September 17, 2024, Tom Wetmore