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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 January 1, 2025 — day 1

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Snow Goose
Brant 74 
Canada Goose 358 
Mute Swan 257 
Wood Duck 15 
Blue-winged Teal 42 
Northern Shoveler 80 
Gadwall 328 
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon 97 
Mallard 358 
American Black Duck 346 
Northern Pintail 225 
Green-winged Teal 319 
Ring-necked Duck 10 
Greater Scaup 122 
Lesser Scaup 113 
King Eider
Common Eider 311 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter 175 
White-winged Scoter 235 
Black Scoter 204 
Long-tailed Duck 207 
Bufflehead 190 
Common Goldeneye 146 
Hooded Merganser 145 
Common Merganser 49 
Red-breasted Merganser 214 
Ruddy Duck 59 
Wild Turkey 144 
Ring-necked Pheasant
Pied-billed Grebe 46 
Horned Grebe 170 
Red-necked Grebe 70 
Rock Pigeon 261 
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove 330 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-billed Cuckoo 22 
Common Nighthawk
Eastern Whip-poor-will 32 
Chimney Swift 41 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 50 
King Rail 16 
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail 77 
Sora 19 
American Coot 27 
American Oystercatcher 10 
Black-bellied Plover 157 
American Golden-Plover 36 
Killdeer 223 
Common Ringed Plover
Semipalmated Plover 173 
Piping Plover 138 
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel 34 
Hudsonian Godwit 15 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ruddy Turnstone 51 
Red Knot 36 
Ruff
Stilt Sandpiper 69 
Curlew Sandpiper
Sanderling 225 
Dunlin 205 
Purple Sandpiper 16 
Baird's Sandpiper 10 
Least Sandpiper 130 
White-rumped Sandpiper 106 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper 41 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 167 
Western Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher 116 
Long-billed Dowitcher 94 
American Woodcock 34 
Wilson's Snipe 10 
Spotted Sandpiper 94 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Solitary Sandpiper 12 
Lesser Yellowlegs 144 
Willet 127 
Greater Yellowlegs 227 
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Dovekie
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre
Razorbill 69 
Black Guillemot 97 
Black-legged Kittiwake
Bonaparte's Gull 39 
Black-headed Gull
Laughing Gull 72 
Ring-billed Gull 299 
Herring Gull 358 
Iceland Gull
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Lesser Black-backed Gull 27 
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull 349 
Least Tern 113 
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Roseate Tern 47 
Common Tern 143 
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern 33 
Black Skimmer
Red-throated Loon 180 
Pacific Loon
Common Loon 316 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Cory's Shearwater 41 
Sooty Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet 146 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Great Cormorant 23 
Double-crested Cormorant 265 
American Bittern 50 
Least Bittern 86 
Great Blue Heron 232 
Great Egret 232 
Snowy Egret 184 
Little Blue Heron 12 
Tricolored Heron 17 
Green Heron 10 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 116 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 45 
Glossy Ibis 50 
Turkey Vulture 152 
Osprey 209 
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier 297 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 61 
Cooper's Hawk 143 
Bald Eagle 170 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Mississippi Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk 22 
Red-tailed Hawk 155 
Rough-legged Hawk 36 
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl 11 
Barred Owl 43 
Short-eared Owl 69 
Belted Kingfisher 84 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 37 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 34 
Downy Woodpecker 276 
Hairy Woodpecker 25 
Northern Flicker 228 
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel 37 
Merlin 135 
Peregrine Falcon 148 
Great Crested Flycatcher 110 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Eastern Kingbird 127 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee 68 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 13 
Alder Flycatcher 14 
Willow Flycatcher 92 
Least Flycatcher 24 
Eastern Phoebe 115 
White-eyed Vireo 14 
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo 48 
Philadelphia Vireo
Warbling Vireo 22 
Red-eyed Vireo 142 
Northern Shrike 10 
Blue Jay 336 
American Crow 337 
Fish Crow 34 
Common Raven 127 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-capped Chickadee 357 
Tufted Titmouse 47 
Horned Lark 70 
Bank Swallow 56 
Tree Swallow 173 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 10 
Purple Martin 125 
Barn Swallow 157 
Cliff Swallow
Cave Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 71 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 126 
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing 161 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 110 
White-breasted Nuthatch 117 
Brown Creeper 35 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 18 
House Wren 105 
Winter Wren 10 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Marsh Wren 188 
Carolina Wren 270 
Gray Catbird 245 
Brown Thrasher 157 
Northern Mockingbird 344 
European Starling 310 
Eastern Bluebird
Veery 21 
Swainson's Thrush 21 
Hermit Thrush 132 
Wood Thrush
American Robin 357 
House Sparrow 313 
American Pipit 38 
House Finch 315 
Purple Finch 167 
Common Redpoll
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
Pine Siskin 28 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Goldfinch 319 
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting 49 
Lark Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Chipping Sparrow 73 
Clay-colored Sparrow 11 
Field Sparrow 151 
Fox Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow 145 
Dark-eyed Junco 145 
White-crowned Sparrow 24 
White-throated Sparrow 228 
Vesper Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow 43 
Nelson's Sparrow 13 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 122 
Savannah Sparrow 155 
Song Sparrow 355 
Lincoln's Sparrow 15 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Swamp Sparrow 220 
Eastern Towhee 237 
Bobolink 110 
Eastern Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole 87 
Baltimore Oriole 127 
Red-winged Blackbird 251 
Brown-headed Cowbird 111 
Rusty Blackbird 12 
Common Grackle 211 
Ovenbird 43 
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush 31 
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler 69 
Tennessee Warbler 15 
Orange-crowned Warbler 16 
Nashville Warbler 28 
Connecticut Warbler
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Mourning Warbler 10 
Common Yellowthroat 162 
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart 134 
Cape May Warbler 23 
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula 51 
Magnolia Warbler 40 
Bay-breasted Warbler 21 
Blackburnian Warbler 25 
Yellow Warbler 138 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 25 
Blackpoll Warbler 45 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 37 
Palm Warbler 45 
Pine Warbler 21 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 185 
Prairie Warbler 16 
Black-throated Green Warbler 40 
Canada Warbler 21 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Wilson's Warbler 26 
Scarlet Tanager 22 
Northern Cardinal 354 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 65 
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel

Total species 287. Total reports 86,415. Total sightings 26,143.

January 1, 2025, Tom Wetmore