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2025 Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore


This table shows the 2025 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 2025.


Status of the Birds of Plum Island — updated November 21, 2025 — day 325

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose
Brant 81 
Canada Goose 314 
Mute Swan 210 
Wood Duck 20 
Blue-winged Teal 38 
Northern Shoveler 57 
Gadwall 266 
Eurasian Wigeon 31 
American Wigeon 74 
Mallard 314 
American Black Duck 304 
Northern Pintail 135 
Green-winged Teal 239 
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup 61 
Lesser Scaup 37 
King Eider
Common Eider 264 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Surf Scoter 133 
White-winged Scoter 183 
Black Scoter 205 
Long-tailed Duck 168 
Bufflehead 135 
Common Goldeneye 108 
Hooded Merganser 97 
Common Merganser 20 
Red-breasted Merganser 175 
Ruddy Duck 19 
Wild Turkey 190 
Pied-billed Grebe 30 
Horned Grebe 108 
Red-necked Grebe 59 
Rock Pigeon 224 
Mourning Dove 290 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo 24 
Common Nighthawk
Eastern Whip-poor-will 27 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Chimney Swift 48 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 54 
King Rail
Clapper Rail 40 
Virginia Rail
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot 57 
Purple Gallinule
Sandhill Crane
Black-necked Stilt 11 
American Avocet 18 
American Oystercatcher 26 
Black-bellied Plover 164 
American Golden-Plover 63 
Killdeer 199 
Semipalmated Plover 177 
Piping Plover 141 
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel 37 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hudsonian Godwit 10 
Ruddy Turnstone 47 
Red Knot 34 
Ruff
Stilt Sandpiper 67 
Sanderling 177 
Dunlin 178 
Purple Sandpiper 13 
Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper 140 
White-rumped Sandpiper 135 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper 56 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 175 
Western Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher 119 
Long-billed Dowitcher 60 
American Woodcock 33 
Wilson's Snipe 27 
Spotted Sandpiper 84 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Solitary Sandpiper 12 
Lesser Yellowlegs 154 
Willet 138 
Greater Yellowlegs 226 
Wilson's Phalarope 12 
Red-necked Phalarope
Parasitic Jaeger
Dovekie
Thick-billed Murre
Razorbill 38 
Black Guillemot
Black-legged Kittiwake
Bonaparte's Gull 69 
Little Gull
Laughing Gull 84 
Ring-billed Gull 265 
Herring Gull 318 
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull 32 
Glaucous Gull
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Great Black-backed Gull 299 
Least Tern 111 
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Roseate Tern 58 
Common Tern 133 
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Skimmer
Red-throated Loon 113 
Common Loon 257 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 10 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet 112 
Great Cormorant 28 
Double-crested Cormorant 244 
American Bittern
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Least Bittern 72 
Great Blue Heron 214 
Great Egret 240 
Snowy Egret 198 
Little Blue Heron 12 
Tricolored Heron 33 
Green Heron 10 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 96 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 28 
Glossy Ibis 76 
White-faced Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture 148 
Osprey 186 
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier 254 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 41 
Cooper's Hawk 95 
Bald Eagle 125 
Red-shouldered Hawk
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Broad-winged Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk 75 
Rough-legged Hawk 23 
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl 37 
Barred Owl 29 
Short-eared Owl 37 
Belted Kingfisher 69 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 38 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 35 
Downy Woodpecker 228 
Hairy Woodpecker 61 
Northern Flicker 208 
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel 42 
Merlin 134 
Peregrine Falcon 112 
Great Crested Flycatcher 106 
Western Kingbird
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Eastern Kingbird 135 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee 60 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 13 
Alder Flycatcher 35 
Willow Flycatcher 88 
Least Flycatcher 32 
Eastern Phoebe 108 
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo 48 
Philadelphia Vireo 17 
Warbling Vireo 25 
Red-eyed Vireo 126 
Northern Shrike
Blue Jay 291 
American Crow 242 
Fish Crow 61 
Common Raven 161 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-capped Chickadee 311 
Tufted Titmouse 56 
Horned Lark 58 
Bank Swallow 53 
Tree Swallow 191 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 16 
Purple Martin 128 
Barn Swallow 152 
Cliff Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 54 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 75 
Cedar Waxwing 173 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 133 
White-breasted Nuthatch 68 
Brown Creeper 55 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 49 
House Wren 74 
Winter Wren 17 
Marsh Wren 164 
Carolina Wren 147 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Gray Catbird 213 
Brown Thrasher 165 
Northern Mockingbird 296 
European Starling 284 
Eastern Bluebird
Veery 20 
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 32 
Hermit Thrush 96 
Wood Thrush 15 
American Robin 315 
House Sparrow 277 
American Pipit 40 
House Finch 269 
Purple Finch 157 
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskin 18 
American Goldfinch 259 
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting 35 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Lark Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow 95 
Clay-colored Sparrow 14 
Field Sparrow 99 
Fox Sparrow 18 
American Tree Sparrow 102 
Dark-eyed Junco 127 
White-crowned Sparrow 27 
White-throated Sparrow 143 
Vesper Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow 67 
Nelson's Sparrow 19 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 132 
Savannah Sparrow 112 
Song Sparrow 308 
Lincoln's Sparrow 25 
Swamp Sparrow 171 
Eastern Towhee 200 
Yellow-breasted Chat 12 
Bobolink 113 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Eastern Meadowlark 10 
Orchard Oriole 84 
Baltimore Oriole 137 
Red-winged Blackbird 241 
Brown-headed Cowbird 118 
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle 212 
Ovenbird 68 
Worm-eating Warbler
Northern Waterthrush 35 
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler 63 
Prothonotary Warbler
Tennessee Warbler 16 
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler 40 
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler 13 
Common Yellowthroat 160 
Hooded Warbler
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Redstart 139 
Cape May Warbler 28 
Northern Parula 59 
Magnolia Warbler 61 
Bay-breasted Warbler 35 
Blackburnian Warbler 25 
Yellow Warbler 141 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 36 
Blackpoll Warbler 50 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 46 
Palm Warbler 45 
Pine Warbler 14 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 107 
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler 20 
Black-throated Green Warbler 51 
Canada Warbler 18 
Wilson's Warbler 32 
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager 23 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Cardinal 306 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 59 
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting 13 
Dickcissel 16 

Total species 285. Total reports 87,036. Total sightings 23,264.

November 21, 2025, Tom Wetmore