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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 7, 2025 — day 311

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 1 
Brant 80 
Canada Goose 300 
Mute Swan 200 
Wood Duck 19 
Blue-winged Teal 38 
Northern Shoveler 45 
Gadwall 252 
Eurasian Wigeon 31 
American Wigeon 64 
Mallard 300 
American Black Duck 290 
Northern Pintail 121 
Green-winged Teal 225 
Canvasback 1 
Ring-necked Duck 7 
Greater Scaup 52 
Lesser Scaup 29 
King Eider 1 
Common Eider 251 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Surf Scoter 121 
White-winged Scoter 170 
Black Scoter 192 
Long-tailed Duck 154 
Bufflehead 121 
Common Goldeneye 103 
Hooded Merganser 83 
Common Merganser 18 
Red-breasted Merganser 161 
Ruddy Duck 19 
Wild Turkey 189 
Pied-billed Grebe 30 
Horned Grebe 95 
Red-necked Grebe 51 
Rock Pigeon 212 
Mourning Dove 278 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 9 
Black-billed Cuckoo 24 
Common Nighthawk 5 
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 6 
Clapper Rail 40 
Virginia Rail 7 
Sora 3 
Common Gallinule 5 
American Coot 48 
Purple Gallinule 1 
Sandhill Crane 1 
Black-necked Stilt 11 
American Avocet 18 
American Oystercatcher 26 
Black-bellied Plover 153 
American Golden-Plover 61 
Killdeer 198 
Semipalmated Plover 170 
Piping Plover 141 
Upland Sandpiper 2 
Whimbrel 37 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hudsonian Godwit 10 
Ruddy Turnstone 47 
Red Knot 34 
Ruff 8 
Stilt Sandpiper 67 
Sanderling 167 
Dunlin 165 
Purple Sandpiper 12 
Baird's Sandpiper 7 
Least Sandpiper 140 
White-rumped Sandpiper 131 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 2 
Pectoral Sandpiper 56 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 170 
Western Sandpiper 5 
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 216 
Wilson's Phalarope 12 
Red-necked Phalarope 4 
Parasitic Jaeger 2 
Dovekie 1 
Thick-billed Murre 1 
Razorbill 38 
Black Guillemot 1 
Black-legged Kittiwake 2 
Bonaparte's Gull 66 
Little Gull 1 
Laughing Gull 84 
Ring-billed Gull 251 
Herring Gull 304 
Iceland Gull 4 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 32 
Glaucous Gull 1 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Great Black-backed Gull 285 
Least Tern 111 
Caspian Tern 8 
Black Tern 3 
Roseate Tern 58 
Common Tern 133 
Arctic Tern 6 
Forster's Tern 9 
Black Skimmer 2 
Red-throated Loon 100 
Common Loon 244 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 10 
Cory's Shearwater 1 
Sooty Shearwater 2 
Manx Shearwater 6 
Northern Gannet 99 
Great Cormorant 28 
Double-crested Cormorant 230 
American Bittern 8 
Least Bittern 72 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Great Blue Heron 202 
Great Egret 230 
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 1 
Black Vulture 1 
Turkey Vulture 147 
Osprey 186 
Golden Eagle 1 
Northern Harrier 240 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 40 
Cooper's Hawk 88 
Bald Eagle 120 
Red-shouldered Hawk 5 
Broad-winged Hawk 1 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Swainson's Hawk 8 
Red-tailed Hawk 71 
Rough-legged Hawk 21 
Great Horned Owl 5 
Snowy Owl 37 
Barred Owl 29 
Short-eared Owl 37 
Belted Kingfisher 69 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 36 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 34 
Downy Woodpecker 216 
Hairy Woodpecker 52 
Northern Flicker 196 
Pileated Woodpecker 1 
American Kestrel 42 
Merlin 132 
Peregrine Falcon 108 
Great Crested Flycatcher 106 
Western Kingbird 3 
Eastern Kingbird 135 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 2 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 5 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 60 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 13 
Alder Flycatcher 35 
Willow Flycatcher 88 
Least Flycatcher 32 
Eastern Phoebe 106 
White-eyed Vireo 9 
Yellow-throated Vireo 4 
Blue-headed Vireo 48 
Philadelphia Vireo 17 
Warbling Vireo 25 
Red-eyed Vireo 125 
Northern Shrike 4 
Blue Jay 278 
American Crow 228 
Fish Crow 61 
Common Raven 152 
Black-capped Chickadee 297 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Tufted Titmouse 53 
Horned Lark 48 
Bank Swallow 53 
Tree Swallow 191 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 16 
Purple Martin 128 
Barn Swallow 152 
Cliff Swallow 5 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 54 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 71 
Cedar Waxwing 165 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 120 
White-breasted Nuthatch 67 
Brown Creeper 49 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 49 
House Wren 74 
Winter Wren 16 
Marsh Wren 162 
Carolina Wren 139 
Gray Catbird 204 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Brown Thrasher 165 
Northern Mockingbird 282 
European Starling 271 
Eastern Bluebird 6 
Veery 20 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 2 
Swainson's Thrush 32 
Hermit Thrush 94 
Wood Thrush 15 
American Robin 301 
House Sparrow 264 
American Pipit 37 
House Finch 255 
Purple Finch 149 
Pine Siskin 10 
American Goldfinch 245 
Lapland Longspur 7 
Snow Bunting 25 
Lark Sparrow 1 
Chipping Sparrow 93 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Clay-colored Sparrow 14 
Field Sparrow 98 
Fox Sparrow 18 
American Tree Sparrow 89 
Dark-eyed Junco 115 
White-crowned Sparrow 25 
White-throated Sparrow 130 
Vesper Sparrow 4 
Seaside Sparrow 67 
Nelson's Sparrow 19 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 132 
Savannah Sparrow 108 
Song Sparrow 294 
Lincoln's Sparrow 25 
Swamp Sparrow 164 
Eastern Towhee 197 
Yellow-breasted Chat 12 
Bobolink 113 
Eastern Meadowlark 10 
Orchard Oriole 84 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Baltimore Oriole 137 
Red-winged Blackbird 231 
Brown-headed Cowbird 118 
Rusty Blackbird 1 
Common Grackle 212 
Ovenbird 68 
Worm-eating Warbler 2 
Northern Waterthrush 35 
Blue-winged Warbler 4 
Black-and-white Warbler 63 
Prothonotary Warbler 4 
Tennessee Warbler 16 
Orange-crowned Warbler 5 
Nashville Warbler 40 
Connecticut Warbler 6 
Mourning Warbler 13 
Common Yellowthroat 160 
Hooded Warbler 1 
American Redstart 139 
Cape May Warbler 28 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
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 93 
Yellow-throated Warbler 1 
Prairie Warbler 20 
Black-throated Green Warbler 51 
Canada Warbler 18 
Wilson's Warbler 32 
Summer Tanager 3 
Scarlet Tanager 23 
Northern Cardinal 292 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 59 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Blue Grosbeak 4 
Indigo Bunting 13 
Dickcissel 16 

Total species 283. Total reports 84,127. Total sightings 22,352.

November 7, 2025, Tom Wetmore