2008 Year Lists from
Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Here are the current standings in the 2008 Plum Island year list contest. If you'd like to enter the contest send me an email so I can add you to the list of contestants. Then send me your sightings each time you bird on Plum Island, and my magical software will do the rest.

We haven't figured out what it means to win this contest. Plenty of time to figure that out.

	Species
		231	221	219	208	206	200	198	195	190	175	171	171	163	158	156	155	154	153	101	95	62
Snow Goose	1
Brant	2
Canada Goose	3
Mute Swan	4
Wood Duck	5
Gadwall	6
American Wigeon	7
American Black Duck	8
Mallard	9
Blue-winged Teal	10
Northern Shoveler	11
Northern Pintail	12
Green-winged Teal	13
Canvasback	14
Ring-necked Duck	15
Greater Scaup	16
Lesser Scaup	17
Common Eider	18
Surf Scoter	19
White-winged Scoter	20
Black Scoter	21
Long-tailed Duck	22
Bufflehead	23
Common Goldeneye	24
Hooded Merganser	25
Common Merganser	26
Red-breasted Merganser	27
Ruddy Duck	28
Ring-necked Pheasant	29
Wild Turkey	30
Red-throated Loon	31
Pacific Loon	32
Common Loon	33
Pied-billed Grebe	34
Horned Grebe	35
Red-necked Grebe	36
Sooty Shearwater	37
Manx Shearwater	38
Wilson's Storm-Petrel	39
Northern Gannet	40
Double-crested Cormorant	41
Great Cormorant	42
American Bittern	43
Least Bittern	44
Great Blue Heron	45
Great Egret	46
Snowy Egret	47
Little Blue Heron	48
Tricolored Heron	49
Green Heron	50
Black-crowned Night-Heron	51
Glossy Ibis	52
Turkey Vulture	53
Osprey	54
Bald Eagle	55
Northern Harrier	56
Sharp-shinned Hawk	57
Cooper's Hawk	58
Northern Goshawk	59
Red-shouldered Hawk	60
Broad-winged Hawk	61
Red-tailed Hawk	62
Rough-legged Hawk	63
American Kestrel	64
Merlin	65
Peregrine Falcon	66
King Rail	67
Virginia Rail	68
Sora	69
Common Moorhen	70
American Coot	71
Sandhill Crane	72
Black-bellied Plover	73
American Golden-Plover	74
Semipalmated Plover	75
Piping Plover	76
Killdeer	77
Spotted Sandpiper	78
Solitary Sandpiper	79
Greater Yellowlegs	80
Willet	81
Lesser Yellowlegs	82
Whimbrel	83
Ruddy Turnstone	84
Red Knot	85
Sanderling	86
Semipalmated Sandpiper	87
Least Sandpiper	88
White-rumped Sandpiper	89
Pectoral Sandpiper	90
Purple Sandpiper	91
Dunlin	92
Stilt Sandpiper	93
Ruff	94
Short-billed Dowitcher	95
Wilson's Snipe	96
American Woodcock	97
Wilson's Phalarope	98
Laughing Gull	99
Franklin's Gull	100
Little Gull	101
Bonaparte's Gull	102
Ring-billed Gull	103
Herring Gull	104
Iceland Gull	105
Lesser Black-backed Gull	106
Glaucous Gull	107
Great Black-backed Gull	108
Black-legged Kittiwake	109
Least Tern	110
Gull-billed Tern	111
Caspian Tern	112
Black Tern	113
Roseate Tern	114
Common Tern	115
Forster's Tern	116
Royal Tern	117
Black Skimmer	118
Parasitic Jaeger	119
Common Murre	120
Thick-billed Murre	121
Razorbill	122
Black Guillemot	123
Rock Pigeon	124
Mourning Dove	125
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	126
Black-billed Cuckoo	127
Eastern Screech-Owl	128
Great Horned Owl	129
Snowy Owl	130
Barred Owl	131
Short-eared Owl	132
Northern Saw-whet Owl	133
Common Nighthawk	134
Whip-poor-will	135
Chimney Swift	136