Tom’s Birding Page

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

Compiled by Tom Wetmore


This table shows the quarter-month status of the birds of Plum Island. It is based on my own data and on data collected for inclusion on the Plum Island sigthings web site.


Quarter-Month Status of the Birds of Plum Island — updated March 9, 2010

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 390 
Ross's Goose
Brant 382 
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose 2087 
Mute Swan 1258 
Wood Duck 157 
Gadwall 1728 
Eurasian Wigeon 77 
American Wigeon 586 
American Black Duck 1982 
Mallard 1953 
Blue-winged Teal 619 
Northern Shoveler 354 
Northern Pintail 1055 
Green-winged Teal 1402 
Canvasback
Redhead 18 
Ring-necked Duck 120 
Greater Scaup 295 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Lesser Scaup 154 
King Eider 19 
Common Eider 1084 
Harlequin Duck 16 
Surf Scoter 441 
White-winged Scoter 1183 
Black Scoter 777 
Long-tailed Duck 855 
Bufflehead 828 
Common Goldeneye 676 
Barrow's Goldeneye 33 
Hooded Merganser 685 
Common Merganser 162 
Red-breasted Merganser 1084 
Ruddy Duck 148 
Ring-necked Pheasant 57 
Wild Turkey 56 
Red-throated Loon 790 
Pacific Loon
Common Loon 1359 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pied-billed Grebe 269 
Horned Grebe 719 
Red-necked Grebe 513 
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe 15 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater
Greater Shearwater 26 
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater 37 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 58 
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Northern Gannet 756 
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant 1465 
Great Cormorant 276 
American Bittern 373 
Least Bittern 274 
Great Blue Heron 1267 
Great Egret 1345 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snowy Egret 1186 
Little Blue Heron 92 
Tricolored Heron 118 
Cattle Egret
Green Heron 170 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 491 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 10 
Glossy Ibis 376 
White-faced Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture 609 
Osprey 994 
Bald Eagle 259 
Northern Harrier 1863 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 397 
Cooper's Hawk 406 
Northern Goshawk 27 
Red-shouldered Hawk 10 
Broad-winged Hawk 18 
Red-tailed Hawk 568 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Rough-legged Hawk 432 
Golden Eagle
Eurasian Kestrel
American Kestrel 419 
Merlin 718 
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon 757 
Clapper Rail 82 
King Rail 114 
Virginia Rail 298 
Sora 292 
Common Moorhen 91 
American Coot 142 
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover 1010 
American Golden-Plover 215 
Pacific Golden-Plover
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover 849 
Piping Plover 502 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Killdeer 1022 
American Oystercatcher 14 
American Avocet 16 
Spotted Sandpiper 430 
Solitary Sandpiper 70 
Greater Yellowlegs 1413 
Willet 702 
Lesser Yellowlegs 833 
Upland Sandpiper 12 
Whimbrel 321 
Black-tailed Godwit 11 
Hudsonian Godwit 100 
Marbled Godwit 45 
Ruddy Turnstone 289 
Red Knot 238 
Sanderling 765 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 866 
Western Sandpiper 124 
Least Sandpiper 735 
White-rumped Sandpiper 606 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Baird's Sandpiper 146 
Pectoral Sandpiper 310 
Purple Sandpiper 197 
Dunlin 693 
Curlew Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper 243 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 102 
Ruff 10 
Short-billed Dowitcher 650 
Long-billed Dowitcher 279 
Wilson's Snipe 190 
American Woodcock 287 
Wilson's Phalarope 118 
Red-necked Phalarope 13 
Red Phalarope 12 
Black-legged Kittiwake 199 
Sabine's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull 620 
Black-headed Gull 17 
Little Gull 96 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Laughing Gull 254 
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull 1501 
Herring Gull 2071 
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull 84 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 47 
Glaucous Gull 25 
Great Black-backed Gull 1868 
Least Tern 598 
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern 47 
Black Tern 44 
Roseate Tern 117 
Common Tern 768 
Arctic Tern 14 
Forster's Tern 75 
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Pomarine Jaeger
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Parasitic Jaeger 16 
Long-tailed Jaeger
Dovekie 18 
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre 12 
Razorbill 196 
Black Guillemot 23 
Atlantic Puffin
Rock Pigeon 925 
Mourning Dove 1597 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 90 
Black-billed Cuckoo 112 
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl 177 
Snowy Owl 565 
Barred Owl 10 
Long-eared Owl 18 
Short-eared Owl 279 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 12 
Common Nighthawk 44 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Chuck-will's-widow
Whip-poor-will 88 
Chimney Swift 191 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 205 
Belted Kingfisher 285 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 99 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 115 
Downy Woodpecker 1000 
Hairy Woodpecker 127 
Northern Flicker 581 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 26 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 131 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 61 
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher 100 
Willow Flycatcher 464 
Least Flycatcher 122 
Eastern Phoebe 556 
Say's Phoebe
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher 179 
Western Kingbird 10 
Eastern Kingbird 813 
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike 429 
White-eyed Vireo 14 
Yellow-throated Vireo 17 
Blue-headed Vireo 241 
Warbling Vireo 95 
Philadelphia Vireo 87 
Red-eyed Vireo 341 
Blue Jay 1510 
American Crow 1999 
Fish Crow 24 
Common Raven
Horned Lark 658 
Purple Martin 711 
Tree Swallow 1146 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 82 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bank Swallow 430 
Cliff Swallow 70 
Cave Swallow
Barn Swallow 737 
Black-capped Chickadee 1859 
Tufted Titmouse 78 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 524 
White-breasted Nuthatch 76 
Brown Creeper 193 
Carolina Wren 338 
House Wren 164 
Winter Wren 87 
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren 916 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 453 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 435 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 102 
Northern Wheatear
Eastern Bluebird 18 
Veery 106 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Gray-cheeked Thrush 11 
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 105 
Hermit Thrush 375 
Wood Thrush 77 
American Robin 2042 
Gray Catbird 1274 
Northern Mockingbird 1790 
Sage Thrasher
Brown Thrasher 992 
European Starling 1686 
American Pipit 293 
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing 1024 
Blue-winged Warbler 36 
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler 38 
Orange-crowned Warbler 41 
Nashville Warbler 184 
Northern Parula 272 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Yellow Warbler 792 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 153 
Magnolia Warbler 275 
Cape May Warbler 50 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 271 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 845 
Black-throated Green Warbler 302 
Blackburnian Warbler 135 
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler 115 
Prairie Warbler 102 
Palm Warbler 272 
Bay-breasted Warbler 82 
Blackpoll Warbler 298 
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler 361 
American Redstart 546 
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler 14 
Swainson's Warbler
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ovenbird 154 
Northern Waterthrush 203 
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Connecticut Warbler 36 
Mourning Warbler 50 
Common Yellowthroat 829 
Hooded Warbler 22 
Wilson's Warbler 208 
Canada Warbler 134 
Yellow-breasted Chat 36 
Green-tailed Towhee 12 
Eastern Towhee 1135 
American Tree Sparrow 931 
Chipping Sparrow 299 
Clay-colored Sparrow 67 
Field Sparrow 657 
Vesper Sparrow 26 
Lark Sparrow 20 
Savannah Sparrow 1070 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Grasshopper Sparrow
Nelson's Sparrow 31 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 636 
Seaside Sparrow 251 
Fox Sparrow 66 
Song Sparrow 1848 
Lincoln's Sparrow 74 
Swamp Sparrow 441 
White-throated Sparrow 1002 
White-crowned Sparrow 214 
Dark-eyed Junco 626 
Lapland Longspur 189 
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Snow Bunting 450 
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager 116 
Northern Cardinal 1547 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 154 
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting 47 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Dickcissel 27 
Bobolink 740 
Red-winged Blackbird 1174 
Eastern Meadowlark 450 
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird 38 
Common Grackle 1030 
Brown-headed Cowbird 722 
Orchard Oriole 110 
Baltimore Oriole 576 
Pine Grosbeak 12 
Purple Finch 816 
House Finch 898 
Red Crossbill 18 
White-winged Crossbill 55 
Common Redpoll 130 
Hoary Redpoll
Pine Siskin 110 
American Goldfinch 1460 
Evening Grosbeak
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
House Sparrow 1026 

March 9, 2010, Tom Wetmore