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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 August 21, 2025

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Snow Goose 551 
Ross's Goose 14 
Greater White-fronted Goose 26 
Brant 1262 
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose 7168 
Mute Swan 4470 
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck 467 
Blue-winged Teal 1336 
Northern Shoveler 1465 
Gadwall 5772 
Eurasian Wigeon 296 
American Wigeon 2028 
Mallard 6957 
American Black Duck 6933 
Northern Pintail 3429 
Green-winged Teal 5132 
Canvasback 21 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Redhead 153 
Ring-necked Duck 385 
Greater Scaup 1218 
Lesser Scaup 776 
King Eider 122 
Common Eider 4482 
Harlequin Duck 59 
Surf Scoter 2084 
White-winged Scoter 4292 
Black Scoter 3314 
Long-tailed Duck 3401 
Bufflehead 3171 
Common Goldeneye 2448 
Barrow's Goldeneye 35 
Hooded Merganser 2313 
Common Merganser 484 
Red-breasted Merganser 3779 
Ruddy Duck 645 
Wild Turkey 2554 
Ring-necked Pheasant 85 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pied-billed Grebe 935 
Horned Grebe 2654 
Red-necked Grebe 1615 
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe 71 
Rock Pigeon 4644 
Ringed Turtle-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove 5963 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 302 
Black-billed Cuckoo 389 
Common Nighthawk 95 
Chuck-will's-widow
Eastern Whip-poor-will 379 
Chimney Swift 706 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 789 
King Rail 188 
Clapper Rail 148 
Virginia Rail 814 
Sora 526 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Gallinule 181 
American Coot 599 
Purple Gallinule
Black Rail 18 
Sandhill Crane
Black-necked Stilt 21 
American Avocet 234 
American Oystercatcher 89 
Northern Lapwing
Black-bellied Plover 3647 
American Golden-Plover 692 
Pacific Golden-Plover
Killdeer 3876 
Common Ringed Plover
Semipalmated Plover 3159 
Piping Plover 2375 
Wilson's Plover
Upland Sandpiper 21 
Whimbrel 766 
Black-tailed Godwit 11 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hudsonian Godwit 397 
Marbled Godwit 100 
Ruddy Turnstone 995 
Red Knot 826 
Ruff 26 
Stilt Sandpiper 1091 
Curlew Sandpiper 26 
Red-necked Stint
Sanderling 3317 
Dunlin 3187 
Purple Sandpiper 491 
Baird's Sandpiper 385 
Least Sandpiper 2529 
White-rumped Sandpiper 2197 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 215 
Pectoral Sandpiper 1032 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3155 
Western Sandpiper 364 
Short-billed Dowitcher 2372 
Long-billed Dowitcher 995 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Woodcock 874 
Wilson's Snipe 451 
Spotted Sandpiper 1711 
Solitary Sandpiper 273 
Lesser Yellowlegs 2906 
Willet 2498 
Greater Yellowlegs 4741 
Wilson's Phalarope 254 
Red-necked Phalarope 42 
Red Phalarope 30 
Pomarine Jaeger 12 
Parasitic Jaeger 62 
Long-tailed Jaeger
Dovekie 54 
Common Murre 19 
Thick-billed Murre 45 
Razorbill 1114 
Black Guillemot 244 
Atlantic Puffin
Black-legged Kittiwake 405 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Sabine's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull 1720 
Black-headed Gull 40 
Little Gull 125 
Laughing Gull 964 
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull 5412 
Herring Gull 7222 
Iceland Gull 158 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 269 
Glaucous Gull 52 
Great Black-backed Gull 6733 
Least Tern 2343 
Gull-billed Tern 44 
Caspian Tern 187 
Black Tern 155 
Roseate Tern 625 
Common Tern 2629 
Arctic Tern 40 
Forster's Tern 316 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Royal Tern 40 
Sandwich Tern
Elegant Tern
Black Skimmer 85 
Red-throated Loon 2768 
Pacific Loon 17 
Common Loon 4987 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 172 
Leach's Storm-Petrel 11 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater 86 
Sooty Shearwater 25 
Great Shearwater 58 
Manx Shearwater 75 
Northern Gannet 2601 
Great Cormorant 850 
Double-crested Cormorant 5108 
Neotropic Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Bittern 787 
Least Bittern 1038 
Great Blue Heron 4497 
Great Egret 4766 
Little Egret
Snowy Egret 3872 
Little Blue Heron 223 
Tricolored Heron 279 
Cattle Egret 27 
Green Heron 418 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1895 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 413 
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis 1135 
White-faced Ibis 23 
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture 2527 
Osprey 3742 
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier 5725 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1143 
Cooper's Hawk 2034 
Northern Goshawk 44 
Bald Eagle 2231 
Mississippi Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk 79 
Broad-winged Hawk 78 
Swainson's Hawk 11 
Red-tailed Hawk 2917 
Rough-legged Hawk 1511 
Eastern Screech-Owl 12 
Great Horned Owl 386 
Snowy Owl 1524 
Barred Owl 286 
Long-eared Owl 33 
Short-eared Owl 702 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 43 
Belted Kingfisher 1060 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 513 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 620 
Downy Woodpecker 4464 
Hairy Woodpecker 682 
Northern Flicker 2792 
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel 1097 
Merlin 2350 
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon 2906 
Prairie Falcon
Monk Parakeet
Ash-throated Flycatcher 13 
Great Crested Flycatcher 1338 
Western Kingbird 40 
Eastern Kingbird 2777 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 26 
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher 96 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 626 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 209 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Acadian Flycatcher 16 
Alder Flycatcher 446 
Willow Flycatcher 1737 
Least Flycatcher 425 
Eastern Phoebe 2187 
Say's Phoebe
White-eyed Vireo 126 
Yellow-throated Vireo 110 
Blue-headed Vireo 850 
Philadelphia Vireo 269 
Warbling Vireo 377 
Red-eyed Vireo 1888 
Yellow-green Vireo
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike 778 
Blue Jay 6041 
American Crow 6704 
Fish Crow 303 
Common Raven 1164 
Black-capped Chickadee 6803 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Tufted Titmouse 689 
Horned Lark 1728 
Bank Swallow 1428 
Tree Swallow 3891 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 258 
Purple Martin 2437 
Barn Swallow 2894 
Cliff Swallow 166 
Cave Swallow 11 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1447 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1639 
Bohemian Waxwing 18 
Cedar Waxwing 3639 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2421 
White-breasted Nuthatch 946 
Brown Creeper 741 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 422 
House Wren 824 
Winter Wren 245 
Sedge Wren
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Marsh Wren 3151 
Carolina Wren 1571 
Gray Catbird 4557 
Brown Thrasher 3325 
Sage Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird 6523 
European Starling 6068 
Eastern Bluebird 67 
Townsend's Solitaire
Veery 413 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 52 
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 471 
Hermit Thrush 1858 
Wood Thrush 207 
American Robin 7093 
Northern Wheatear
House Sparrow 5055 
American Pipit 724 
Evening Grosbeak 16 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pine Grosbeak 17 
House Finch 4243 
Purple Finch 3115 
Common Redpoll 353 
Hoary Redpoll 16 
Red Crossbill 218 
White-winged Crossbill 148 
Pine Siskin 386 
American Goldfinch 5511 
Lapland Longspur 380 
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Snow Bunting 1313 
Grasshopper Sparrow 25 
Lark Sparrow 76 
Lark Bunting
Chipping Sparrow 1355 
Clay-colored Sparrow 239 
Field Sparrow 2360 
Fox Sparrow 312 
American Tree Sparrow 2820 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Dark-eyed Junco 2307 
White-crowned Sparrow 676 
White-throated Sparrow 3447 
Vesper Sparrow 57 
Seaside Sparrow 1039 
Nelson's Sparrow 161 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 2245 
Savannah Sparrow 3237 
Song Sparrow 6705 
Lincoln's Sparrow 278 
Swamp Sparrow 2485 
Green-tailed Towhee 12 
Eastern Towhee 4144 
Yellow-breasted Chat 108 
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bobolink 2481 
Eastern Meadowlark 634 
Western Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole 1049 
Baltimore Oriole 2284 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Red-winged Blackbird 4365 
Brown-headed Cowbird 2421 
Rusty Blackbird 115 
Common Grackle 3825 
Ovenbird 626 
Worm-eating Warbler 32 
Louisiana Waterthrush 10 
Northern Waterthrush 705 
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler 120 
Black-and-white Warbler 1150 
Prothonotary Warbler 17 
Swainson's Warbler
Tennessee Warbler 196 
Orange-crowned Warbler 131 
Nashville Warbler 591 
Connecticut Warbler 67 
Mourning Warbler 180 
Kentucky Warbler 21 
Common Yellowthroat 3047 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hooded Warbler 61 
American Redstart 2176 
Cape May Warbler 292 
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula 970 
Magnolia Warbler 869 
Bay-breasted Warbler 365 
Blackburnian Warbler 469 
Yellow Warbler 2705 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 530 
Blackpoll Warbler 1006 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 788 
Palm Warbler 947 
Pine Warbler 772 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2907 
Yellow-throated Warbler 11 
Prairie Warbler 363 
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler 946 
Canada Warbler 431 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Wilson's Warbler 604 
Summer Tanager 46 
Scarlet Tanager 410 
Western Tanager
Northern Cardinal 6206 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 694 
Blue Grosbeak 16 
Indigo Bunting 170 
Dickcissel 154 

August 21, 2025, Tom Wetmore