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 July 1, 2009

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 365 
Ross's Goose
Brant 368 
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose 1872 
Mute Swan 1122 
Wood Duck 151 
Gadwall 1572 
Eurasian Wigeon 76 
American Wigeon 503 
American Black Duck 1783 
Mallard 1757 
Blue-winged Teal 591 
Northern Shoveler 303 
Northern Pintail 952 
Green-winged Teal 1278 
Canvasback
Redhead 17 
Ring-necked Duck 102 
Greater Scaup 236 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Lesser Scaup 121 
King Eider 15 
Common Eider 916 
Harlequin Duck 16 
Surf Scoter 387 
White-winged Scoter 1036 
Black Scoter 672 
Long-tailed Duck 750 
Bufflehead 724 
Common Goldeneye 598 
Barrow's Goldeneye 32 
Hooded Merganser 595 
Common Merganser 152 
Red-breasted Merganser 963 
Ruddy Duck 128 
Ring-necked Pheasant 56 
Wild Turkey 55 
Red-throated Loon 685 
Pacific Loon
Common Loon 1214 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pied-billed Grebe 257 
Horned Grebe 624 
Red-necked Grebe 434 
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe 15 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater
Greater Shearwater 17 
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater 34 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 55 
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Northern Gannet 646 
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant 1333 
Great Cormorant 240 
American Bittern 365 
Least Bittern 264 
Great Blue Heron 1133 
Great Egret 1231 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snowy Egret 1090 
Little Blue Heron 89 
Tricolored Heron 118 
Cattle Egret
Green Heron 167 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 450 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 10 
Glossy Ibis 371 
White-faced Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture 531 
Osprey 923 
Bald Eagle 205 
Northern Harrier 1665 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 378 
Cooper's Hawk 348 
Northern Goshawk 26 
Red-shouldered Hawk 10 
Broad-winged Hawk 13 
Red-tailed Hawk 474 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Rough-legged Hawk 407 
Golden Eagle
Eurasian Kestrel
American Kestrel 404 
Merlin 654 
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon 654 
Clapper Rail 82 
King Rail 114 
Virginia Rail 290 
Sora 289 
Common Moorhen 91 
American Coot 142 
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover 884 
American Golden-Plover 189 
Pacific Golden-Plover
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover 741 
Piping Plover 466 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Killdeer 972 
American Oystercatcher 12 
American Avocet 15 
Spotted Sandpiper 392 
Solitary Sandpiper 67 
Greater Yellowlegs 1287 
Willet 665 
Lesser Yellowlegs 764 
Upland Sandpiper 12 
Whimbrel 282 
Black-tailed Godwit 11 
Hudsonian Godwit 73 
Marbled Godwit 34 
Ruddy Turnstone 266 
Red Knot 199 
Sanderling 673 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 768 
Western Sandpiper 109 
Least Sandpiper 660 
White-rumped Sandpiper 529 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Baird's Sandpiper 122 
Pectoral Sandpiper 266 
Purple Sandpiper 165 
Dunlin 602 
Curlew Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper 222 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 93 
Ruff 10 
Short-billed Dowitcher 585 
Long-billed Dowitcher 255 
Wilson's Snipe 184 
American Woodcock 281 
Wilson's Phalarope 118 
Red-necked Phalarope 13 
Red Phalarope 12 
Black-legged Kittiwake 163 
Sabine's Gull
Bonaparte's Gull 548 
Black-headed Gull 12 
Little Gull 96 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Laughing Gull 226 
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull 1307 
Herring Gull 1855 
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull 69 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 40 
Glaucous Gull 15 
Great Black-backed Gull 1661 
Least Tern 555 
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern 43 
Black Tern 41 
Roseate Tern 114 
Common Tern 714 
Arctic Tern 14 
Forster's Tern 71 
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Pomarine Jaeger
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Parasitic Jaeger 14 
Long-tailed Jaeger
Dovekie 17 
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre 12 
Razorbill 176 
Black Guillemot 15 
Atlantic Puffin
Rock Pigeon 801 
Mourning Dove 1456 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 90 
Black-billed Cuckoo 112 
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl 171 
Snowy Owl 503 
Barred Owl
Long-eared Owl 18 
Short-eared Owl 268 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 12 
Common Nighthawk 43 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Chuck-will's-widow
Whip-poor-will 87 
Chimney Swift 182 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 192 
Belted Kingfisher 259 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 99 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 95 
Downy Woodpecker 894 
Hairy Woodpecker 111 
Northern Flicker 541 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 25 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 128 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 58 
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher 99 
Willow Flycatcher 441 
Least Flycatcher 119 
Eastern Phoebe 485 
Say's Phoebe
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher 176 
Western Kingbird 10 
Eastern Kingbird 755 
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike 383 
White-eyed Vireo 14 
Yellow-throated Vireo 16 
Blue-headed Vireo 224 
Warbling Vireo 91 
Philadelphia Vireo 79 
Red-eyed Vireo 314 
Blue Jay 1338 
American Crow 1788 
Fish Crow 24 
Common Raven
Horned Lark 587 
Purple Martin 677 
Tree Swallow 1072 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 82 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bank Swallow 403 
Cliff Swallow 68 
Cave Swallow
Barn Swallow 680 
Black-capped Chickadee 1670 
Tufted Titmouse 67 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 517 
White-breasted Nuthatch 71 
Brown Creeper 174 
Carolina Wren 338 
House Wren 159 
Winter Wren 81 
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren 857 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 410 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 400 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 98 
Northern Wheatear
Eastern Bluebird 18 
Veery 104 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Gray-cheeked Thrush 11 
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 102 
Hermit Thrush 349 
Wood Thrush 77 
American Robin 1839 
Gray Catbird 1181 
Northern Mockingbird 1607 
Sage Thrasher
Brown Thrasher 920 
European Starling 1498 
American Pipit 252 
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing 920 
Blue-winged Warbler 33 
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler 35 
Orange-crowned Warbler 32 
Nashville Warbler 167 
Northern Parula 261 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Yellow Warbler 743 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 149 
Magnolia Warbler 265 
Cape May Warbler 46 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 257 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 794 
Black-throated Green Warbler 285 
Blackburnian Warbler 135 
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler 108 
Prairie Warbler 97 
Palm Warbler 254 
Bay-breasted Warbler 79 
Blackpoll Warbler 273 
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler 340 
American Redstart 512 
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler 14 
Swainson's Warbler
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ovenbird 153 
Northern Waterthrush 198 
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Connecticut Warbler 32 
Mourning Warbler 49 
Common Yellowthroat 772 
Hooded Warbler 22 
Wilson's Warbler 197 
Canada Warbler 134 
Yellow-breasted Chat 35 
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager 113 
Green-tailed Towhee 12 
Eastern Towhee 1044 
American Tree Sparrow 834 
Chipping Sparrow 270 
Clay-colored Sparrow 61 
Field Sparrow 609 
Vesper Sparrow 26 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Lark Sparrow 11 
Savannah Sparrow 975 
Grasshopper Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 30 
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow 594 
Seaside Sparrow 244 
Fox Sparrow 64 
Song Sparrow 1701 
Lincoln's Sparrow 67 
Swamp Sparrow 419 
White-throated Sparrow 938 
White-crowned Sparrow 200 
Dark-eyed Junco 563 
Lapland Longspur 175 
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Snow Bunting 391 
Northern Cardinal 1394 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 151 
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting 44 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Dickcissel 25 
Bobolink 694 
Red-winged Blackbird 1096 
Eastern Meadowlark 405 
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird 36 
Common Grackle 979 
Brown-headed Cowbird 708 
Orchard Oriole 110 
Baltimore Oriole 527 
Pine Grosbeak 12 
Purple Finch 781 
House Finch 831 
Red Crossbill 18 
White-winged Crossbill 55 
Common Redpoll 130 
Hoary Redpoll
Pine Siskin 108 
American Goldfinch 1320 
Evening Grosbeak
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
House Sparrow 931 

July 1, 2009, Tom Wetmore