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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 June 13, 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 7100 
Mute Swan 4409 
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck 464 
Blue-winged Teal 1318 
Northern Shoveler 1465 
Gadwall 5703 
Eurasian Wigeon 286 
American Wigeon 2027 
Mallard 6888 
American Black Duck 6870 
Northern Pintail 3428 
Green-winged Teal 5078 
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 121 
Common Eider 4418 
Harlequin Duck 59 
Surf Scoter 2082 
White-winged Scoter 4291 
Black Scoter 3279 
Long-tailed Duck 3397 
Bufflehead 3171 
Common Goldeneye 2448 
Barrow's Goldeneye 35 
Hooded Merganser 2313 
Common Merganser 484 
Red-breasted Merganser 3772 
Ruddy Duck 637 
Wild Turkey 2496 
Ring-necked Pheasant 85 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pied-billed Grebe 934 
Horned Grebe 2654 
Red-necked Grebe 1615 
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe 71 
Rock Pigeon 4603 
Ringed Turtle-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove 5894 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 300 
Black-billed Cuckoo 385 
Common Nighthawk 95 
Chuck-will's-widow
Eastern Whip-poor-will 368 
Chimney Swift 687 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 781 
King Rail 182 
Clapper Rail 144 
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 20 
American Avocet 234 
American Oystercatcher 77 
Northern Lapwing
Black-bellied Plover 3615 
American Golden-Plover 690 
Pacific Golden-Plover
Killdeer 3808 
Common Ringed Plover
Semipalmated Plover 3102 
Piping Plover 2317 
Wilson's Plover
Upland Sandpiper 20 
Whimbrel 756 
Black-tailed Godwit 11 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hudsonian Godwit 396 
Marbled Godwit 100 
Ruddy Turnstone 975 
Red Knot 819 
Ruff 18 
Stilt Sandpiper 1050 
Curlew Sandpiper 26 
Red-necked Stint
Sanderling 3279 
Dunlin 3178 
Purple Sandpiper 491 
Baird's Sandpiper 384 
Least Sandpiper 2474 
White-rumped Sandpiper 2161 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 215 
Pectoral Sandpiper 1019 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3092 
Western Sandpiper 363 
Short-billed Dowitcher 2316 
Long-billed Dowitcher 975 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Woodcock 869 
Wilson's Snipe 451 
Spotted Sandpiper 1666 
Solitary Sandpiper 270 
Lesser Yellowlegs 2849 
Willet 2432 
Greater Yellowlegs 4677 
Wilson's Phalarope 252 
Red-necked Phalarope 41 
Red Phalarope 30 
Pomarine Jaeger 12 
Parasitic Jaeger 61 
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 1690 
Black-headed Gull 40 
Little Gull 125 
Laughing Gull 917 
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull 5347 
Herring Gull 7153 
Iceland Gull 158 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 258 
Glaucous Gull 52 
Great Black-backed Gull 6666 
Least Tern 2274 
Gull-billed Tern 44 
Caspian Tern 187 
Black Tern 154 
Roseate Tern 587 
Common Tern 2560 
Arctic Tern 35 
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 83 
Red-throated Loon 2766 
Pacific Loon 17 
Common Loon 4940 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 162 
Leach's Storm-Petrel 11 
Northern Fulmar
Cory's Shearwater 86 
Sooty Shearwater 25 
Great Shearwater 58 
Manx Shearwater 72 
Northern Gannet 2592 
Great Cormorant 850 
Double-crested Cormorant 5039 
Neotropic Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Bittern 786 
Least Bittern 989 
Great Blue Heron 4432 
Great Egret 4697 
Little Egret
Snowy Egret 3803 
Little Blue Heron 222 
Tricolored Heron 270 
Cattle Egret 27 
Green Heron 416 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1831 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 409 
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis 1094 
White-faced Ibis 22 
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture 2500 
Osprey 3673 
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier 5699 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1143 
Cooper's Hawk 2025 
Northern Goshawk 44 
Bald Eagle 2225 
Mississippi Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk 78 
Broad-winged Hawk 79 
Swainson's Hawk 11 
Red-tailed Hawk 2907 
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 1055 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker 512 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 620 
Downy Woodpecker 4422 
Hairy Woodpecker 682 
Northern Flicker 2742 
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel 1096 
Merlin 2337 
Gyrfalcon
Peregrine Falcon 2877 
Prairie Falcon
Monk Parakeet
Ash-throated Flycatcher 13 
Great Crested Flycatcher 1283 
Western Kingbird 40 
Eastern Kingbird 2708 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 26 
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher 95 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 591 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 208 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Acadian Flycatcher 16 
Alder Flycatcher 429 
Willow Flycatcher 1677 
Least Flycatcher 424 
Eastern Phoebe 2174 
Say's Phoebe
White-eyed Vireo 126 
Yellow-throated Vireo 110 
Blue-headed Vireo 850 
Philadelphia Vireo 269 
Warbling Vireo 375 
Red-eyed Vireo 1844 
Yellow-green Vireo
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike 778 
Blue Jay 5982 
American Crow 6662 
Fish Crow 294 
Common Raven 1156 
Black-capped Chickadee 6737 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Tufted Titmouse 682 
Horned Lark 1728 
Bank Swallow 1397 
Tree Swallow 3822 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 256 
Purple Martin 2368 
Barn Swallow 2826 
Cliff Swallow 165 
Cave Swallow 11 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1447 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1639 
Bohemian Waxwing 18 
Cedar Waxwing 3570 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2409 
White-breasted Nuthatch 933 
Brown Creeper 741 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 417 
House Wren 806 
Winter Wren 245 
Sedge Wren
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Marsh Wren 3082 
Carolina Wren 1543 
Gray Catbird 4488 
Brown Thrasher 3262 
Sage Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird 6454 
European Starling 5999 
Eastern Bluebird 67 
Townsend's Solitaire
Veery 413 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 52 
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 471 
Hermit Thrush 1858 
Wood Thrush 205 
American Robin 7024 
Northern Wheatear
House Sparrow 4987 
American Pipit 724 
Evening Grosbeak 16 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Pine Grosbeak 17 
House Finch 4175 
Purple Finch 3068 
Common Redpoll 353 
Hoary Redpoll 16 
Red Crossbill 218 
White-winged Crossbill 148 
Pine Siskin 386 
American Goldfinch 5442 
Lapland Longspur 380 
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Snow Bunting 1313 
Grasshopper Sparrow 25 
Lark Sparrow 76 
Lark Bunting
Chipping Sparrow 1336 
Clay-colored Sparrow 239 
Field Sparrow 2331 
Fox Sparrow 312 
American Tree Sparrow 2820 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Dark-eyed Junco 2306 
White-crowned Sparrow 676 
White-throated Sparrow 3447 
Vesper Sparrow 57 
Seaside Sparrow 1000 
Nelson's Sparrow 157 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 2180 
Savannah Sparrow 3230 
Song Sparrow 6636 
Lincoln's Sparrow 278 
Swamp Sparrow 2435 
Green-tailed Towhee 12 
Eastern Towhee 4075 
Yellow-breasted Chat 98 
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bobolink 2424 
Eastern Meadowlark 632 
Western Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole 1011 
Baltimore Oriole 2223 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Red-winged Blackbird 4296 
Brown-headed Cowbird 2385 
Rusty Blackbird 115 
Common Grackle 3756 
Ovenbird 603 
Worm-eating Warbler 32 
Louisiana Waterthrush 10 
Northern Waterthrush 703 
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler 120 
Black-and-white Warbler 1146 
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 2979 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Hooded Warbler 61 
American Redstart 2111 
Cape May Warbler 292 
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula 969 
Magnolia Warbler 868 
Bay-breasted Warbler 364 
Blackburnian Warbler 469 
Yellow Warbler 2636 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 526 
Blackpoll Warbler 1004 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 788 
Palm Warbler 947 
Pine Warbler 770 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2904 
Yellow-throated Warbler 11 
Prairie Warbler 362 
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 409 
Western Tanager
Northern Cardinal 6137 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 679 
Blue Grosbeak 16 
Indigo Bunting 170 
Dickcissel 153 

June 13, 2025, Tom Wetmore