Tom’s Birding Page

2006 Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore

This table shows the 2006 quarter-month status of the birds of Plum Island. It is based on data collected for inclusion on the Plum Island sigthings web site. The column labeled N shows the number days the species was reported in 2006.

Status of the Birds of Plum Island — 2006

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 53 
Brant 83 
Cackling Goose 1 
Canada Goose 354 
Mute Swan 215 
Wood Duck 35 
Gadwall 309 
Eurasian Wigeon 19 
American Wigeon 118 
American Black Duck 326 
Mallard 345 
Blue-winged Teal 88 
Northern Shoveler 29 
Northern Pintail 211 
Green-winged Teal 254 
Canvasback 1 
Redhead 1 
Ring-necked Duck 21 
Greater Scaup 35 
Lesser Scaup 48 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
King Eider 4 
Common Eider 175 
Harlequin Duck 2 
Surf Scoter 80 
White-winged Scoter 175 
Black Scoter 129 
Long-tailed Duck 131 
Bufflehead 141 
Common Goldeneye 120 
Hooded Merganser 90 
Common Merganser 18 
Red-breasted Merganser 167 
Ruddy Duck 31 
Ring-necked Pheasant 1 
Wild Turkey 1 
Red-throated Loon 112 
Common Loon 196 
Pied-billed Grebe 58 
Horned Grebe 104 
Red-necked Grebe 85 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Greater Shearwater 1 
Sooty Shearwater 1 
Manx Shearwater 9 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 3 
Northern Gannet 108 
American White Pelican 1 
Double-crested Cormorant 237 
Great Cormorant 37 
American Bittern 74 
Least Bittern 42 
Great Blue Heron 206 
Great Egret 203 
Snowy Egret 190 
Little Blue Heron 9 
Tricolored Heron 15 
Green Heron 33 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 82 
Glossy Ibis 55 
Black Vulture 2 
Turkey Vulture 106 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Osprey 151 
Bald Eagle 27 
Northern Harrier 281 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 54 
Cooper's Hawk 48 
Northern Goshawk 1 
Red-shouldered Hawk 3 
Red-tailed Hawk 68 
Rough-legged Hawk 13 
American Kestrel 62 
Merlin 96 
Gyrfalcon 1 
Peregrine Falcon 135 
Clapper Rail 24 
King Rail 19 
Virginia Rail 47 
Sora 46 
Common Moorhen 24 
American Coot 56 
Black-bellied Plover 151 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Golden-Plover 18 
Semipalmated Plover 120 
Piping Plover 94 
Killdeer 154 
American Oystercatcher 4 
American Avocet 4 
Spotted Sandpiper 67 
Solitary Sandpiper 11 
Greater Yellowlegs 217 
Willet 104 
Lesser Yellowlegs 150 
Whimbrel 48 
Black-tailed Godwit 11 
Hudsonian Godwit 13 
Marbled Godwit 1 
Ruddy Turnstone 42 
Red Knot 26 
Sanderling 119 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 124 
Western Sandpiper 15 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Least Sandpiper 111 
White-rumped Sandpiper 71 
Baird's Sandpiper 21 
Pectoral Sandpiper 43 
Purple Sandpiper 51 
Dunlin 85 
Stilt Sandpiper 32 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 16 
Ruff 1 
Short-billed Dowitcher 93 
Long-billed Dowitcher 47 
Wilson's Snipe 32 
American Woodcock 37 
Wilson's Phalarope 30 
Red-necked Phalarope 4 
Red Phalarope 3 
Laughing Gull 44 
Little Gull 19 
Black-headed Gull 3 
Bonaparte's Gull 92 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ring-billed Gull 254 
Herring Gull 358 
Iceland Gull 6 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 4 
Great Black-backed Gull 340 
Black-legged Kittiwake 27 
Least Tern 97 
Gull-billed Tern 1 
Caspian Tern 9 
Black Tern 12 
Roseate Tern 25 
Common Tern 125 
Arctic Tern 5 
Forster's Tern 14 
Pomarine Jaeger 1 
Parasitic Jaeger 3 
Dovekie 11 
Common Murre 1 
Thick-billed Murre 1 
Razorbill 33 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black Guillemot 5 
Atlantic Puffin 3 
Rock Pigeon 130 
Mourning Dove 282 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 9 
Black-billed Cuckoo 15 
Great Horned Owl 9 
Snowy Owl 122 
Short-eared Owl 38 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 1 
Common Nighthawk 5 
Whip-poor-will 12 
Chimney Swift 16 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 30 
Belted Kingfisher 28 
Red-headed Woodpecker 2 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 13 
Downy Woodpecker 192 
Hairy Woodpecker 1 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Flicker 91 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 6 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 17 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 8 
Alder Flycatcher 16 
Willow Flycatcher 82 
Least Flycatcher 19 
Eastern Phoebe 91 
Great Crested Flycatcher 14 
Eastern Kingbird 126 
Northern Shrike 76 
White-eyed Vireo 2 
Yellow-throated Vireo 3 
Blue-headed Vireo 32 
Warbling Vireo 12 
Philadelphia Vireo 8 
Red-eyed Vireo 52 
Blue Jay 268 
American Crow 348 
Fish Crow 3 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Raven 5 
Horned Lark 103 
Purple Martin 116 
Tree Swallow 180 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 11 
Bank Swallow 59 
Cliff Swallow 10 
Cave Swallow 1 
Barn Swallow 108 
Black-capped Chickadee 310 
Tufted Titmouse 5 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 39 
White-breasted Nuthatch 14 
Brown Creeper 27 
Carolina Wren 128 
House Wren 40 
Winter Wren 9 
Marsh Wren 175 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 98 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 82 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 26 
Eastern Bluebird 1 
Veery 9 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 2 
Swainson's Thrush 9 
Hermit Thrush 65 
Wood Thrush 5 
American Robin 343 
Gray Catbird 245 
Northern Mockingbird 311 
Brown Thrasher 161 
European Starling 290 
American Pipit 42 
Cedar Waxwing 163 
Blue-winged Warbler 5 
Tennessee Warbler 6 
Orange-crowned Warbler 7 
Nashville Warbler 26 
Northern Parula 35 
Yellow Warbler 128 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Chestnut-sided Warbler 20 
Magnolia Warbler 36 
Cape May Warbler 13 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 38 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 150 
Black-throated Green Warbler 41 
Blackburnian Warbler 18 
Yellow-throated Warbler 1 
Pine Warbler 16 
Prairie Warbler 11 
Palm Warbler 49 
Bay-breasted Warbler 11 
Blackpoll Warbler 46 
Black-and-white Warbler 70 
American Redstart 89 
Prothonotary Warbler 1 
Ovenbird 25 
Northern Waterthrush 26 
Kentucky Warbler 1 
Connecticut Warbler 5 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Mourning Warbler 6 
Common Yellowthroat 141 
Hooded Warbler 1 
Wilson's Warbler 30 
Canada Warbler 17 
Yellow-breasted Chat 2 
Summer Tanager 2 
Scarlet Tanager 10 
Green-tailed Towhee 12 
Eastern Towhee 196 
American Tree Sparrow 155 
Chipping Sparrow 53 
Clay-colored Sparrow 10 
Field Sparrow 109 
Vesper Sparrow 1 
Lark Sparrow 2 
Savannah Sparrow 205 
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 2 
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow 108 
Seaside Sparrow 41 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Fox Sparrow 13 
Song Sparrow 305 
Lincoln's Sparrow 6 
Swamp Sparrow 81 
White-throated Sparrow 178 
White-crowned Sparrow 28 
Dark-eyed Junco 99 
Lapland Longspur 31 
Snow Bunting 57 
Northern Cardinal 288 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 19 
Indigo Bunting 7 
Dickcissel 7 
Bobolink 121 
Red-winged Blackbird 185 
Eastern Meadowlark 17 
Rusty Blackbird 7 
Common Grackle 172 
Brown-headed Cowbird 128 
Orchard Oriole 11 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Baltimore Oriole 97 
Purple Finch 131 
House Finch 193 
Common Redpoll 7 
Pine Siskin 3 
American Goldfinch 246 
House Sparrow 227 

Total reports are 34,228. Total sightings are 20,616.

January 1, 2007, Tom Wetmore