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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
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
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck 21 
Greater Scaup 35 
Lesser Scaup 48 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
King Eider
Common Eider 175 
Harlequin Duck
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
Wild Turkey
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
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Northern Gannet 108 
American White Pelican
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
Tricolored Heron 15 
Green Heron 33 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 82 
Glossy Ibis 55 
Black Vulture
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
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk 68 
Rough-legged Hawk 13 
American Kestrel 62 
Merlin 96 
Gyrfalcon
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
American Avocet
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
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
Short-billed Dowitcher 93 
Long-billed Dowitcher 47 
Wilson's Snipe 32 
American Woodcock 37 
Wilson's Phalarope 30 
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Laughing Gull 44 
Little Gull 19 
Black-headed Gull
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
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull 340 
Black-legged Kittiwake 27 
Least Tern 97 
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern 12 
Roseate Tern 25 
Common Tern 125 
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern 14 
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Dovekie 11 
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre
Razorbill 33 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black Guillemot
Atlantic Puffin
Rock Pigeon 130 
Mourning Dove 282 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo 15 
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl 122 
Short-eared Owl 38 
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Common Nighthawk
Whip-poor-will 12 
Chimney Swift 16 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 30 
Belted Kingfisher 28 
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 13 
Downy Woodpecker 192 
Hairy Woodpecker
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Flicker 91 
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee 17 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
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
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo 32 
Warbling Vireo 12 
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo 52 
Blue Jay 268 
American Crow 348 
Fish Crow
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Raven
Horned Lark 103 
Purple Martin 116 
Tree Swallow 180 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 11 
Bank Swallow 59 
Cliff Swallow 10 
Cave Swallow
Barn Swallow 108 
Black-capped Chickadee 310 
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch 39 
White-breasted Nuthatch 14 
Brown Creeper 27 
Carolina Wren 128 
House Wren 40 
Winter Wren
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
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush 65 
Wood Thrush
American Robin 343 
Gray Catbird 245 
Northern Mockingbird 311 
Brown Thrasher 161 
European Starling 290 
American Pipit 42 
Cedar Waxwing 163 
Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
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
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
Ovenbird 25 
Northern Waterthrush 26 
Kentucky Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat 141 
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler 30 
Canada Warbler 17 
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
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
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow 205 
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
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
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
Dickcissel
Bobolink 121 
Red-winged Blackbird 185 
Eastern Meadowlark 17 
Rusty Blackbird
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
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch 246 
House Sparrow 227 

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

January 1, 2007, Tom Wetmore