Tom’s Birding Page

2007 Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore

This table shows the 2007 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 has been reported in 2007.

Status of the Birds of Plum Island &mdash 2007

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 63 
Brant 71 
Canada Goose 299 
Mute Swan 146 
Wood Duck 26 
Gadwall 254 
Eurasian Wigeon 19 
American Wigeon 87 
American Black Duck 285 
Mallard 282 
Blue-winged Teal 94 
Northern Shoveler 36 
Northern Pintail 148 
Green-winged Teal 212 
Redhead 13 
Ring-necked Duck 10 
Greater Scaup 50 
Lesser Scaup 18 
Common Eider 200 
Harlequin Duck 9 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Surf Scoter 86 
White-winged Scoter 191 
Black Scoter 141 
Long-tailed Duck 126 
Bufflehead 122 
Common Goldeneye 85 
Barrow's Goldeneye 4 
Hooded Merganser 93 
Common Merganser 26 
Red-breasted Merganser 153 
Ruddy Duck 4 
Ring-necked Pheasant 9 
Wild Turkey 2 
Red-throated Loon 119 
Common Loon 209 
Pied-billed Grebe 70 
Horned Grebe 114 
Red-necked Grebe 79 
Western Grebe 4 
Greater Shearwater 4 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Manx Shearwater 3 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 3 
Leach's Storm-Petrel 2 
Northern Gannet 113 
Double-crested Cormorant 208 
Great Cormorant 31 
American Bittern 80 
Least Bittern 58 
Great Blue Heron 200 
Great Egret 205 
Snowy Egret 174 
Little Blue Heron 12 
Tricolored Heron 3 
Cattle Egret 6 
Green Heron 26 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 71 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2 
Glossy Ibis 66 
Turkey Vulture 99 
Osprey 146 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bald Eagle 38 
Northern Harrier 259 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 67 
Cooper's Hawk 59 
Northern Goshawk 1 
Broad-winged Hawk 2 
Red-tailed Hawk 74 
Rough-legged Hawk 80 
American Kestrel 58 
Merlin 106 
Peregrine Falcon 108 
Clapper Rail 3 
King Rail 20 
Virginia Rail 45 
Sora 53 
Common Moorhen 24 
American Coot 41 
Black-bellied Plover 158 
American Golden-Plover 47 
Wilson's Plover 1 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Semipalmated Plover 122 
Piping Plover 85 
Killdeer 147 
American Oystercatcher 3 
American Avocet 7 
Spotted Sandpiper 56 
Solitary Sandpiper 15 
Greater Yellowlegs 212 
Willet 98 
Lesser Yellowlegs 117 
Upland Sandpiper 2 
Whimbrel 71 
Hudsonian Godwit 3 
Marbled Godwit 7 
Ruddy Turnstone 43 
Red Knot 41 
Sanderling 122 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 116 
Western Sandpiper 27 
Least Sandpiper 105 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
White-rumped Sandpiper 81 
Baird's Sandpiper 25 
Pectoral Sandpiper 43 
Purple Sandpiper 38 
Dunlin 108 
Stilt Sandpiper 35 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 21 
Ruff 1 
Short-billed Dowitcher 93 
Long-billed Dowitcher 41 
Wilson's Snipe 38 
American Woodcock 52 
Wilson's Phalarope 7 
Red-necked Phalarope 1 
Red Phalarope 3 
Laughing Gull 47 
Franklin's Gull 1 
Little Gull 16 
Bonaparte's Gull 104 
Ring-billed Gull 228 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Herring Gull 295 
Iceland Gull 7 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 6 
Great Black-backed Gull 263 
Black-legged Kittiwake 30 
Least Tern 89 
Caspian Tern 10 
Black Tern 5 
Roseate Tern 19 
Common Tern 94 
Arctic Tern 3 
Forster's Tern 11 
Parasitic Jaeger 2 
Long-tailed Jaeger 1 
Dovekie 2 
Common Murre 4 
Thick-billed Murre 4 
Razorbill 24 
Black Guillemot 3 
Atlantic Puffin 1 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Rock Pigeon 164 
Mourning Dove 266 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 24 
Black-billed Cuckoo 11 
Eastern Screech-Owl 1 
Great Horned Owl 2 
Snowy Owl 55 
Barred Owl 2 
Long-eared Owl 1 
Short-eared Owl 63 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 1 
Common Nighthawk 8 
Whip-poor-will 13 
Chimney Swift 30 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 32 
Belted Kingfisher 40 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 22 
Downy Woodpecker 150 
Hairy Woodpecker 43 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Flicker 96 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 3 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 16 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 10 
Acadian Flycatcher 1 
Alder Flycatcher 22 
Willow Flycatcher 57 
Least Flycatcher 23 
Eastern Phoebe 92 
Say's Phoebe 1 
Great Crested Flycatcher 23 
Eastern Kingbird 116 
Northern Shrike 45 
White-eyed Vireo 4 
Yellow-throated Vireo 2 
Blue-headed Vireo 35 
Warbling Vireo 16 
Philadelphia Vireo 19 
Red-eyed Vireo 53 
Blue Jay 239 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Crow 294 
Fish Crow 7 
Horned Lark 98 
Purple Martin 89 
Tree Swallow 161 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 10 
Bank Swallow 64 
Cliff Swallow 14 
Barn Swallow 106 
Black-capped Chickadee 275 
Tufted Titmouse 7 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 96 
White-breasted Nuthatch 13 
Brown Creeper 31 
Carolina Wren 47 
House Wren 20 
Winter Wren 18 
Sedge Wren 1 
Marsh Wren 135 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 63 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 58 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 17 
Eastern Bluebird 6 
Veery 10 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 2 
Swainson's Thrush 16 
Hermit Thrush 72 
Wood Thrush 6 
American Robin 303 
Gray Catbird 193 
Northern Mockingbird 228 
Brown Thrasher 132 
European Starling 269 
American Pipit 54 
Bohemian Waxwing 3 
Cedar Waxwing 147 
Blue-winged Warbler 7 
Tennessee Warbler 4 
Orange-crowned Warbler 3 
Nashville Warbler 26 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Parula 41 
Yellow Warbler 107 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 23 
Magnolia Warbler 45 
Cape May Warbler 5 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 41 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 88 
Black-throated Green Warbler 44 
Blackburnian Warbler 21 
Yellow-throated Warbler 1 
Pine Warbler 16 
Prairie Warbler 19 
Palm Warbler 42 
Bay-breasted Warbler 14 
Blackpoll Warbler 43 
Black-and-white Warbler 53 
American Redstart 82 
Worm-eating Warbler 1 
Swainson's Warbler 7 
Ovenbird 25 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Waterthrush 20 
Louisiana Waterthrush 1 
Kentucky Warbler 1 
Connecticut Warbler 4 
Mourning Warbler 10 
Common Yellowthroat 119 
Hooded Warbler 4 
Wilson's Warbler 31 
Canada Warbler 21 
Yellow-breasted Chat 12 
Scarlet Tanager 19 
Eastern Towhee 156 
American Tree Sparrow 119 
Chipping Sparrow 48 
Clay-colored Sparrow 8 
Field Sparrow 98 
Vesper Sparrow 2 
Lark Sparrow 3 
Savannah Sparrow 144 
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 6 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow 90 
Seaside Sparrow 33 
Fox Sparrow 5 
Song Sparrow 260 
Lincoln's Sparrow 12 
Swamp Sparrow 102 
White-throated Sparrow 185 
White-crowned Sparrow 39 
Dark-eyed Junco 100 
Lapland Longspur 39 
Snow Bunting 76 
Northern Cardinal 258 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 27 
Blue Grosbeak 1 
Indigo Bunting 6 
Dickcissel 7 
Bobolink 102 
Red-winged Blackbird 164 
Eastern Meadowlark 88 
Rusty Blackbird 11 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Grackle 145 
Brown-headed Cowbird 100 
Orchard Oriole 9 
Baltimore Oriole 88 
Pine Grosbeak 11 
Purple Finch 139 
House Finch 133 
Red Crossbill 16 
White-winged Crossbill 5 
Common Redpoll 43 
Hoary Redpoll 5 
Pine Siskin 22 
American Goldfinch 214 
Evening Grosbeak 1 
House Sparrow 169 

Total species 295. Total reports 34,404. Total sightings 19,129.

December 31, 2007, Tom Wetmore