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2014 Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore

This table shows the 2014 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 2014.

Status of the Birds of Plum Island — updated January 1, 2015 — day 1

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 4 
Brant 34 
Canada Goose 299 
Mute Swan 194 
Wood Duck 16 
Gadwall 229 
Eurasian Wigeon 40 
American Wigeon 103 
American Black Duck 285 
Mallard 273 
Blue-winged Teal 51 
Northern Shoveler 74 
Northern Pintail 129 
Green-winged Teal 161 
Ring-necked Duck 9 
Greater Scaup 38 
Lesser Scaup 45 
King Eider 2 
Common Eider 114 
Surf Scoter 57 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
White-winged Scoter 151 
Black Scoter 97 
Long-tailed Duck 126 
Bufflehead 118 
Common Goldeneye 111 
Hooded Merganser 97 
Common Merganser 20 
Red-breasted Merganser 145 
Ruddy Duck 15 
Ring-necked Pheasant 2 
Wild Turkey 235 
Red-throated Loon 96 
Common Loon 209 
Pied-billed Grebe 34 
Horned Grebe 109 
Red-necked Grebe 67 
Cory's Shearwater 3 
Manx Shearwater 1 
Northern Gannet 79 
Double-crested Cormorant 216 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Great Cormorant 53 
American White Pelican 1 
American Bittern 21 
Least Bittern 17 
Great Blue Heron 197 
Great Egret 196 
Snowy Egret 168 
Little Blue Heron 12 
Tricolored Heron 2 
Green Heron 34 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 76 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3 
Glossy Ibis 41 
Turkey Vulture 79 
Osprey 157 
Bald Eagle 132 
Northern Harrier 229 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 45 
Cooper's Hawk 91 
Northern Goshawk 2 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Red-shouldered Hawk 2 
Broad-winged Hawk 1 
Swainson's Hawk 1 
Red-tailed Hawk 141 
Rough-legged Hawk 79 
Virginia Rail 17 
Sora 4 
Common Gallinule 1 
American Coot 19 
Black-necked Stilt 1 
American Avocet 29 
American Oystercatcher 3 
Black-bellied Plover 163 
American Golden-Plover 23 
Semipalmated Plover 132 
Piping Plover 101 
Killdeer 142 
Spotted Sandpiper 72 
Solitary Sandpiper 10 
Greater Yellowlegs 187 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Willet 103 
Lesser Yellowlegs 102 
Upland Sandpiper 2 
Whimbrel 30 
Hudsonian Godwit 18 
Marbled Godwit 8 
Ruddy Turnstone 32 
Red Knot 43 
Ruff 1 
Stilt Sandpiper 34 
Sanderling 131 
Dunlin 120 
Purple Sandpiper 5 
Baird's Sandpiper 17 
Least Sandpiper 97 
White-rumped Sandpiper 61 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 3 
Pectoral Sandpiper 32 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 121 
Western Sandpiper 11 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Short-billed Dowitcher 105 
Long-billed Dowitcher 8 
Wilson's Snipe 15 
American Woodcock 63 
Wilson's Phalarope 2 
Red-necked Phalarope 2 
Red Phalarope 2 
Pomarine Jaeger 1 
Dovekie 2 
Thick-billed Murre 1 
Razorbill 27 
Black Guillemot 18 
Black-legged Kittiwake 13 
Bonaparte's Gull 58 
Little Gull 2 
Laughing Gull 42 
Ring-billed Gull 173 
Herring Gull 298 
Iceland Gull 3 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 12 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Glaucous Gull 2 
Great Black-backed Gull 273 
Least Tern 106 
Gull-billed Tern 9 
Caspian Tern 7 
Black Tern 7 
Roseate Tern 19 
Common Tern 104 
Forster's Tern 8 
Royal Tern 6 
Sandwich Tern 5 
Black Skimmer 10 
Rock Pigeon 221 
Mourning Dove 244 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 13 
Black-billed Cuckoo 21 
Eastern Screech-Owl 2 
Great Horned Owl 13 
Snowy Owl 124 
Barred Owl 18 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Long-eared Owl 1 
Short-eared Owl 27 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 2 
Common Nighthawk 2 
Eastern Whip-poor-will 32 
Chimney Swift 23 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 33 
Belted Kingfisher 34 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 16 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 11 
Downy Woodpecker 211 
Hairy Woodpecker 32 
Northern Flicker 146 
American Kestrel 32 
Merlin 92 
Peregrine Falcon 109 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 6 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 16 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 6 
Alder Flycatcher 42 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Willow Flycatcher 79 
Least Flycatcher 14 
Eastern Phoebe 75 
Great Crested Flycatcher 47 
Western Kingbird 1 
Eastern Kingbird 117 
Northern Shrike 55 
White-eyed Vireo 2 
Yellow-throated Vireo 1 
Blue-headed Vireo 27 
Warbling Vireo 9 
Philadelphia Vireo 11 
Red-eyed Vireo 86 
Blue Jay 258 
American Crow 294 
Fish Crow 4 
Common Raven 67 
Horned Lark 78 
Purple Martin 84 
Tree Swallow 162 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3 
Bank Swallow 62 
Cliff Swallow 7 
Barn Swallow 127 
Black-capped Chickadee 285 
Tufted Titmouse 26 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 83 
White-breasted Nuthatch 32 
Brown Creeper 23 
House Wren 14 
Winter Wren 23 
Sedge Wren 1 
Marsh Wren 119 
Carolina Wren 8 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 18 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 50 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 52 
Eastern Bluebird 2 
Veery 14 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Swainson's Thrush 14 
Hermit Thrush 74 
Wood Thrush 4 
American Robin 302 
Gray Catbird 170 
Brown Thrasher 139 
Northern Mockingbird 287 
European Starling 240 
American Pipit 33 
Cedar Waxwing 154 
Lapland Longspur 15 
Snow Bunting 60 
Ovenbird 22 
Worm-eating Warbler 1 
Northern Waterthrush 20 
Blue-winged Warbler 3 
Black-and-white Warbler 32 
Tennessee Warbler 5 
Orange-crowned Warbler 4 
Nashville Warbler 13 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Connecticut Warbler 1 
Mourning Warbler 4 
Common Yellowthroat 125 
Hooded Warbler 1 
American Redstart 86 
Cape May Warbler 7 
Northern Parula 31 
Magnolia Warbler 36 
Bay-breasted Warbler 8 
Blackburnian Warbler 12 
Yellow Warbler 111 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 20 
Blackpoll Warbler 27 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 25 
Palm Warbler 34 
Pine Warbler 37 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 113 
Prairie Warbler 14 
Black-throated Green Warbler 30 
Canada Warbler 13 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Wilson's Warbler 31 
Yellow-breasted Chat 3 
Eastern Towhee 175 
American Tree Sparrow 110 
Chipping Sparrow 60 
Clay-colored Sparrow 6 
Field Sparrow 66 
Vesper Sparrow 2 
Lark Sparrow 1 
Savannah Sparrow 108 
Grasshopper Sparrow 6 
Nelson's Sparrow 5 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 82 
Seaside Sparrow 48 
Fox Sparrow 18 
Song Sparrow 290 
Lincoln's Sparrow 5 
Swamp Sparrow 70 
White-throated Sparrow 130 
White-crowned Sparrow 26 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Dark-eyed Junco 78 
Summer Tanager 2 
Scarlet Tanager 17 
Northern Cardinal 260 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 24 
Indigo Bunting 2 
Bobolink 99 
Red-winged Blackbird 171 
Eastern Meadowlark 9 
Yellow-headed Blackbird 1 
Common Grackle 147 
Brown-headed Cowbird 95 
Orchard Oriole 34 
Baltimore Oriole 99 
House Finch 156 
Purple Finch 151 
Common Redpoll 1 
Pine Siskin 36 
American Goldfinch 205 
House Sparrow 243 

Total species 280. Total reports 30,610. Total sightings 18,495.

January 1, 2015, Tom Wetmore