Tom’s Birding Page

2015 Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore

This table shows the 2015 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 2015.

Status of the Birds of Plum Island — updated January 1, 2016 — day 1

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 4 
Ross's Goose 2 
Brant 46 
Canada Goose 290 
Mute Swan 116 
Wood Duck 19 
Gadwall 206 
Eurasian Wigeon 33 
American Wigeon 105 
American Black Duck 282 
Mallard 275 
Blue-winged Teal 62 
Northern Shoveler 99 
Northern Pintail 123 
Green-winged Teal 224 
Canvasback 2 
Ring-necked Duck 4 
Greater Scaup 48 
Lesser Scaup 15 
King Eider 1 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Common Eider 192 
Surf Scoter 98 
White-winged Scoter 169 
Black Scoter 141 
Long-tailed Duck 127 
Bufflehead 118 
Common Goldeneye 70 
Hooded Merganser 86 
Common Merganser 19 
Red-breasted Merganser 143 
Ruddy Duck 12 
Wild Turkey 167 
Red-throated Loon 117 
Common Loon 200 
Pied-billed Grebe 86 
Horned Grebe 84 
Red-necked Grebe 77 
Cory's Shearwater 6 
Great Shearwater 4 
Manx Shearwater 3 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 10 
Northern Gannet 120 
Double-crested Cormorant 219 
Great Cormorant 34 
American White Pelican 1 
American Bittern 22 
Least Bittern 9 
Great Blue Heron 177 
Great Egret 192 
Snowy Egret 160 
Little Blue Heron 1 
Tricolored Heron 1 
Cattle Egret 2 
Green Heron 8 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 109 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 50 
Glossy Ibis 45 
White-faced Ibis 1 
Black Vulture 1 
Turkey Vulture 93 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Osprey 158 
Mississippi Kite 1 
Bald Eagle 116 
Northern Harrier 207 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 44 
Cooper's Hawk 80 
Northern Goshawk 1 
Red-shouldered Hawk 3 
Broad-winged Hawk 1 
Red-tailed Hawk 130 
Rough-legged Hawk 53 
Virginia Rail 10 
Sora 2 
Common Gallinule 1 
American Coot 5 
American Avocet 12 
American Oystercatcher 2 
Black-bellied Plover 161 
American Golden-Plover 36 
Semipalmated Plover 152 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Piping Plover 98 
Killdeer 137 
Spotted Sandpiper 74 
Solitary Sandpiper 11 
Greater Yellowlegs 198 
Willet 101 
Lesser Yellowlegs 129 
Upland Sandpiper 1 
Whimbrel 35 
Hudsonian Godwit 14 
Marbled Godwit 1 
Ruddy Turnstone 36 
Red Knot 19 
Ruff 4 
Stilt Sandpiper 54 
Curlew Sandpiper 1 
Sanderling 120 
Dunlin 133 
Purple Sandpiper 7 
Baird's Sandpiper 23 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Least Sandpiper 113 
White-rumped Sandpiper 93 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 9 
Pectoral Sandpiper 37 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 138 
Western Sandpiper 26 
Short-billed Dowitcher 100 
Long-billed Dowitcher 20 
Wilson's Snipe 5 
American Woodcock 35 
Wilson's Phalarope 27 
Red-necked Phalarope 3 
Red Phalarope 9 
Parasitic Jaeger 3 
Dovekie 1 
Common Murre 2 
Thick-billed Murre 3 
Razorbill 56 
Black-legged Kittiwake 20 
Bonaparte's Gull 99 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Little Gull 5 
Laughing Gull 26 
Ring-billed Gull 214 
Herring Gull 301 
Iceland Gull 5 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 13 
Glaucous Gull 1 
Great Black-backed Gull 284 
Least Tern 102 
Gull-billed Tern 1 
Caspian Tern 8 
Black Tern 6 
Roseate Tern 21 
Common Tern 113 
Arctic Tern 1 
Forster's Tern 2 
Royal Tern 2 
Rock Pigeon 230 
Mourning Dove 237 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 11 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-billed Cuckoo 20 
Great Horned Owl 11 
Snowy Owl 69 
Barred Owl 6 
Short-eared Owl 10 
Northern Saw-whet Owl 1 
Common Nighthawk 2 
Eastern Whip-poor-will 17 
Chimney Swift 29 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 33 
Belted Kingfisher 25 
Red-headed Woodpecker 2 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 12 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 5 
Downy Woodpecker 183 
Hairy Woodpecker 32 
Northern Flicker 123 
American Kestrel 35 
Merlin 95 
Peregrine Falcon 107 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Prairie Falcon 1 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 25 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 9 
Acadian Flycatcher 1 
Alder Flycatcher 8 
Willow Flycatcher 77 
Least Flycatcher 15 
Eastern Phoebe 127 
Great Crested Flycatcher 54 
Western Kingbird 9 
Eastern Kingbird 115 
Northern Shrike 1 
White-eyed Vireo 7 
Yellow-throated Vireo 2 
Blue-headed Vireo 37 
Warbling Vireo 38 
Philadelphia Vireo 8 
Red-eyed Vireo 86 
Blue Jay 260 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Crow 299 
Fish Crow 6 
Common Raven 8 
Horned Lark 51 
Purple Martin 90 
Tree Swallow 171 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4 
Bank Swallow 47 
Cliff Swallow 2 
Cave Swallow 2 
Barn Swallow 123 
Black-capped Chickadee 285 
Tufted Titmouse 25 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 52 
White-breasted Nuthatch 100 
Brown Creeper 22 
House Wren 20 
Winter Wren 12 
Marsh Wren 104 
Carolina Wren 3 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 15 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 44 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 54 
Eastern Bluebird 1 
Veery 20 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 3 
Swainson's Thrush 19 
Hermit Thrush 79 
Wood Thrush 10 
American Robin 284 
Gray Catbird 184 
Brown Thrasher 137 
Northern Mockingbird 255 
European Starling 243 
American Pipit 23 
Cedar Waxwing 166 
Lapland Longspur 14 
Snow Bunting 52 
Ovenbird 26 
Worm-eating Warbler 2 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Waterthrush 26 
Blue-winged Warbler 5 
Black-and-white Warbler 52 
Prothonotary Warbler 1 
Tennessee Warbler 9 
Orange-crowned Warbler 3 
Nashville Warbler 20 
Connecticut Warbler 3 
Mourning Warbler 5 
Common Yellowthroat 123 
American Redstart 83 
Cape May Warbler 11 
Cerulean Warbler 2 
Northern Parula 31 
Magnolia Warbler 33 
Bay-breasted Warbler 10 
Blackburnian Warbler 18 
Yellow Warbler 114 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 24 
Blackpoll Warbler 39 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-throated Blue Warbler 29 
Palm Warbler 28 
Pine Warbler 40 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 92 
Prairie Warbler 19 
Black-throated Green Warbler 28 
Canada Warbler 22 
Wilson's Warbler 27 
Yellow-breasted Chat 1 
Eastern Towhee 186 
American Tree Sparrow 98 
Chipping Sparrow 54 
Clay-colored Sparrow 9 
Field Sparrow 80 
Vesper Sparrow 3 
Lark Sparrow 10 
Savannah Sparrow 131 
Grasshopper Sparrow 2 
Nelson's Sparrow 5 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 90 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Seaside Sparrow 35 
Fox Sparrow 19 
Song Sparrow 267 
Lincoln's Sparrow 4 
Swamp Sparrow 98 
White-throated Sparrow 115 
White-crowned Sparrow 26 
Dark-eyed Junco 92 
Summer Tanager 7 
Scarlet Tanager 22 
Western Tanager 3 
Northern Cardinal 256 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 25 
Indigo Bunting 4 
Dickcissel 9 
Bobolink 104 
Red-winged Blackbird 170 
Eastern Meadowlark 8 
Rusty Blackbird 4 
Common Grackle 147 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Brown-headed Cowbird 92 
Orchard Oriole 47 
Baltimore Oriole 119 
House Finch 196 
Purple Finch 151 
Red Crossbill 1 
Common Redpoll 17 
Hoary Redpoll 1 
Pine Siskin 22 
American Goldfinch 245 
Evening Grosbeak 1 
House Sparrow 270 

Total species 292. Total reports 33,896. Total sightings 18,781.

January 1, 2016, Tom Wetmore