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2025 Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore

This table shows the 2025 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 2025.

Status of the Birds of Plum Island — updated October 16, 2025 — day 289

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 1 
Brant 71 
Canada Goose 278 
Mute Swan 192 
Wood Duck 16 
Blue-winged Teal 38 
Northern Shoveler 37 
Gadwall 230 
Eurasian Wigeon 17 
American Wigeon 44 
Mallard 278 
American Black Duck 268 
Northern Pintail 99 
Green-winged Teal 204 
Ring-necked Duck 6 
Greater Scaup 46 
Lesser Scaup 26 
King Eider 1 
Common Eider 233 
Surf Scoter 102 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
White-winged Scoter 151 
Black Scoter 176 
Long-tailed Duck 140 
Bufflehead 111 
Common Goldeneye 101 
Hooded Merganser 77 
Common Merganser 18 
Red-breasted Merganser 145 
Ruddy Duck 19 
Wild Turkey 176 
Pied-billed Grebe 30 
Horned Grebe 82 
Red-necked Grebe 45 
Rock Pigeon 191 
Mourning Dove 257 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 9 
Black-billed Cuckoo 24 
Common Nighthawk 5 
Eastern Whip-poor-will 27 
Chimney Swift 48 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 54 
King Rail 6 
Clapper Rail 40 
Virginia Rail 7 
Sora 3 
Common Gallinule 5 
American Coot 39 
Purple Gallinule 1 
Sandhill Crane 1 
Black-necked Stilt 11 
American Avocet 18 
American Oystercatcher 26 
Black-bellied Plover 131 
American Golden-Plover 61 
Killdeer 197 
Semipalmated Plover 151 
Piping Plover 141 
Upland Sandpiper 2 
Whimbrel 37 
Hudsonian Godwit 8 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ruddy Turnstone 47 
Red Knot 31 
Ruff 8 
Stilt Sandpiper 66 
Sanderling 150 
Dunlin 143 
Purple Sandpiper 12 
Baird's Sandpiper 7 
Least Sandpiper 140 
White-rumped Sandpiper 111 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 2 
Pectoral Sandpiper 53 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 152 
Western Sandpiper 5 
Short-billed Dowitcher 119 
Long-billed Dowitcher 53 
American Woodcock 32 
Wilson's Snipe 27 
Spotted Sandpiper 84 
Solitary Sandpiper 12 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Lesser Yellowlegs 149 
Willet 138 
Greater Yellowlegs 194 
Wilson's Phalarope 12 
Red-necked Phalarope 4 
Parasitic Jaeger 2 
Dovekie 1 
Thick-billed Murre 1 
Razorbill 35 
Black Guillemot 1 
Black-legged Kittiwake 2 
Bonaparte's Gull 60 
Little Gull 1 
Laughing Gull 84 
Ring-billed Gull 229 
Herring Gull 282 
Iceland Gull 4 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 31 
Glaucous Gull 1 
Great Black-backed Gull 264 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Least Tern 111 
Caspian Tern 8 
Black Tern 3 
Roseate Tern 58 
Common Tern 133 
Arctic Tern 6 
Forster's Tern 9 
Black Skimmer 2 
Red-throated Loon 80 
Common Loon 224 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 10 
Cory's Shearwater 1 
Sooty Shearwater 2 
Manx Shearwater 6 
Northern Gannet 79 
Great Cormorant 26 
Double-crested Cormorant 208 
American Bittern 7 
Least Bittern 72 
Great Blue Heron 184 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Great Egret 208 
Snowy Egret 189 
Little Blue Heron 9 
Tricolored Heron 33 
Green Heron 10 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 96 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 28 
Glossy Ibis 75 
White-faced Ibis 1 
Turkey Vulture 136 
Osprey 186 
Northern Harrier 218 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 35 
Cooper's Hawk 74 
Bald Eagle 116 
Red-shouldered Hawk 5 
Broad-winged Hawk 1 
Swainson's Hawk 8 
Red-tailed Hawk 64 
Rough-legged Hawk 21 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Great Horned Owl 5 
Snowy Owl 37 
Barred Owl 29 
Short-eared Owl 37 
Belted Kingfisher 65 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 32 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 32 
Downy Woodpecker 198 
Hairy Woodpecker 47 
Northern Flicker 185 
Pileated Woodpecker 1 
American Kestrel 42 
Merlin 125 
Peregrine Falcon 102 
Great Crested Flycatcher 106 
Western Kingbird 3 
Eastern Kingbird 135 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 5 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 60 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 13 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Alder Flycatcher 35 
Willow Flycatcher 88 
Least Flycatcher 32 
Eastern Phoebe 101 
White-eyed Vireo 9 
Yellow-throated Vireo 4 
Blue-headed Vireo 42 
Philadelphia Vireo 17 
Warbling Vireo 25 
Red-eyed Vireo 125 
Northern Shrike 4 
Blue Jay 257 
American Crow 207 
Fish Crow 61 
Common Raven 137 
Black-capped Chickadee 275 
Tufted Titmouse 45 
Horned Lark 39 
Bank Swallow 53 
Tree Swallow 183 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 16 
Purple Martin 128 
Barn Swallow 148 
Cliff Swallow 5 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 47 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 52 
Cedar Waxwing 159 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 100 
White-breasted Nuthatch 64 
Brown Creeper 44 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 49 
House Wren 74 
Winter Wren 16 
Marsh Wren 160 
Carolina Wren 127 
Gray Catbird 192 
Brown Thrasher 165 
Northern Mockingbird 262 
European Starling 252 
Eastern Bluebird 5 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Veery 20 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 2 
Swainson's Thrush 31 
Hermit Thrush 87 
Wood Thrush 15 
American Robin 282 
House Sparrow 250 
American Pipit 25 
House Finch 233 
Purple Finch 145 
Pine Siskin 4 
American Goldfinch 226 
Lapland Longspur 6 
Snow Bunting 20 
Chipping Sparrow 82 
Clay-colored Sparrow 14 
Field Sparrow 89 
Fox Sparrow 18 
American Tree Sparrow 85 
Dark-eyed Junco 93 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
White-crowned Sparrow 22 
White-throated Sparrow 109 
Vesper Sparrow 4 
Seaside Sparrow 67 
Nelson's Sparrow 19 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 132 
Savannah Sparrow 90 
Song Sparrow 272 
Lincoln's Sparrow 24 
Swamp Sparrow 154 
Eastern Towhee 187 
Yellow-breasted Chat 12 
Bobolink 113 
Eastern Meadowlark 9 
Orchard Oriole 84 
Baltimore Oriole 137 
Red-winged Blackbird 220 
Brown-headed Cowbird 118 
Common Grackle 205 
Ovenbird 68 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Worm-eating Warbler 2 
Northern Waterthrush 35 
Blue-winged Warbler 4 
Black-and-white Warbler 63 
Prothonotary Warbler 4 
Tennessee Warbler 16 
Orange-crowned Warbler 3 
Nashville Warbler 37 
Connecticut Warbler 6 
Mourning Warbler 13 
Common Yellowthroat 157 
Hooded Warbler 1 
American Redstart 139 
Cape May Warbler 28 
Northern Parula 59 
Magnolia Warbler 61 
Bay-breasted Warbler 35 
Blackburnian Warbler 25 
Yellow Warbler 141 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 36 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Blackpoll Warbler 50 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 46 
Palm Warbler 42 
Pine Warbler 13 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 71 
Yellow-throated Warbler 1 
Prairie Warbler 20 
Black-throated Green Warbler 51 
Canada Warbler 18 
Wilson's Warbler 32 
Summer Tanager 3 
Scarlet Tanager 23 
Northern Cardinal 271 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 59 
Blue Grosbeak 4 
Indigo Bunting 13 
Dickcissel 15 

Total species 277. Total reports 79,579. Total sightings 20,882.

October 16, 2025, Tom Wetmore