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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 August 21, 2025 — day 233

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose
Brant 67 
Canada Goose 225 
Mute Swan 177 
Wood Duck 12 
Blue-winged Teal 31 
Northern Shoveler 34 
Gadwall 175 
Eurasian Wigeon 12 
American Wigeon 22 
Mallard 222 
American Black Duck 212 
Northern Pintail 67 
Green-winged Teal 149 
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup 45 
Lesser Scaup 26 
King Eider
Common Eider 184 
Surf Scoter 83 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
White-winged Scoter 122 
Black Scoter 164 
Long-tailed Duck 136 
Bufflehead 111 
Common Goldeneye 101 
Hooded Merganser 77 
Common Merganser 18 
Red-breasted Merganser 137 
Ruddy Duck 19 
Wild Turkey 127 
Pied-billed Grebe 10 
Horned Grebe 79 
Red-necked Grebe 44 
Rock Pigeon 152 
Mourning Dove 203 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo 24 
Common Nighthawk
Eastern Whip-poor-will 21 
Chimney Swift 44 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 40 
King Rail
Clapper Rail 38 
Virginia Rail
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot 39 
Purple Gallinule
Sandhill Crane
Black-necked Stilt 11 
American Oystercatcher 23 
Black-bellied Plover 77 
American Golden-Plover 25 
Killdeer 168 
Semipalmated Plover 96 
Piping Plover 123 
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel 11 
Hudsonian Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone 36 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Red Knot 11 
Ruff
Stilt Sandpiper 41 
Sanderling 107 
Dunlin 99 
Purple Sandpiper 12 
Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper 95 
White-rumped Sandpiper 60 
Pectoral Sandpiper 19 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 96 
Western Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher 79 
Long-billed Dowitcher 20 
American Woodcock 26 
Wilson's Snipe 27 
Spotted Sandpiper 63 
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs 98 
Willet 120 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Greater Yellowlegs 138 
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Parasitic Jaeger
Dovekie
Thick-billed Murre
Razorbill 35 
Black Guillemot
Black-legged Kittiwake
Bonaparte's Gull 48 
Little Gull
Laughing Gull 52 
Ring-billed Gull 173 
Herring Gull 226 
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull 16 
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull 209 
Least Tern 104 
Black Tern
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Roseate Tern 58 
Common Tern 110 
Arctic Tern
Black Skimmer
Red-throated Loon 71 
Common Loon 183 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 10 
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet 50 
Great Cormorant 24 
Double-crested Cormorant 152 
American Bittern
Least Bittern 71 
Great Blue Heron 129 
Great Egret 152 
Snowy Egret 133 
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron 15 
Green Heron 10 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black-crowned Night-Heron 68 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 21 
Glossy Ibis 70 
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture 94 
Osprey 148 
Northern Harrier 164 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 27 
Cooper's Hawk 41 
Bald Eagle 102 
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk 51 
Rough-legged Hawk 21 
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl 37 
Barred Owl 29 
Short-eared Owl 37 
Belted Kingfisher 37 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Red-bellied Woodpecker 16 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 14 
Downy Woodpecker 153 
Hairy Woodpecker 35 
Northern Flicker 138 
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel 41 
Merlin 82 
Peregrine Falcon 53 
Great Crested Flycatcher 93 
Eastern Kingbird 114 
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee 55 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 11 
Alder Flycatcher 35 
Willow Flycatcher 86 
Least Flycatcher 24 
Eastern Phoebe 55 
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Blue-headed Vireo 25 
Philadelphia Vireo
Warbling Vireo 18 
Red-eyed Vireo 79 
Northern Shrike
Blue Jay 202 
American Crow 164 
Fish Crow 61 
Common Raven 110 
Black-capped Chickadee 220 
Tufted Titmouse 36 
Horned Lark 35 
Bank Swallow 48 
Tree Swallow 139 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 16 
Purple Martin 125 
Barn Swallow 122 
Cliff Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 31 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 28 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Cedar Waxwing 105 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 56 
White-breasted Nuthatch 46 
Brown Creeper 20 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 42 
House Wren 61 
Winter Wren 10 
Marsh Wren 120 
Carolina Wren 78 
Gray Catbird 137 
Brown Thrasher 116 
Northern Mockingbird 207 
European Starling 199 
Eastern Bluebird
Veery 17 
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush 24 
Hermit Thrush 79 
Wood Thrush 15 
American Robin 226 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
House Sparrow 205 
American Pipit
House Finch 185 
Purple Finch 111 
American Goldfinch 174 
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting 20 
Chipping Sparrow 61 
Field Sparrow 68 
Fox Sparrow 18 
American Tree Sparrow 85 
Dark-eyed Junco 68 
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow 80 
Vesper Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow 66 
Nelson's Sparrow 13 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 94 
Savannah Sparrow 55 
Song Sparrow 216 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow 128 
Eastern Towhee 131 
Yellow-breasted Chat 10 
Bobolink 95 
Eastern Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole 82 
Baltimore Oriole 107 
Red-winged Blackbird 180 
Brown-headed Cowbird 116 
Common Grackle 177 
Ovenbird 67 
Worm-eating Warbler
Northern Waterthrush 31 
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler 40 
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler 21 
Mourning Warbler 11 
Common Yellowthroat 112 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
American Redstart 108 
Cape May Warbler 10 
Northern Parula 35 
Magnolia Warbler 34 
Bay-breasted Warbler 21 
Blackburnian Warbler 19 
Yellow Warbler 116 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 30 
Blackpoll Warbler 31 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 28 
Palm Warbler 25 
Pine Warbler 11 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 42 
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler 17 
Black-throated Green Warbler 30 
Canada Warbler 16 
Wilson's Warbler 20 
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager 18 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Cardinal 217 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 54 
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel

Total species 264. Total reports 61,254. Total sightings 16,054.

August 21, 2025, Tom Wetmore