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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 June 13, 2025 — day 164

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 1 
Brant 67 
Canada Goose 157 
Mute Swan 116 
Wood Duck 9 
Blue-winged Teal 13 
Northern Shoveler 34 
Gadwall 106 
Eurasian Wigeon 2 
American Wigeon 21 
Mallard 153 
American Black Duck 149 
Northern Pintail 66 
Green-winged Teal 95 
Ring-necked Duck 6 
Greater Scaup 45 
Lesser Scaup 26 
Common Eider 120 
Surf Scoter 81 
White-winged Scoter 121 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black Scoter 129 
Long-tailed Duck 132 
Bufflehead 111 
Common Goldeneye 101 
Hooded Merganser 77 
Common Merganser 18 
Red-breasted Merganser 130 
Ruddy Duck 11 
Wild Turkey 69 
Pied-billed Grebe 9 
Horned Grebe 79 
Red-necked Grebe 44 
Rock Pigeon 111 
Mourning Dove 134 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 7 
Black-billed Cuckoo 20 
Common Nighthawk 4 
Eastern Whip-poor-will 10 
Chimney Swift 25 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 32 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Clapper Rail 34 
Virginia Rail 2 
Sora 1 
Common Gallinule 5 
American Coot 39 
Purple Gallinule 1 
Sandhill Crane 1 
Black-necked Stilt 10 
American Oystercatcher 11 
Black-bellied Plover 45 
American Golden-Plover 23 
Killdeer 100 
Semipalmated Plover 39 
Piping Plover 65 
Whimbrel 1 
Hudsonian Godwit 1 
Ruddy Turnstone 16 
Red Knot 4 
Sanderling 69 
Dunlin 90 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Purple Sandpiper 12 
Least Sandpiper 40 
White-rumped Sandpiper 24 
Pectoral Sandpiper 6 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 33 
Short-billed Dowitcher 23 
American Woodcock 21 
Wilson's Snipe 27 
Spotted Sandpiper 18 
Solitary Sandpiper 6 
Lesser Yellowlegs 41 
Willet 54 
Greater Yellowlegs 74 
Wilson's Phalarope 4 
Parasitic Jaeger 1 
Dovekie 1 
Thick-billed Murre 1 
Razorbill 35 
Black Guillemot 1 
Black-legged Kittiwake 2 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bonaparte's Gull 18 
Little Gull 1 
Laughing Gull 5 
Ring-billed Gull 108 
Herring Gull 157 
Iceland Gull 3 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 5 
Glaucous Gull 1 
Great Black-backed Gull 142 
Least Tern 35 
Black Tern 2 
Roseate Tern 20 
Common Tern 41 
Arctic Tern 1 
Red-throated Loon 69 
Common Loon 136 
Sooty Shearwater 2 
Manx Shearwater 2 
Northern Gannet 41 
Great Cormorant 24 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Double-crested Cormorant 83 
American Bittern 3 
Least Bittern 22 
Great Blue Heron 64 
Great Egret 83 
Snowy Egret 64 
Little Blue Heron 1 
Tricolored Heron 6 
Green Heron 8 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 4 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 17 
Glossy Ibis 29 
Turkey Vulture 67 
Osprey 79 
Northern Harrier 138 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 27 
Cooper's Hawk 32 
Bald Eagle 96 
Red-shouldered Hawk 3 
Broad-winged Hawk 2 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Swainson's Hawk 8 
Red-tailed Hawk 41 
Rough-legged Hawk 21 
Great Horned Owl 5 
Snowy Owl 37 
Barred Owl 29 
Short-eared Owl 37 
Belted Kingfisher 32 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 15 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 14 
Downy Woodpecker 111 
Hairy Woodpecker 35 
Northern Flicker 88 
Pileated Woodpecker 1 
American Kestrel 40 
Merlin 69 
Peregrine Falcon 24 
Great Crested Flycatcher 38 
Eastern Kingbird 45 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 4 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Eastern Wood-Pewee 20 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 10 
Alder Flycatcher 18 
Willow Flycatcher 26 
Least Flycatcher 23 
Eastern Phoebe 42 
White-eyed Vireo 8 
Yellow-throated Vireo 4 
Blue-headed Vireo 25 
Philadelphia Vireo 1 
Warbling Vireo 16 
Red-eyed Vireo 35 
Northern Shrike 4 
Blue Jay 143 
American Crow 122 
Fish Crow 52 
Common Raven 102 
Black-capped Chickadee 154 
Tufted Titmouse 29 
Horned Lark 35 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bank Swallow 17 
Tree Swallow 70 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 14 
Purple Martin 56 
Barn Swallow 54 
Cliff Swallow 4 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 31 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 28 
Cedar Waxwing 36 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 44 
White-breasted Nuthatch 33 
Brown Creeper 20 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 37 
House Wren 43 
Winter Wren 10 
Marsh Wren 51 
Carolina Wren 50 
Gray Catbird 68 
Brown Thrasher 53 
Northern Mockingbird 138 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
European Starling 130 
Eastern Bluebird 3 
Veery 17 
Gray-cheeked Thrush 2 
Swainson's Thrush 24 
Hermit Thrush 79 
Wood Thrush 13 
American Robin 157 
House Sparrow 137 
American Pipit 5 
House Finch 117 
Purple Finch 64 
American Goldfinch 105 
Lapland Longspur 4 
Snow Bunting 20 
Chipping Sparrow 42 
Field Sparrow 39 
Fox Sparrow 18 
American Tree Sparrow 85 
Dark-eyed Junco 67 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
White-crowned Sparrow 8 
White-throated Sparrow 80 
Vesper Sparrow 3 
Seaside Sparrow 27 
Nelson's Sparrow 9 
Saltmarsh Sparrow 29 
Savannah Sparrow 48 
Song Sparrow 147 
Lincoln's Sparrow 8 
Swamp Sparrow 78 
Eastern Towhee 62 
Bobolink 38 
Eastern Meadowlark 6 
Orchard Oriole 44 
Baltimore Oriole 46 
Red-winged Blackbird 111 
Brown-headed Cowbird 80 
Common Grackle 108 
Ovenbird 44 
Worm-eating Warbler 2 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Northern Waterthrush 29 
Blue-winged Warbler 4 
Black-and-white Warbler 36 
Tennessee Warbler 7 
Nashville Warbler 21 
Mourning Warbler 11 
Common Yellowthroat 44 
American Redstart 43 
Cape May Warbler 10 
Northern Parula 34 
Magnolia Warbler 33 
Bay-breasted Warbler 20 
Blackburnian Warbler 19 
Yellow Warbler 47 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 26 
Blackpoll Warbler 29 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 28 
Palm Warbler 25 
Pine Warbler 9 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 39 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Yellow-throated Warbler 1 
Prairie Warbler 16 
Black-throated Green Warbler 30 
Canada Warbler 16 
Wilson's Warbler 20 
Summer Tanager 1 
Scarlet Tanager 17 
Northern Cardinal 148 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 39 
Indigo Bunting 9 

Total species 250. Total reports 40,946. Total sightings 10,600.

June 13, 2025, Tom Wetmore