2008 Year Lists from
Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Here are the current standings in the 2008 Plum Island year list contest. If you'd like to enter the contest send me an email so I can add you to the list of contestants. Then send me your sightings each time you bird on Plum Island, and my magical software will do the rest.

We haven't figured out what it means to win this contest. Plenty of time to figure that out.

	Species
		236	232	230	213	213	201	200	198	197	179	178	177	177	171	167	166	162	153	101	95	63
Snow Goose	1
Brant	2
Canada Goose	3
Mute Swan	4
Wood Duck	5
Gadwall	6
American Wigeon	7
American Black Duck	8
Mallard	9
Blue-winged Teal	10
Northern Shoveler	11
Northern Pintail	12
Green-winged Teal	13
Canvasback	14
Ring-necked Duck	15
Greater Scaup	16
Lesser Scaup	17
Common Eider	18
Surf Scoter	19
White-winged Scoter	20
Black Scoter	21
Long-tailed Duck	22
Bufflehead	23
Common Goldeneye	24
Hooded Merganser	25
Common Merganser	26
Red-breasted Merganser	27
Ruddy Duck	28
Ring-necked Pheasant	29
Wild Turkey	30
Red-throated Loon	31
Pacific Loon	32
Common Loon	33
Pied-billed Grebe	34
Horned Grebe	35
Red-necked Grebe	36
Cory's Shearwater	37
Sooty Shearwater	38
Manx Shearwater	39
Wilson's Storm-Petrel	40
Northern Gannet	41
Double-crested Cormorant	42
Great Cormorant	43
American Bittern	44
Least Bittern	45
Great Blue Heron	46
Great Egret	47
Snowy Egret	48
Little Blue Heron	49
Tricolored Heron	50
Green Heron	51
Black-crowned Night-Heron	52
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron	53
Glossy Ibis	54
Turkey Vulture	55
Osprey	56
Bald Eagle	57
Northern Harrier	58
Sharp-shinned Hawk	59
Cooper's Hawk	60
Northern Goshawk	61
Red-shouldered Hawk	62
Broad-winged Hawk	63
Red-tailed Hawk	64
Rough-legged Hawk	65
American Kestrel	66
Merlin	67
Peregrine Falcon	68
King Rail	69
Virginia Rail	70
Sora	71
Common Moorhen	72
American Coot	73
Sandhill Crane	74
Black-bellied Plover	75
American Golden-Plover	76
Semipalmated Plover	77
Piping Plover	78
Killdeer	79
Spotted Sandpiper	80
Solitary Sandpiper	81
Greater Yellowlegs	82
Willet	83
Lesser Yellowlegs	84
Whimbrel	85
Marbled Godwit	86
Ruddy Turnstone	87
Red Knot	88
Sanderling	89
Semipalmated Sandpiper	90
Western Sandpiper	91
Least Sandpiper	92
White-rumped Sandpiper	93
Baird's Sandpiper	94
Pectoral Sandpiper	95
Purple Sandpiper	96
Dunlin	97
Stilt Sandpiper	98
Buff-breasted Sandpiper	99
Ruff	100
Short-billed Dowitcher	101
Long-billed Dowitcher	102
Wilson's Snipe	103
American Woodcock	104
Wilson's Phalarope	105
Black-legged Kittiwake	106
Bonaparte's Gull	107
Black-headed Gull	108
Little Gull	109
Laughing Gull	110
Franklin's Gull	111
Ring-billed Gull	112
Herring Gull	113
Iceland Gull	114
Lesser Black-backed Gull	115
Glaucous Gull	116
Great Black-backed Gull	117
Least Tern	118
Gull-billed Tern	119
Caspian Tern	120
Black Tern	121
Roseate Tern	122
Common Tern	123
Forster's Tern	124
Royal Tern	125
Black Skimmer	126
Parasitic Jaeger	127
Common Murre	128
Thick-billed Murre	129
Razorbill	130
Black Guillemot	131
Rock Pigeon	132
Mourning Dove	133
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	134
Black-billed Cuckoo	135
Eastern