Tom’s 2008 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

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Tom’s 2008 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2008. All birds on the list were seen in Massachusetts. Birds in boldface were also seen on Plum Island. Birds in pink are life birds. Birds in yellow are Massachusetts life birds. Birds in purple are Plum Island life birds. There are 246 species on the list, with 236 on Plum Island, 3 state life birds, and 1 life bird.

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck	Peregrine Falcon	Whip-poor-will	Black-throated Blue Warbler
Snow Goose	King Rail	Chimney Swift	Yellow-rumped Warbler
Brant	Virginia Rail	Ruby-throated Hummingbird	Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Goose	Sora	Belted Kingfisher	Blackburnian Warbler
Mute Swan	Common Moorhen	Red-bellied Woodpecker	Pine Warbler
Wood Duck	American Coot	Downy Woodpecker	Prairie Warbler
Gadwall	Black-bellied Plover	Hairy Woodpecker	Palm Warbler
American Wigeon	American Golden-Plover	Northern Flicker	Bay-breasted Warbler
American Black Duck	Semipalmated Plover	Eastern Wood-Pewee	Blackpoll Warbler
Mallard	Piping Plover	Yellow-bellied Flycatcher	Cerulean Warbler
Blue-winged Teal	Killdeer	Alder Flycatcher	Black-and-white Warbler
Northern Shoveler	Spotted Sandpiper	Willow Flycatcher	American Redstart
Northern Pintail	Solitary Sandpiper	Least Flycatcher	Ovenbird
Green-winged Teal	Greater Yellowlegs	Eastern Phoebe	Northern Waterthrush
Canvasback	Willet	Great Crested Flycatcher	Mourning Warbler
Ring-necked Duck	Lesser Yellowlegs	Eastern Kingbird	Common Yellowthroat
Greater Scaup	Whimbrel	Northern Shrike	Wilson's Warbler
King Eider	Marbled Godwit	White-eyed Vireo	Canada Warbler
Common Eider	Ruddy Turnstone	Yellow-throated Vireo	Scarlet Tanager
Harlequin Duck	Red Knot	Blue-headed Vireo	Eastern Towhee
Surf Scoter	Sanderling	Warbling Vireo	American Tree Sparrow
White-winged Scoter	Semipalmated Sandpiper	Red-eyed Vireo	Chipping Sparrow
Black Scoter	Least Sandpiper	Blue Jay	Field Sparrow
Long-tailed Duck	White-rumped Sandpiper	American Crow	Savannah Sparrow
Bufflehead	Pectoral Sandpiper	Horned Lark	Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Common Goldeneye	Purple Sandpiper	Purple Martin	Seaside Sparrow
Hooded Merganser	Dunlin	Tree Swallow	Fox Sparrow
Common Merganser	Stilt Sandpiper	Northern Rough-winged Swallow	Song Sparrow
Red-breasted Merganser	Ruff	Bank Swallow	Lincoln's Sparrow
Ruddy Duck	Short-billed Dowitcher	Cliff Swallow	Swamp Sparrow
Ring-necked Pheasant	Wilson's Snipe	Barn Swallow	White-throated Sparrow
Wild Turkey	American Woodcock	Black-capped Chickadee	White-crowned Sparrow
Red-throated Loon	Wilson's Phalarope	Tufted Titmouse	Dark-eyed Junco
Pacific Loon	Black-legged Kittiwake	Red-breasted Nuthatch	Lapland Longspur
Common Loon	Bonaparte's Gull	White-breasted Nuthatch	Snow Bunting
Pied-billed Grebe	Laughing Gull	Brown Creeper	Northern Cardinal
Horned Grebe	Franklin's Gull	Carolina Wren	Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Red-necked Grebe	Ring-billed Gull	House Wren	Indigo Bunting
Sooty Shearwater	Herring Gull	Winter Wren	Bobolink
Manx Shearwater	Iceland Gull	Marsh Wren	Red-winged Blackbird
Wilson's Storm-Petrel	Lesser Black-backed Gull	Golden-crowned Kinglet	Eastern Meadowlark
Northern Gannet	Glaucous Gull	Ruby-crowned Kinglet	Common Grackle
Double-crested Cormorant	Great Black-backed Gull	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	Brown-headed Cowbird
Great Cormorant	Least Tern	Eastern Bluebird	Orchard Oriole
American Bittern	Caspian Tern	Veery	Baltimore Oriole
Least Bittern	Black Tern	Gray-cheeked Thrush	Purple Finch
Great Blue Heron	Roseate Tern	Swainson's Thrush	House Finch
Great Egret	Common Tern	Hermit Thrush	Common Redpoll
Snowy Egret	Forster's Tern	Wood Thrush	Pine Siskin
Little Blue Heron	Royal Tern	American Robin	American Goldfinch
Tricolored Heron	Black Skimmer	Gray Catbird	House Sparrow
Green Heron	Thick-billed Murre	Northern Mockingbird
Black-crowned Night-Heron	Razorbill	Brown Thrasher
Glossy Ibis	Black Guillemot	European Starling
Turkey Vulture	Rock Pigeon	Bohemian Waxwing
Osprey	Mourning Dove	Cedar Waxwing
Bald Eagle	Yellow-billed Cuckoo	Blue-winged Warbler
Northern Harrier	Black-billed Cuckoo	Tennessee Warbler
Sharp-shinned Hawk	Eastern Screech-Owl	Orange-crowned Warbler
Cooper's Hawk	Great Horned Owl	Nashville Warbler
Northern Goshawk	Snowy Owl	Northern Parula
Red-tailed Hawk	Barred Owl	Yellow Warbler
Rough-legged Hawk	Long-eared Owl	Chestnut-sided Warbler
American Kestrel	Short-eared Owl	Magnolia Warbler
Merlin	Northern Saw-whet Owl	Cape May Warbler

August 17, 2008, Tom Wetmore