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 269 species on the list, with 260 on Plum Island, 4 state life birds, and 1 life bird.

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

December 27, 2008, Tom Wetmore