Tom’s 2015 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

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Tom’s 2015 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2015. All birds on the list were seen in Massachusetts. Birds in boldface were also seen on Plum Island. Birds in yellow are Massachusetts life birds. Birds in purple are Plum Island life birds. There are 263 species on the list, with 256 on Plum Island, and 1 state life bird.

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

December 16, 2015, Tom Wetmore