Tom’s 2017 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

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Tom’s 2017 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2017. 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 265 species on the list, with 249 on Plum Island, and 2 state life birds.

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

November 7, 2017, Tom Wetmore