Tom’s 2020 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

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Tom’s 2020 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2020. All birds on the list were seen in Massachusetts. Birds in boldface were also seen on Plum Island. Birds in pink are life birds. There are 236 species on the list, with 231 on Plum Island, and 1 life bird.

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

December 17, 2020, Tom Wetmore