Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2025. 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 218 species on the list, with 217 on Plum Island, and 1 state life bird.
Brant | Least Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | Snow Bunting |
Canada Goose | White-rumped Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | Chipping Sparrow |
Mute Swan | Pectoral Sandpiper | Northern Flicker | Field Sparrow |
Wood Duck | Semipalmated Sandpiper | American Kestrel | Fox Sparrow |
Blue-winged Teal | Short-billed Dowitcher | Merlin | American Tree Sparrow |
Northern Shoveler | American Woodcock | Peregrine Falcon | Dark-eyed Junco |
Gadwall | Wilson's Snipe | Great Crested Flycatcher | White-crowned Sparrow |
Eurasian Wigeon | Spotted Sandpiper | Eastern Kingbird | White-throated Sparrow |
American Wigeon | Solitary Sandpiper | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Seaside Sparrow |
Mallard | Lesser Yellowlegs | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Nelson's Sparrow |
American Black Duck | Willet | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
Northern Pintail | Greater Yellowlegs | Alder Flycatcher | Savannah Sparrow |
Green-winged Teal | Wilson's Phalarope | Willow Flycatcher | Song Sparrow |
Greater Scaup | Razorbill | Least Flycatcher | Lincoln's Sparrow |
Lesser Scaup | Bonaparte's Gull | Eastern Phoebe | Swamp Sparrow |
Common Eider | Laughing Gull | White-eyed Vireo | Eastern Towhee |
Surf Scoter | Ring-billed Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Yellow-breasted Chat |
White-winged Scoter | Herring Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Bobolink |
Black Scoter | Iceland Gull | Blue Jay | Eastern Meadowlark |
Long-tailed Duck | Great Black-backed Gull | American Crow | Orchard Oriole |
Bufflehead | Least Tern | Fish Crow | Baltimore Oriole |
Common Goldeneye | Roseate Tern | Common Raven | Red-winged Blackbird |
Hooded Merganser | Common Tern | Black-capped Chickadee | Brown-headed Cowbird |
Common Merganser | Arctic Tern | Tufted Titmouse | Common Grackle |
Red-breasted Merganser | Black Skimmer | Horned Lark | Ovenbird |
Ruddy Duck | Red-throated Loon | Bank Swallow | Northern Waterthrush |
Wild Turkey | Common Loon | Tree Swallow | Blue-winged Warbler |
Pied-billed Grebe | Northern Gannet | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Black-and-white Warbler |
Horned Grebe | Great Cormorant | Purple Martin | Tennessee Warbler |
Red-necked Grebe | Double-crested Cormorant | Barn Swallow | Nashville Warbler |
Rock Pigeon | American Bittern | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Mourning Warbler |
Mourning Dove | Least Bittern | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Common Yellowthroat |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Great Blue Heron | Cedar Waxwing | American Redstart |
Black-billed Cuckoo | Great Egret | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Cape May Warbler |
Eastern Whip-poor-will | Snowy Egret | White-breasted Nuthatch | Northern Parula |
Chimney Swift | Tricolored Heron | Brown Creeper | Magnolia Warbler |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Green Heron | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Bay-breasted Warbler |
King Rail | Black-crowned Night-Heron | House Wren | Blackburnian Warbler |
Clapper Rail | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Winter Wren | Yellow Warbler |
Common Gallinule | Glossy Ibis | Marsh Wren | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
American Coot | Turkey Vulture | Carolina Wren | Blackpoll Warbler |
Black-necked Stilt | Osprey | Gray Catbird | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
American Oystercatcher | Northern Harrier | Brown Thrasher | Palm Warbler |
Black-bellied Plover | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Northern Mockingbird | Pine Warbler |
American Golden-Plover | Cooper's Hawk | European Starling | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Killdeer | Bald Eagle | Veery | Prairie Warbler |
Semipalmated Plover | Swainson's Hawk | Gray-cheeked Thrush | Black-throated Green Warbler |
Piping Plover | Red-tailed Hawk | Swainson's Thrush | Canada Warbler |
Ruddy Turnstone | Rough-legged Hawk | Hermit Thrush | Wilson's Warbler |
Red Knot | Snowy Owl | Wood Thrush | Scarlet Tanager |
Ruff | Barred Owl | American Robin | Northern Cardinal |
Stilt Sandpiper | Short-eared Owl | House Sparrow | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
Sanderling | Belted Kingfisher | House Finch | Indigo Bunting |
Dunlin | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Purple Finch | |
Purple Sandpiper | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | American Goldfinch |