Tom’s 2025 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

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Tom’s 2025 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

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 212 species on the list, with 210 on Plum Island, and 1 state life bird.

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

June 12, 2025, Tom Wetmore