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 231 species on the list, with 229 on Plum Island, and 1 state life bird.
| Brant | White-rumped Sandpiper | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Fox Sparrow |
| Canada Goose | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | American Tree Sparrow |
| Mute Swan | Pectoral Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Wood Duck | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Northern Flicker | White-crowned Sparrow |
| Blue-winged Teal | Short-billed Dowitcher | American Kestrel | White-throated Sparrow |
| Northern Shoveler | Long-billed Dowitcher | Merlin | Seaside Sparrow |
| Gadwall | American Woodcock | Peregrine Falcon | Nelson's Sparrow |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Wilson's Snipe | Great Crested Flycatcher | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Spotted Sandpiper | Western Kingbird | Savannah Sparrow |
| Mallard | Solitary Sandpiper | Eastern Kingbird | Song Sparrow |
| American Black Duck | Lesser Yellowlegs | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Lincoln's Sparrow |
| Northern Pintail | Willet | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Swamp Sparrow |
| Green-winged Teal | Greater Yellowlegs | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Eastern Towhee |
| Greater Scaup | Wilson's Phalarope | Alder Flycatcher | Yellow-breasted Chat |
| Lesser Scaup | Razorbill | Willow Flycatcher | Bobolink |
| Common Eider | Bonaparte's Gull | Least Flycatcher | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Surf Scoter | Laughing Gull | Eastern Phoebe | Orchard Oriole |
| White-winged Scoter | Ring-billed Gull | White-eyed Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| Black Scoter | Herring Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Long-tailed Duck | Iceland Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Bufflehead | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Blue Jay | Common Grackle |
| Common Goldeneye | Great Black-backed Gull | American Crow | Ovenbird |
| Hooded Merganser | Least Tern | Fish Crow | Northern Waterthrush |
| Common Merganser | Roseate Tern | Common Raven | Blue-winged Warbler |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Common Tern | Black-capped Chickadee | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Ruddy Duck | Arctic Tern | Tufted Titmouse | Tennessee Warbler |
| Wild Turkey | Forster's Tern | Horned Lark | Nashville Warbler |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Black Skimmer | Bank Swallow | Mourning Warbler |
| Horned Grebe | Red-throated Loon | Tree Swallow | Common Yellowthroat |
| Red-necked Grebe | Common Loon | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | American Redstart |
| Rock Pigeon | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Purple Martin | Cape May Warbler |
| Mourning Dove | Manx Shearwater | Barn Swallow | Northern Parula |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Northern Gannet | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Magnolia Warbler |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Great Cormorant | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | Double-crested Cormorant | Cedar Waxwing | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Chimney Swift | American Bittern | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Yellow Warbler |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Least Bittern | White-breasted Nuthatch | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| King Rail | Great Blue Heron | Brown Creeper | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Clapper Rail | Great Egret | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Virginia Rail | Snowy Egret | House Wren | Palm Warbler |
| Common Gallinule | Tricolored Heron | Winter Wren | Pine Warbler |
| American Coot | Green Heron | Marsh Wren | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Black-necked Stilt | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Carolina Wren | Prairie Warbler |
| American Oystercatcher | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Gray Catbird | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Black-bellied Plover | Glossy Ibis | Brown Thrasher | Canada Warbler |
| American Golden-Plover | Black Vulture | Northern Mockingbird | Wilson's Warbler |
| Killdeer | Turkey Vulture | European Starling | Scarlet Tanager |
| Semipalmated Plover | Osprey | Veery | Northern Cardinal |
| Piping Plover | Northern Harrier | Gray-cheeked Thrush | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Upland Sandpiper | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Swainson's Thrush | Indigo Bunting |
| Whimbrel | Cooper's Hawk | Hermit Thrush | Dickcissel |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Bald Eagle | Wood Thrush | |
| Red Knot | Swainson's Hawk | American Robin | |
| Ruff | Red-tailed Hawk | House Sparrow | |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Rough-legged Hawk | House Finch | |
| Sanderling | Snowy Owl | Purple Finch | |
| Dunlin | Barred Owl | American Goldfinch | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Short-eared Owl | Snow Bunting | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Belted Kingfisher | Chipping Sparrow | |
| Least Sandpiper | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Field Sparrow |