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 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

July 5, 2025, Tom Wetmore