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 249 species on the list, with 247 on Plum Island, and 1 state life bird.
| Ross's Goose | Baird's Sandpiper | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Field Sparrow |
| Brant | Least Sandpiper | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Fox Sparrow |
| Canada Goose | White-rumped Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | American Tree Sparrow |
| Mute Swan | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Wood Duck | Pectoral Sandpiper | Northern Flicker | White-crowned Sparrow |
| Blue-winged Teal | Semipalmated Sandpiper | American Kestrel | White-throated Sparrow |
| Northern Shoveler | Short-billed Dowitcher | Merlin | Seaside Sparrow |
| Gadwall | Long-billed Dowitcher | Peregrine Falcon | Nelson's Sparrow |
| Eurasian Wigeon | American Woodcock | Great Crested Flycatcher | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Wilson's Snipe | Western Kingbird | Savannah Sparrow |
| Mallard | Spotted Sandpiper | Eastern Kingbird | Song Sparrow |
| American Black Duck | Solitary Sandpiper | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Lincoln's Sparrow |
| Northern Pintail | Lesser Yellowlegs | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Swamp Sparrow |
| Green-winged Teal | Willet | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Eastern Towhee |
| Canvasback | Greater Yellowlegs | Alder Flycatcher | Yellow-breasted Chat |
| Ring-necked Duck | Wilson's Phalarope | Willow Flycatcher | Bobolink |
| Greater Scaup | Razorbill | Least Flycatcher | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Lesser Scaup | Bonaparte's Gull | Eastern Phoebe | Orchard Oriole |
| Common Eider | Laughing Gull | White-eyed Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| Harlequin Duck | Ring-billed Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Surf Scoter | Herring Gull | Philadelphia Vireo | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| White-winged Scoter | Iceland Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Common Grackle |
| Black Scoter | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Blue Jay | Ovenbird |
| Long-tailed Duck | Great Black-backed Gull | American Crow | Northern Waterthrush |
| Bufflehead | Least Tern | Fish Crow | Blue-winged Warbler |
| Common Goldeneye | Roseate Tern | Common Raven | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Hooded Merganser | Common Tern | Black-capped Chickadee | Tennessee Warbler |
| Common Merganser | Arctic Tern | Tufted Titmouse | Orange-crowned Warbler |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Forster's Tern | Horned Lark | Nashville Warbler |
| Ruddy Duck | Black Skimmer | Bank Swallow | Mourning Warbler |
| Wild Turkey | Red-throated Loon | Tree Swallow | Common Yellowthroat |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Common Loon | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | American Redstart |
| Horned Grebe | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Purple Martin | Cape May Warbler |
| Red-necked Grebe | Cory's Shearwater | Barn Swallow | Northern Parula |
| Rock Pigeon | Manx Shearwater | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Magnolia Warbler |
| Mourning Dove | Northern Gannet | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Great Cormorant | Cedar Waxwing | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Double-crested Cormorant | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Yellow Warbler |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | American Bittern | White-breasted Nuthatch | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Chimney Swift | Least Bittern | Brown Creeper | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Great Blue Heron | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| King Rail | Great Egret | House Wren | Palm Warbler |
| Clapper Rail | Snowy Egret | Winter Wren | Pine Warbler |
| Virginia Rail | Little Blue Heron | Marsh Wren | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Sora | Tricolored Heron | Carolina Wren | Prairie Warbler |
| Common Gallinule | Green Heron | Gray Catbird | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| American Coot | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Brown Thrasher | Canada Warbler |
| Black-necked Stilt | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Northern Mockingbird | Wilson's Warbler |
| American Avocet | Glossy Ibis | European Starling | Scarlet Tanager |
| American Oystercatcher | Black Vulture | Veery | Northern Cardinal |
| Black-bellied Plover | Turkey Vulture | Gray-cheeked Thrush | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| American Golden-Plover | Osprey | Swainson's Thrush | Blue Grosbeak |
| Killdeer | Northern Harrier | Hermit Thrush | Indigo Bunting |
| Semipalmated Plover | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Wood Thrush | Dickcissel |
| Piping Plover | Cooper's Hawk | American Robin | |
| Upland Sandpiper | Bald Eagle | House Sparrow | |
| Whimbrel | Swainson's Hawk | American Pipit | |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Red-tailed Hawk | House Finch | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Rough-legged Hawk | Purple Finch | |
| Red Knot | Eastern Screech-Owl | Pine Siskin | |
| Ruff | Great Horned Owl | American Goldfinch | |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Snowy Owl | Lapland Longspur | |
| Sanderling | Barred Owl | Snow Bunting | |
| Dunlin | Short-eared Owl | Chipping Sparrow | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Belted Kingfisher | Clay-colored Sparrow |