Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2026. All birds on the list were seen in Massachusetts. Birds in boldface were also seen on Plum Island. Birds in red are Plum Island life birds. There are 226 species on the list, with 226 on Plum Island.
| Snow Goose | Western Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | Field Sparrow |
| Brant | Short-billed Dowitcher | Northern Flicker | Fox Sparrow |
| Canada Goose | Long-billed Dowitcher | American Kestrel | American Tree Sparrow |
| Mute Swan | American Woodcock | Merlin | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Wood Duck | Wilson's Snipe | Peregrine Falcon | White-throated Sparrow |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spotted Sandpiper | Great Crested Flycatcher | Seaside Sparrow |
| Northern Shoveler | Solitary Sandpiper | Eastern Kingbird | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| Gadwall | Lesser Yellowlegs | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Savannah Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Willet | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Song Sparrow |
| Mallard | Greater Yellowlegs | Alder Flycatcher | Swamp Sparrow |
| American Black Duck | Wilson's Phalarope | Willow Flycatcher | Eastern Towhee |
| Northern Pintail | Red-necked Phalarope | Least Flycatcher | Bobolink |
| Green-winged Teal | Thick-billed Murre | Eastern Phoebe | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Ring-necked Duck | Razorbill | White-eyed Vireo | Orchard Oriole |
| Greater Scaup | Black Guillemot | Yellow-throated Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| Lesser Scaup | Bonaparte's Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Common Eider | Laughing Gull | Philadelphia Vireo | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Surf Scoter | Ring-billed Gull | Warbling Vireo | Common Grackle |
| White-winged Scoter | Herring Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Ovenbird |
| Black Scoter | Great Black-backed Gull | Blue Jay | Northern Waterthrush |
| Long-tailed Duck | Least Tern | American Crow | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Bufflehead | Black Tern | Fish Crow | Tennessee Warbler |
| Common Goldeneye | Roseate Tern | Common Raven | Nashville Warbler |
| Hooded Merganser | Common Tern | Black-capped Chickadee | Mourning Warbler |
| Common Merganser | Forster's Tern | Tufted Titmouse | Common Yellowthroat |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Royal Tern | Horned Lark | American Redstart |
| Wild Turkey | Black Skimmer | Bank Swallow | Northern Parula |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Red-throated Loon | Tree Swallow | Magnolia Warbler |
| Horned Grebe | Common Loon | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Red-necked Grebe | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Purple Martin | Yellow Warbler |
| Rock Pigeon | Northern Gannet | Barn Swallow | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Mourning Dove | Great Cormorant | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Double-crested Cormorant | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | American Bittern | Bohemian Waxwing | Palm Warbler |
| Chimney Swift | Least Bittern | Cedar Waxwing | Pine Warbler |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Great Blue Heron | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| King Rail | Great Egret | White-breasted Nuthatch | Prairie Warbler |
| Clapper Rail | Snowy Egret | Brown Creeper | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Virginia Rail | Little Blue Heron | House Wren | Canada Warbler |
| Sora | Tricolored Heron | Winter Wren | Wilson's Warbler |
| American Oystercatcher | Green Heron | Marsh Wren | Scarlet Tanager |
| Black-bellied Plover | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Carolina Wren | Northern Cardinal |
| American Golden-Plover | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Gray Catbird | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Killdeer | Glossy Ibis | Brown Thrasher | Blue Grosbeak |
| Semipalmated Plover | White-faced Ibis | Northern Mockingbird | Indigo Bunting |
| Piping Plover | Black Vulture | European Starling | Dickcissel |
| Whimbrel | Turkey Vulture | Veery | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Osprey | Swainson's Thrush | |
| Red Knot | Northern Harrier | Hermit Thrush | |
| Ruff | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Wood Thrush | |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Cooper's Hawk | American Robin | |
| Sanderling | Bald Eagle | House Sparrow | |
| Dunlin | Red-shouldered Hawk | American Pipit | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Red-tailed Hawk | House Finch | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Rough-legged Hawk | Purple Finch | |
| Least Sandpiper | Snowy Owl | American Goldfinch | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Short-eared Owl | Lapland Longspur | |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Belted Kingfisher | Snow Bunting | |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Lark Sparrow | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | Chipping Sparrow |