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 234 species on the list, with 234 on Plum Island.
| Snow Goose | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Red-shouldered Hawk | American Pipit |
| Brant | Pectoral Sandpiper | Red-tailed Hawk | House Finch |
| Canada Goose | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Rough-legged Hawk | Purple Finch |
| Mute Swan | Western Sandpiper | Snowy Owl | American Goldfinch |
| Wood Duck | Short-billed Dowitcher | Short-eared Owl | Lapland Longspur |
| Blue-winged Teal | Long-billed Dowitcher | Belted Kingfisher | Snow Bunting |
| Northern Shoveler | American Woodcock | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Lark Sparrow |
| Gadwall | Wilson's Snipe | Downy Woodpecker | Chipping Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Spotted Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | Field Sparrow |
| Mallard | Solitary Sandpiper | Northern Flicker | Fox Sparrow |
| American Black Duck | Lesser Yellowlegs | American Kestrel | American Tree Sparrow |
| Northern Pintail | Willet | Merlin | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Green-winged Teal | Greater Yellowlegs | Peregrine Falcon | White-throated Sparrow |
| Ring-necked Duck | Wilson's Phalarope | Great Crested Flycatcher | Seaside Sparrow |
| Greater Scaup | Red-necked Phalarope | Eastern Kingbird | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| Lesser Scaup | Thick-billed Murre | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Savannah Sparrow |
| Common Eider | Razorbill | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Song Sparrow |
| Surf Scoter | Black Guillemot | Alder Flycatcher | Swamp Sparrow |
| White-winged Scoter | Black-legged Kittiwake | Willow Flycatcher | Eastern Towhee |
| Black Scoter | Bonaparte's Gull | Least Flycatcher | Bobolink |
| Long-tailed Duck | Laughing Gull | Eastern Phoebe | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Bufflehead | Ring-billed Gull | White-eyed Vireo | Orchard Oriole |
| Common Goldeneye | Herring Gull | Yellow-throated Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| Hooded Merganser | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Common Merganser | Great Black-backed Gull | Philadelphia Vireo | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Least Tern | Warbling Vireo | Common Grackle |
| Wild Turkey | Black Tern | Red-eyed Vireo | Ovenbird |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Roseate Tern | Blue Jay | Northern Waterthrush |
| Horned Grebe | Common Tern | American Crow | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Red-necked Grebe | Forster's Tern | Fish Crow | Tennessee Warbler |
| Rock Pigeon | Royal Tern | Common Raven | Nashville Warbler |
| Mourning Dove | Black Skimmer | Black-capped Chickadee | Mourning Warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Red-throated Loon | Tufted Titmouse | Common Yellowthroat |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Common Loon | Horned Lark | American Redstart |
| Common Nighthawk | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Bank Swallow | Northern Parula |
| Chimney Swift | Leach's Storm-Petrel | Tree Swallow | Magnolia Warbler |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Cory's Shearwater | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Blackburnian Warbler |
| King Rail | Sooty Shearwater | Purple Martin | Yellow Warbler |
| Clapper Rail | Northern Gannet | Barn Swallow | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Virginia Rail | Great Cormorant | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Sora | Double-crested Cormorant | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Common Gallinule | American Bittern | Bohemian Waxwing | Palm Warbler |
| American Oystercatcher | Least Bittern | Cedar Waxwing | Pine Warbler |
| Black-bellied Plover | Great Blue Heron | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| American Golden-Plover | Great Egret | White-breasted Nuthatch | Prairie Warbler |
| Killdeer | Snowy Egret | Brown Creeper | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Semipalmated Plover | Little Blue Heron | House Wren | Canada Warbler |
| Piping Plover | Tricolored Heron | Winter Wren | Wilson's Warbler |
| Whimbrel | Green Heron | Marsh Wren | Scarlet Tanager |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Carolina Wren | Northern Cardinal |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Gray Catbird | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Red Knot | Glossy Ibis | Brown Thrasher | Blue Grosbeak |
| Ruff | White-faced Ibis | Northern Mockingbird | Indigo Bunting |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Black Vulture | European Starling | Dickcissel |
| Sanderling | Turkey Vulture | Veery | |
| Dunlin | Osprey | Swainson's Thrush | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Northern Harrier | Hermit Thrush | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Wood Thrush | |
| Least Sandpiper | Cooper's Hawk | American Robin | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Bald Eagle | House Sparrow |