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 240 species on the list, with 239 on Plum Island.
| Snow Goose | White-rumped Sandpiper | Bald Eagle | House Sparrow |
| Brant | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Red-shouldered Hawk | American Pipit |
| Cackling Goose | Pectoral Sandpiper | Red-tailed Hawk | House Finch |
| Canada Goose | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Rough-legged Hawk | Purple Finch |
| Mute Swan | Western Sandpiper | Snowy Owl | Pine Siskin |
| Wood Duck | Short-billed Dowitcher | Short-eared Owl | American Goldfinch |
| Blue-winged Teal | Long-billed Dowitcher | Belted Kingfisher | Lapland Longspur |
| Northern Shoveler | American Woodcock | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Snow Bunting |
| Gadwall | Wilson's Snipe | Downy Woodpecker | Lark Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Spotted Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | Chipping Sparrow |
| Mallard | Solitary Sandpiper | Northern Flicker | Field Sparrow |
| American Black Duck | Lesser Yellowlegs | American Kestrel | Fox Sparrow |
| Northern Pintail | Willet | Merlin | American Tree Sparrow |
| Green-winged Teal | Greater Yellowlegs | Peregrine Falcon | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Ring-necked Duck | Wilson's Phalarope | Great Crested Flycatcher | White-crowned Sparrow |
| Greater Scaup | Red-necked Phalarope | Eastern Kingbird | White-throated Sparrow |
| Lesser Scaup | Thick-billed Murre | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Seaside Sparrow |
| Common Eider | Razorbill | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Nelson's Sparrow |
| Surf Scoter | Black Guillemot | Alder Flycatcher | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| White-winged Scoter | Black-legged Kittiwake | Willow Flycatcher | Savannah Sparrow |
| Black Scoter | Bonaparte's Gull | Least Flycatcher | Song Sparrow |
| Long-tailed Duck | Laughing Gull | Eastern Phoebe | Swamp Sparrow |
| Bufflehead | Ring-billed Gull | White-eyed Vireo | Eastern Towhee |
| Common Goldeneye | Herring Gull | Yellow-throated Vireo | Bobolink |
| Hooded Merganser | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Common Merganser | Great Black-backed Gull | Philadelphia Vireo | Orchard Oriole |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Least Tern | Warbling Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| Wild Turkey | Black Tern | Red-eyed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Roseate Tern | Blue Jay | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Horned Grebe | Common Tern | American Crow | Rusty Blackbird |
| Red-necked Grebe | Forster's Tern | Fish Crow | Common Grackle |
| Rock Pigeon | Royal Tern | Common Raven | Ovenbird |
| Mourning Dove | Black Skimmer | Black-capped Chickadee | Northern Waterthrush |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Red-throated Loon | Tufted Titmouse | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Common Loon | Horned Lark | Tennessee Warbler |
| Common Nighthawk | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Bank Swallow | Orange-crowned Warbler |
| Chimney Swift | Leach's Storm-Petrel | Tree Swallow | Nashville Warbler |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Cory's Shearwater | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Mourning Warbler |
| King Rail | Sooty Shearwater | Purple Martin | Common Yellowthroat |
| Clapper Rail | Northern Gannet | Barn Swallow | American Redstart |
| Virginia Rail | Great Cormorant | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Northern Parula |
| Sora | Double-crested Cormorant | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Magnolia Warbler |
| Common Gallinule | American Bittern | Bohemian Waxwing | Blackburnian Warbler |
| American Oystercatcher | Least Bittern | Cedar Waxwing | Yellow Warbler |
| Black-bellied Plover | Great Blue Heron | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| American Golden-Plover | Great Egret | White-breasted Nuthatch | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Killdeer | Snowy Egret | Brown Creeper | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Semipalmated Plover | Little Blue Heron | House Wren | Palm Warbler |
| Piping Plover | Tricolored Heron | Winter Wren | Pine Warbler |
| Whimbrel | Green Heron | Marsh Wren | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Carolina Wren | Prairie Warbler |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Gray Catbird | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Red Knot | Glossy Ibis | Brown Thrasher | Canada Warbler |
| Ruff | White-faced Ibis | Northern Mockingbird | Wilson's Warbler |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Black Vulture | European Starling | Scarlet Tanager |
| Sanderling | Turkey Vulture | Veery | Northern Cardinal |
| Dunlin | Osprey | Swainson's Thrush | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Purple Sandpiper | Northern Harrier | Hermit Thrush | Blue Grosbeak |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Wood Thrush | Indigo Bunting |
| Least Sandpiper | Cooper's Hawk | American Robin | Dickcissel |