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. There are 181 species on the list, with 181 on Plum Island.
| Snow Goose | Short-billed Dowitcher | Least Flycatcher | Eastern Towhee |
| Brant | American Woodcock | Eastern Phoebe | Bobolink |
| Canada Goose | Wilson's Snipe | White-eyed Vireo | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Mute Swan | Spotted Sandpiper | Yellow-throated Vireo | Orchard Oriole |
| Wood Duck | Lesser Yellowlegs | Blue-headed Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| Blue-winged Teal | Willet | Blue Jay | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Northern Shoveler | Greater Yellowlegs | American Crow | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Gadwall | Wilson's Phalarope | Fish Crow | Common Grackle |
| American Wigeon | Thick-billed Murre | Common Raven | Ovenbird |
| Mallard | Razorbill | Black-capped Chickadee | Northern Waterthrush |
| American Black Duck | Ring-billed Gull | Tufted Titmouse | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Northern Pintail | Herring Gull | Horned Lark | Nashville Warbler |
| Green-winged Teal | Great Black-backed Gull | Tree Swallow | Common Yellowthroat |
| Ring-necked Duck | Least Tern | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | American Redstart |
| Greater Scaup | Roseate Tern | Purple Martin | Northern Parula |
| Lesser Scaup | Common Tern | Barn Swallow | Magnolia Warbler |
| Common Eider | Red-throated Loon | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Surf Scoter | Common Loon | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Yellow Warbler |
| White-winged Scoter | Northern Gannet | Bohemian Waxwing | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Black Scoter | Great Cormorant | Cedar Waxwing | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Long-tailed Duck | Double-crested Cormorant | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Palm Warbler |
| Bufflehead | American Bittern | White-breasted Nuthatch | Pine Warbler |
| Common Goldeneye | Least Bittern | Brown Creeper | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Hooded Merganser | Great Blue Heron | House Wren | Prairie Warbler |
| Common Merganser | Great Egret | Winter Wren | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Snowy Egret | Marsh Wren | Wilson's Warbler |
| Wild Turkey | Little Blue Heron | Carolina Wren | Scarlet Tanager |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Gray Catbird | Northern Cardinal |
| Horned Grebe | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Brown Thrasher | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Red-necked Grebe | Glossy Ibis | Northern Mockingbird | Blue Grosbeak |
| Rock Pigeon | Turkey Vulture | European Starling | Indigo Bunting |
| Mourning Dove | Osprey | Hermit Thrush | |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Northern Harrier | Wood Thrush | |
| Clapper Rail | Sharp-shinned Hawk | American Robin | |
| Virginia Rail | Cooper's Hawk | House Sparrow | |
| Sora | Bald Eagle | American Pipit | |
| American Oystercatcher | Red-tailed Hawk | House Finch | |
| Black-bellied Plover | Rough-legged Hawk | Purple Finch | |
| Killdeer | Snowy Owl | American Goldfinch | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Short-eared Owl | Lapland Longspur | |
| Piping Plover | Belted Kingfisher | Snow Bunting | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Chipping Sparrow | |
| Ruff | Downy Woodpecker | Field Sparrow | |
| Sanderling | Hairy Woodpecker | Fox Sparrow | |
| Dunlin | Northern Flicker | American Tree Sparrow | |
| Purple Sandpiper | American Kestrel | Dark-eyed Junco | |
| Least Sandpiper | Merlin | White-throated Sparrow | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Peregrine Falcon | Savannah Sparrow | |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Great Crested Flycatcher | Song Sparrow | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Eastern Kingbird | Swamp Sparrow |