Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2008. All birds on the list were seen in Massachusetts. Birds in boldface were also seen on Plum Island. Birds in pink are life birds. Birds in yellow are Massachusetts life birds. Birds in purple are Plum Island life birds. There are 242 species on the list, with 231 on Plum Island, 3 state life birds, and 1 life bird.
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | King Rail | Belted Kingfisher | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Snow Goose | Virginia Rail | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Pine Warbler |
| Brant | Sora | Downy Woodpecker | Prairie Warbler |
| Canada Goose | Common Moorhen | Hairy Woodpecker | Palm Warbler |
| Mute Swan | American Coot | Northern Flicker | Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Wood Duck | Black-bellied Plover | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Gadwall | American Golden-Plover | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Black-and-white Warbler |
| American Wigeon | Semipalmated Plover | Alder Flycatcher | American Redstart |
| American Black Duck | Piping Plover | Willow Flycatcher | Ovenbird |
| Mallard | Killdeer | Least Flycatcher | Northern Waterthrush |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spotted Sandpiper | Eastern Phoebe | Mourning Warbler |
| Northern Shoveler | Solitary Sandpiper | Great Crested Flycatcher | Common Yellowthroat |
| Northern Pintail | Greater Yellowlegs | Eastern Kingbird | Wilson's Warbler |
| Green-winged Teal | Willet | Northern Shrike | Canada Warbler |
| Canvasback | Lesser Yellowlegs | White-eyed Vireo | Scarlet Tanager |
| Ring-necked Duck | Whimbrel | Yellow-throated Vireo | Eastern Towhee |
| Greater Scaup | Ruddy Turnstone | Blue-headed Vireo | American Tree Sparrow |
| King Eider | Red Knot | Warbling Vireo | Chipping Sparrow |
| Common Eider | Sanderling | Red-eyed Vireo | Field Sparrow |
| Harlequin Duck | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Blue Jay | Savannah Sparrow |
| Surf Scoter | Least Sandpiper | American Crow | Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow |
| White-winged Scoter | White-rumped Sandpiper | Horned Lark | Seaside Sparrow |
| Black Scoter | Pectoral Sandpiper | Purple Martin | Fox Sparrow |
| Long-tailed Duck | Purple Sandpiper | Tree Swallow | Song Sparrow |
| Bufflehead | Dunlin | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Lincoln's Sparrow |
| Common Goldeneye | Stilt Sandpiper | Bank Swallow | Swamp Sparrow |
| Hooded Merganser | Ruff | Cliff Swallow | White-throated Sparrow |
| Common Merganser | Short-billed Dowitcher | Barn Swallow | White-crowned Sparrow |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Wilson's Snipe | Black-capped Chickadee | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Ruddy Duck | American Woodcock | Tufted Titmouse | Lapland Longspur |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | Wilson's Phalarope | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Snow Bunting |
| Wild Turkey | Laughing Gull | White-breasted Nuthatch | Northern Cardinal |
| Red-throated Loon | Franklin's Gull | Brown Creeper | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Pacific Loon | Bonaparte's Gull | Carolina Wren | Indigo Bunting |
| Common Loon | Ring-billed Gull | House Wren | Bobolink |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Herring Gull | Winter Wren | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Horned Grebe | Iceland Gull | Marsh Wren | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Red-necked Grebe | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Common Grackle |
| Sooty Shearwater | Glaucous Gull | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Manx Shearwater | Great Black-backed Gull | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Orchard Oriole |
| Northern Gannet | Black-legged Kittiwake | Eastern Bluebird | Baltimore Oriole |
| Double-crested Cormorant | Least Tern | Veery | Purple Finch |
| Great Cormorant | Caspian Tern | Gray-cheeked Thrush | House Finch |
| American Bittern | Roseate Tern | Swainson's Thrush | Common Redpoll |
| Least Bittern | Common Tern | Hermit Thrush | Pine Siskin |
| Great Blue Heron | Forster's Tern | Wood Thrush | American Goldfinch |
| Great Egret | Royal Tern | American Robin | House Sparrow |
| Snowy Egret | Black Skimmer | Gray Catbird | |
| Little Blue Heron | Thick-billed Murre | Northern Mockingbird | |
| Tricolored Heron | Razorbill | Brown Thrasher | |
| Green Heron | Black Guillemot | European Starling | |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | Rock Pigeon | Bohemian Waxwing | |
| Glossy Ibis | Mourning Dove | Cedar Waxwing | |
| Turkey Vulture | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Blue-winged Warbler | |
| Osprey | Black-billed Cuckoo | Tennessee Warbler | |
| Bald Eagle | Eastern Screech-Owl | Orange-crowned Warbler | |
| Northern Harrier | Great Horned Owl | Nashville Warbler | |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | Snowy Owl | Northern Parula | |
| Cooper's Hawk | Barred Owl | Yellow Warbler | |
| Northern Goshawk | Long-eared Owl | Chestnut-sided Warbler | |
| Red-tailed Hawk | Short-eared Owl | Magnolia Warbler | |
| Rough-legged Hawk | Northern Saw-whet Owl | Cape May Warbler | |
| American Kestrel | Whip-poor-will | Black-throated Blue Warbler | |
| Merlin | Chimney Swift | Yellow-rumped Warbler | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Black-throated Green Warbler |