Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2010. 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 237 species on the list, with 225 on Plum Island, 1 state life bird, and 2 life birds.
| Snow Goose | Red-tailed Hawk | Whip-poor-will | Nashville Warbler |
| Brant | Rough-legged Hawk | Chimney Swift | Northern Parula |
| Canada Goose | American Kestrel | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Yellow Warbler |
| Mute Swan | Merlin | Belted Kingfisher | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Wood Duck | Peregrine Falcon | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Magnolia Warbler |
| Gadwall | Black Rail | Downy Woodpecker | Cape May Warbler |
| American Wigeon | Clapper Rail | Hairy Woodpecker | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| American Black Duck | Virginia Rail | Northern Flicker | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Mallard | Sora | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Blue-winged Teal | Common Moorhen | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Northern Shoveler | American Coot | Alder Flycatcher | Pine Warbler |
| Northern Pintail | Black-bellied Plover | Willow Flycatcher | Prairie Warbler |
| Green-winged Teal | Semipalmated Plover | Least Flycatcher | Palm Warbler |
| Ring-necked Duck | Piping Plover | Eastern Phoebe | Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Greater Scaup | Killdeer | Great Crested Flycatcher | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Lesser Scaup | Spotted Sandpiper | Eastern Kingbird | Black-and-white Warbler |
| King Eider | Solitary Sandpiper | Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | American Redstart |
| Common Eider | Greater Yellowlegs | Northern Shrike | Ovenbird |
| Surf Scoter | Willet | Yellow-throated Vireo | Northern Waterthrush |
| White-winged Scoter | Lesser Yellowlegs | Blue-headed Vireo | Louisiana Waterthrush |
| Black Scoter | Upland Sandpiper | Warbling Vireo | Mourning Warbler |
| Long-tailed Duck | Hudsonian Godwit | Red-eyed Vireo | Common Yellowthroat |
| Bufflehead | Ruddy Turnstone | Blue Jay | Wilson's Warbler |
| Common Goldeneye | Red Knot | American Crow | Canada Warbler |
| Barrow's Goldeneye | Sanderling | Fish Crow | Eastern Towhee |
| Hooded Merganser | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Common Raven | American Tree Sparrow |
| Common Merganser | Least Sandpiper | Horned Lark | Chipping Sparrow |
| Red-breasted Merganser | White-rumped Sandpiper | Purple Martin | Clay-colored Sparrow |
| Ruddy Duck | Pectoral Sandpiper | Tree Swallow | Field Sparrow |
| Wild Turkey | Purple Sandpiper | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Savannah Sparrow |
| Red-throated Loon | Dunlin | Bank Swallow | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| Common Loon | Stilt Sandpiper | Cliff Swallow | Seaside Sparrow |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Short-billed Dowitcher | Barn Swallow | Fox Sparrow |
| Horned Grebe | Long-billed Dowitcher | Black-capped Chickadee | Song Sparrow |
| Red-necked Grebe | Wilson's Snipe | Tufted Titmouse | Lincoln's Sparrow |
| Cory's Shearwater | American Woodcock | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Swamp Sparrow |
| Greater Shearwater | Wilson's Phalarope | White-breasted Nuthatch | White-throated Sparrow |
| Sooty Shearwater | Black-legged Kittiwake | Brown Creeper | White-crowned Sparrow |
| Manx Shearwater | Bonaparte's Gull | Carolina Wren | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Black-headed Gull | House Wren | Lapland Longspur |
| Northern Gannet | Laughing Gull | Winter Wren | Snow Bunting |
| Double-crested Cormorant | Ring-billed Gull | Marsh Wren | Scarlet Tanager |
| Great Cormorant | Herring Gull | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Northern Cardinal |
| American Bittern | Iceland Gull | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Least Bittern | Glaucous Gull | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Indigo Bunting |
| Great Blue Heron | Great Black-backed Gull | Veery | Bobolink |
| Great Egret | Least Tern | Swainson's Thrush | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Snowy Egret | Roseate Tern | Hermit Thrush | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Little Blue Heron | Common Tern | Wood Thrush | Rusty Blackbird |
| Tricolored Heron | Black Skimmer | American Robin | Common Grackle |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | Razorbill | Gray Catbird | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Black Guillemot | Northern Mockingbird | Orchard Oriole |
| Glossy Ibis | Rock Pigeon | Sage Thrasher | Baltimore Oriole |
| Black Vulture | Mourning Dove | Brown Thrasher | Purple Finch |
| Turkey Vulture | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | European Starling | House Finch |
| Osprey | Black-billed Cuckoo | American Pipit | American Goldfinch |
| Bald Eagle | Great Horned Owl | Bohemian Waxwing | House Sparrow |
| Northern Harrier | Snowy Owl | Cedar Waxwing | |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | Long-eared Owl | Blue-winged Warbler | |
| Cooper's Hawk | Short-eared Owl | Tennessee Warbler |