Tom’s 2010 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

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Tom’s 2010 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

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 263 species on the list, with 251 on Plum Island, 1 state life bird, and 3 life birds.

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

December 11, 2010, Tom Wetmore