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. There are 87 species on the list, with 82 on Plum Island.
| Snow Goose | Common Loon | Mourning Dove | Savannah Sparrow |
| Canada Goose | Horned Grebe | Great Horned Owl | Song Sparrow |
| Mute Swan | Red-necked Grebe | Snowy Owl | White-throated Sparrow |
| Gadwall | Northern Gannet | Long-eared Owl | Dark-eyed Junco |
| American Wigeon | Great Cormorant | Short-eared Owl | Lapland Longspur |
| American Black Duck | Bald Eagle | Downy Woodpecker | Snow Bunting |
| Mallard | Northern Harrier | Hairy Woodpecker | Northern Cardinal |
| Northern Pintail | Cooper's Hawk | Northern Shrike | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Green-winged Teal | Red-tailed Hawk | Blue Jay | Common Grackle |
| Greater Scaup | Rough-legged Hawk | American Crow | House Finch |
| Lesser Scaup | American Kestrel | Common Raven | American Goldfinch |
| King Eider | Merlin | Horned Lark | House Sparrow |
| Common Eider | Peregrine Falcon | Black-capped Chickadee | |
| Surf Scoter | Sanderling | Tufted Titmouse | |
| White-winged Scoter | Purple Sandpiper | Red-breasted Nuthatch | |
| Black Scoter | Dunlin | Brown Creeper | |
| Long-tailed Duck | Black-legged Kittiwake | Hermit Thrush | |
| Bufflehead | Black-headed Gull | American Robin | |
| Common Goldeneye | Ring-billed Gull | Northern Mockingbird | |
| Barrow's Goldeneye | Herring Gull | Sage Thrasher | |
| Hooded Merganser | Iceland Gull | European Starling | |
| Common Merganser | Glaucous Gull | Bohemian Waxwing | |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Great Black-backed Gull | Cedar Waxwing | |
| Wild Turkey | Razorbill | Yellow-rumped Warbler | |
| Red-throated Loon | Rock Pigeon | American Tree Sparrow |