Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2014. All birds on the list were seen in Massachusetts. Birds in boldface were also seen on Plum Island. Birds in yellow are Massachusetts life birds. Birds in purple are Plum Island life birds. There are 251 species on the list, with 244 on Plum Island, and 1 state life bird.
Snow Goose | American Oystercatcher | Eastern Whip-poor-will | Blue-winged Warbler |
Brant | Black-bellied Plover | Chimney Swift | Black-and-white Warbler |
Canada Goose | American Golden-Plover | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Nashville Warbler |
Mute Swan | Semipalmated Plover | Belted Kingfisher | Mourning Warbler |
Wood Duck | Piping Plover | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Common Yellowthroat |
Gadwall | Killdeer | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | American Redstart |
Eurasian Wigeon | Spotted Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | Cape May Warbler |
American Wigeon | Solitary Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | Northern Parula |
American Black Duck | Greater Yellowlegs | Northern Flicker | Magnolia Warbler |
Mallard | Willet | American Kestrel | Bay-breasted Warbler |
Blue-winged Teal | Lesser Yellowlegs | Merlin | Blackburnian Warbler |
Northern Shoveler | Whimbrel | Peregrine Falcon | Yellow Warbler |
Northern Pintail | Hudsonian Godwit | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
Green-winged Teal | Marbled Godwit | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Blackpoll Warbler |
Ring-necked Duck | Ruddy Turnstone | Alder Flycatcher | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
Greater Scaup | Red Knot | Willow Flycatcher | Palm Warbler |
Lesser Scaup | Ruff | Least Flycatcher | Pine Warbler |
King Eider | Stilt Sandpiper | Eastern Phoebe | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Common Eider | Sanderling | Great Crested Flycatcher | Prairie Warbler |
Surf Scoter | Dunlin | Eastern Kingbird | Black-throated Green Warbler |
White-winged Scoter | Purple Sandpiper | Northern Shrike | Canada Warbler |
Black Scoter | Baird's Sandpiper | White-eyed Vireo | Wilson's Warbler |
Long-tailed Duck | Least Sandpiper | Blue-headed Vireo | Eastern Towhee |
Bufflehead | White-rumped Sandpiper | Warbling Vireo | American Tree Sparrow |
Common Goldeneye | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Philadelphia Vireo | Chipping Sparrow |
Hooded Merganser | Pectoral Sandpiper | Red-eyed Vireo | Clay-colored Sparrow |
Common Merganser | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Blue Jay | Field Sparrow |
Red-breasted Merganser | Western Sandpiper | American Crow | Vesper Sparrow |
Ruddy Duck | Short-billed Dowitcher | Fish Crow | Savannah Sparrow |
Wild Turkey | Wilson's Snipe | Common Raven | Grasshopper Sparrow |
Red-throated Loon | American Woodcock | Horned Lark | Nelson's Sparrow |
Common Loon | Wilson's Phalarope | Purple Martin | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
Pied-billed Grebe | Red-necked Phalarope | Tree Swallow | Seaside Sparrow |
Horned Grebe | Pomarine Jaeger | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Fox Sparrow |
Red-necked Grebe | Thick-billed Murre | Bank Swallow | Song Sparrow |
Cory's Shearwater | Razorbill | Cliff Swallow | Lincoln's Sparrow |
Great Shearwater | Black Guillemot | Barn Swallow | Swamp Sparrow |
Sooty Shearwater | Black-legged Kittiwake | Black-capped Chickadee | White-throated Sparrow |
Manx Shearwater | Bonaparte's Gull | Tufted Titmouse | White-crowned Sparrow |
Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Laughing Gull | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Dark-eyed Junco |
Northern Gannet | Ring-billed Gull | White-breasted Nuthatch | Scarlet Tanager |
Double-crested Cormorant | Herring Gull | Brown Creeper | Northern Cardinal |
Great Cormorant | Iceland Gull | House Wren | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
American Bittern | Glaucous Gull | Winter Wren | Bobolink |
Least Bittern | Great Black-backed Gull | Marsh Wren | Red-winged Blackbird |
Great Blue Heron | Least Tern | Carolina Wren | Eastern Meadowlark |
Great Egret | Gull-billed Tern | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Yellow-headed Blackbird |
Snowy Egret | Caspian Tern | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Common Grackle |
Little Blue Heron | Black Tern | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Brown-headed Cowbird |
Green Heron | Roseate Tern | Eastern Bluebird | Orchard Oriole |
Black-crowned Night-Heron | Common Tern | Veery | Baltimore Oriole |
Glossy Ibis | Forster's Tern | Swainson's Thrush | House Finch |
Turkey Vulture | Royal Tern | Hermit Thrush | Purple Finch |
Osprey | Sandwich Tern | Wood Thrush | Pine Siskin |
Bald Eagle | Black Skimmer | American Robin | American Goldfinch |
Northern Harrier | Rock Pigeon | Gray Catbird | House Sparrow |
Sharp-shinned Hawk | Mourning Dove | Brown Thrasher | |
Cooper's Hawk | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Northern Mockingbird | |
Broad-winged Hawk | Black-billed Cuckoo | European Starling | |
Red-tailed Hawk | Eastern Screech-Owl | American Pipit | |
Rough-legged Hawk | Great Horned Owl | Cedar Waxwing | |
Virginia Rail | Snowy Owl | Lapland Longspur | |
Sora | Barred Owl | Snow Bunting | |
American Coot | Short-eared Owl | Ovenbird | |
American Avocet | Common Nighthawk | Northern Waterthrush |