Tom’s 2018 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

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Tom’s 2018 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2018. All birds on the list were seen in Massachusetts. Birds in boldface were also seen on Plum Island. There are 260 species on the list, with 250 on Plum Island.

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

December 28, 2018, Tom Wetmore