Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2019. 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 255 on Plum Island, 1 state life bird, and 2 life birds.
Snow Goose | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Red-bellied Woodpecker | American Tree Sparrow |
Brant | Western Sandpiper | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Dark-eyed Junco |
Canada Goose | Short-billed Dowitcher | Downy Woodpecker | White-crowned Sparrow |
Mute Swan | Long-billed Dowitcher | Hairy Woodpecker | White-throated Sparrow |
Tundra Swan | American Woodcock | Northern Flicker | Vesper Sparrow |
Wood Duck | Wilson's Snipe | American Kestrel | Seaside Sparrow |
Blue-winged Teal | Spotted Sandpiper | Merlin | Nelson's Sparrow |
Northern Shoveler | Solitary Sandpiper | Peregrine Falcon | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
Gadwall | Lesser Yellowlegs | Great Crested Flycatcher | Savannah Sparrow |
Eurasian Wigeon | Willet | Eastern Kingbird | Song Sparrow |
American Wigeon | Greater Yellowlegs | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Lincoln's Sparrow |
Mallard | Wilson's Phalarope | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Swamp Sparrow |
American Black Duck | Parasitic Jaeger | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Eastern Towhee |
Northern Pintail | Thick-billed Murre | Acadian Flycatcher | Yellow-breasted Chat |
Green-winged Teal | Razorbill | Alder Flycatcher | Yellow-headed Blackbird |
Ring-necked Duck | Black Guillemot | Willow Flycatcher | Bobolink |
Greater Scaup | Black-legged Kittiwake | Least Flycatcher | Eastern Meadowlark |
Lesser Scaup | Bonaparte's Gull | Eastern Phoebe | Orchard Oriole |
King Eider | Laughing Gull | Northern Shrike | Baltimore Oriole |
Common Eider | Ring-billed Gull | White-eyed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
Harlequin Duck | Herring Gull | Yellow-throated Vireo | Brown-headed Cowbird |
Surf Scoter | Iceland Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Common Grackle |
White-winged Scoter | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Warbling Vireo | Ovenbird |
Black Scoter | Glaucous Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Worm-eating Warbler |
Long-tailed Duck | Great Black-backed Gull | Blue Jay | Northern Waterthrush |
Bufflehead | Least Tern | American Crow | Black-and-white Warbler |
Common Goldeneye | Gull-billed Tern | Fish Crow | Tennessee Warbler |
Hooded Merganser | Caspian Tern | Common Raven | Nashville Warbler |
Common Merganser | Black Tern | Horned Lark | Mourning Warbler |
Red-breasted Merganser | Roseate Tern | Bank Swallow | Common Yellowthroat |
Ruddy Duck | Common Tern | Tree Swallow | American Redstart |
Wild Turkey | Forster's Tern | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Cape May Warbler |
Pied-billed Grebe | Royal Tern | Purple Martin | Northern Parula |
Horned Grebe | Black Skimmer | Barn Swallow | Magnolia Warbler |
Red-necked Grebe | Red-throated Loon | Cliff Swallow | Bay-breasted Warbler |
Rock Pigeon | Pacific Loon | Black-capped Chickadee | Blackburnian Warbler |
Mourning Dove | Common Loon | Tufted Titmouse | Yellow Warbler |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
Black-billed Cuckoo | Sooty Shearwater | White-breasted Nuthatch | Blackpoll Warbler |
Eastern Whip-poor-will | Manx Shearwater | Brown Creeper | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
Chimney Swift | Northern Gannet | House Wren | Palm Warbler |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Double-crested Cormorant | Winter Wren | Pine Warbler |
Virginia Rail | Great Cormorant | Marsh Wren | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Sora | American Bittern | Carolina Wren | Prairie Warbler |
American Coot | Least Bittern | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Black-throated Green Warbler |
Sandhill Crane | Great Blue Heron | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Canada Warbler |
American Avocet | Great Egret | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Wilson's Warbler |
American Oystercatcher | Little Egret | Townsend's Solitaire | Summer Tanager |
Black-bellied Plover | Snowy Egret | Veery | Scarlet Tanager |
American Golden-Plover | Green Heron | Swainson's Thrush | Northern Cardinal |
Killdeer | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Hermit Thrush | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
Semipalmated Plover | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Wood Thrush | Indigo Bunting |
Piping Plover | Glossy Ibis | American Robin | Dickcissel |
Wilson's Plover | Turkey Vulture | Gray Catbird | |
Whimbrel | Osprey | Brown Thrasher | |
Hudsonian Godwit | Golden Eagle | Northern Mockingbird | |
Marbled Godwit | Northern Harrier | European Starling | |
Ruddy Turnstone | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Cedar Waxwing | |
Red Knot | Cooper's Hawk | House Sparrow | |
Ruff | Bald Eagle | American Pipit | |
Stilt Sandpiper | Red-shouldered Hawk | House Finch | |
Red-necked Stint | Red-tailed Hawk | Purple Finch | |
Sanderling | Rough-legged Hawk | Common Redpoll | |
Dunlin | Eastern Screech-Owl | American Goldfinch | |
Purple Sandpiper | Great Horned Owl | Lapland Longspur | |
Baird's Sandpiper | Snowy Owl | Snow Bunting | |
Least Sandpiper | Barred Owl | Lark Sparrow | |
White-rumped Sandpiper | Short-eared Owl | Chipping Sparrow | |
Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Northern Saw-whet Owl | Field Sparrow | |
Pectoral Sandpiper | Belted Kingfisher | Fox Sparrow |