Tom’s 2021 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

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Tom’s 2021 Massachusetts and Plum Island Bird Lists

Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2021. All birds on the list were seen in Massachusetts. Birds in boldface were also seen on Plum Island. Birds in pink are life birds. There are 250 species on the list, with 246 on Plum Island, and 1 life bird.

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

October 12, 2021, Tom Wetmore