Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2022. All birds on the list were seen in Massachusetts. Birds in boldface were also seen on Plum Island. There are 213 species on the list, with 210 on Plum Island.
Snow Goose | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Peregrine Falcon | Field Sparrow |
Brant | Short-billed Dowitcher | Great Crested Flycatcher | Fox Sparrow |
Canada Goose | American Woodcock | Eastern Kingbird | American Tree Sparrow |
Mute Swan | Wilson's Snipe | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Dark-eyed Junco |
Wood Duck | Spotted Sandpiper | Eastern Wood-Pewee | White-crowned Sparrow |
Blue-winged Teal | Solitary Sandpiper | Acadian Flycatcher | White-throated Sparrow |
Northern Shoveler | Lesser Yellowlegs | Alder Flycatcher | Seaside Sparrow |
Gadwall | Willet | Willow Flycatcher | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
American Wigeon | Greater Yellowlegs | Least Flycatcher | Savannah Sparrow |
Mallard | Wilson's Phalarope | Eastern Phoebe | Song Sparrow |
American Black Duck | Parasitic Jaeger | White-eyed Vireo | Swamp Sparrow |
Northern Pintail | Thick-billed Murre | Yellow-throated Vireo | Eastern Towhee |
Green-winged Teal | Razorbill | Blue-headed Vireo | Bobolink |
Ring-necked Duck | Ring-billed Gull | Warbling Vireo | Eastern Meadowlark |
Greater Scaup | Herring Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Orchard Oriole |
Lesser Scaup | Iceland Gull | Northern Shrike | Baltimore Oriole |
King Eider | Great Black-backed Gull | Blue Jay | Red-winged Blackbird |
Common Eider | Least Tern | American Crow | Brown-headed Cowbird |
Surf Scoter | Roseate Tern | Fish Crow | Rusty Blackbird |
White-winged Scoter | Common Tern | Common Raven | Common Grackle |
Black Scoter | Red-throated Loon | Black-capped Chickadee | Ovenbird |
Long-tailed Duck | Common Loon | Tufted Titmouse | Northern Waterthrush |
Bufflehead | Northern Gannet | Horned Lark | Blue-winged Warbler |
Common Goldeneye | Great Cormorant | Bank Swallow | Black-and-white Warbler |
Hooded Merganser | Double-crested Cormorant | Tree Swallow | Tennessee Warbler |
Common Merganser | American Bittern | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Nashville Warbler |
Red-breasted Merganser | Least Bittern | Purple Martin | Mourning Warbler |
Ruddy Duck | Great Blue Heron | Barn Swallow | Common Yellowthroat |
Wild Turkey | Great Egret | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | American Redstart |
Ring-necked Pheasant | Snowy Egret | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Cape May Warbler |
Pied-billed Grebe | Little Blue Heron | Cedar Waxwing | Northern Parula |
Horned Grebe | Tricolored Heron | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Magnolia Warbler |
Red-necked Grebe | Green Heron | White-breasted Nuthatch | Bay-breasted Warbler |
Rock Pigeon | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Brown Creeper | Blackburnian Warbler |
Mourning Dove | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Yellow Warbler |
Eastern Whip-poor-will | Glossy Ibis | House Wren | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
Chimney Swift | Turkey Vulture | Winter Wren | Blackpoll Warbler |
King Rail | Osprey | Marsh Wren | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
Clapper Rail | Northern Harrier | Carolina Wren | Palm Warbler |
Virginia Rail | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Gray Catbird | Pine Warbler |
American Coot | Cooper's Hawk | Brown Thrasher | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
American Oystercatcher | Bald Eagle | Northern Mockingbird | Prairie Warbler |
Black-bellied Plover | Red-tailed Hawk | European Starling | Black-throated Green Warbler |
American Golden-Plover | Rough-legged Hawk | Swainson's Thrush | Canada Warbler |
Killdeer | Eastern Screech-Owl | Hermit Thrush | Wilson's Warbler |
Semipalmated Plover | Great Horned Owl | Wood Thrush | Scarlet Tanager |
Piping Plover | Snowy Owl | American Robin | Northern Cardinal |
Ruddy Turnstone | Short-eared Owl | House Sparrow | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
Stilt Sandpiper | Belted Kingfisher | House Finch | |
Sanderling | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Purple Finch | |
Dunlin | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | American Goldfinch | |
Purple Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | Lapland Longspur | |
Least Sandpiper | Northern Flicker | Snow Bunting | |
White-rumped Sandpiper | American Kestrel | Chipping Sparrow | |
Pectoral Sandpiper | Merlin | Clay-colored Sparrow |