Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2024. All birds on the list were seen in Massachusetts. Birds in boldface were also seen on Plum Island. There are 254 species on the list, with 251 on Plum Island.
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | White-rumped Sandpiper | Belted Kingfisher | Lapland Longspur |
| Snow Goose | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Snow Bunting |
| Brant | Pectoral Sandpiper | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Lark Sparrow |
| Canada Goose | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | Chipping Sparrow |
| Mute Swan | Short-billed Dowitcher | Hairy Woodpecker | Clay-colored Sparrow |
| Wood Duck | Long-billed Dowitcher | Northern Flicker | Field Sparrow |
| Blue-winged Teal | American Woodcock | American Kestrel | Fox Sparrow |
| Northern Shoveler | Spotted Sandpiper | Merlin | American Tree Sparrow |
| Gadwall | Solitary Sandpiper | Peregrine Falcon | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Lesser Yellowlegs | Great Crested Flycatcher | White-crowned Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Willet | Eastern Kingbird | White-throated Sparrow |
| Mallard | Greater Yellowlegs | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Seaside Sparrow |
| American Black Duck | Wilson's Phalarope | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Nelson's Sparrow |
| Northern Pintail | Parasitic Jaeger | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| Green-winged Teal | Dovekie | Alder Flycatcher | Savannah Sparrow |
| Redhead | Razorbill | Willow Flycatcher | Song Sparrow |
| Ring-necked Duck | Black Guillemot | Least Flycatcher | Lincoln's Sparrow |
| Greater Scaup | Bonaparte's Gull | Eastern Phoebe | Swamp Sparrow |
| Lesser Scaup | Laughing Gull | White-eyed Vireo | Eastern Towhee |
| Common Eider | Ring-billed Gull | Yellow-throated Vireo | Bobolink |
| Surf Scoter | Herring Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Eastern Meadowlark |
| White-winged Scoter | Iceland Gull | Philadelphia Vireo | Orchard Oriole |
| Black Scoter | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Warbling Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| Long-tailed Duck | Glaucous Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Bufflehead | Great Black-backed Gull | Northern Shrike | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Common Goldeneye | Least Tern | Blue Jay | Rusty Blackbird |
| Hooded Merganser | Caspian Tern | American Crow | Common Grackle |
| Common Merganser | Roseate Tern | Fish Crow | Ovenbird |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Common Tern | Common Raven | Northern Waterthrush |
| Ruddy Duck | Arctic Tern | Black-capped Chickadee | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Wild Turkey | Forster's Tern | Tufted Titmouse | Tennessee Warbler |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | Red-throated Loon | Horned Lark | Nashville Warbler |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Common Loon | Bank Swallow | Mourning Warbler |
| Horned Grebe | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Tree Swallow | Common Yellowthroat |
| Red-necked Grebe | Cory's Shearwater | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Hooded Warbler |
| Rock Pigeon | Sooty Shearwater | Purple Martin | American Redstart |
| Mourning Dove | Great Shearwater | Barn Swallow | Cape May Warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Northern Gannet | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Cerulean Warbler |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Great Cormorant | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Northern Parula |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | Double-crested Cormorant | Cedar Waxwing | Magnolia Warbler |
| Chimney Swift | American Bittern | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Least Bittern | White-breasted Nuthatch | Blackburnian Warbler |
| King Rail | Great Blue Heron | Brown Creeper | Yellow Warbler |
| Clapper Rail | Great Egret | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Virginia Rail | Snowy Egret | House Wren | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Sora | Little Blue Heron | Winter Wren | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| American Coot | Tricolored Heron | Marsh Wren | Palm Warbler |
| American Oystercatcher | Green Heron | Carolina Wren | Pine Warbler |
| Black-bellied Plover | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Gray Catbird | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| American Golden-Plover | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Brown Thrasher | Prairie Warbler |
| Killdeer | Glossy Ibis | Northern Mockingbird | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Semipalmated Plover | Turkey Vulture | European Starling | Canada Warbler |
| Piping Plover | Osprey | Veery | Wilson's Warbler |
| Whimbrel | Northern Harrier | Swainson's Thrush | Scarlet Tanager |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Hermit Thrush | Northern Cardinal |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Cooper's Hawk | Wood Thrush | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Red Knot | Bald Eagle | American Robin | Blue Grosbeak |
| Ruff | Red-shouldered Hawk | House Sparrow | Indigo Bunting |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Broad-winged Hawk | American Pipit | Dickcissel |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Red-tailed Hawk | House Finch | |
| Sanderling | Rough-legged Hawk | Purple Finch | |
| Dunlin | Eastern Screech-Owl | Red Crossbill | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Great Horned Owl | White-winged Crossbill | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Barred Owl | Pine Siskin | |
| Least Sandpiper | Short-eared Owl | American Goldfinch |