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 249 species on the list, with 247 on Plum Island.
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Field Sparrow |
| Snow Goose | Pectoral Sandpiper | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Fox Sparrow |
| Brant | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | American Tree Sparrow |
| Canada Goose | Short-billed Dowitcher | Northern Flicker | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Mute Swan | Long-billed Dowitcher | American Kestrel | White-crowned Sparrow |
| Wood Duck | American Woodcock | Merlin | White-throated Sparrow |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spotted Sandpiper | Peregrine Falcon | Seaside Sparrow |
| Northern Shoveler | Solitary Sandpiper | Great Crested Flycatcher | Nelson's Sparrow |
| Gadwall | Lesser Yellowlegs | Eastern Kingbird | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Willet | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Savannah Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Greater Yellowlegs | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Song Sparrow |
| Mallard | Wilson's Phalarope | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Lincoln's Sparrow |
| American Black Duck | Parasitic Jaeger | Alder Flycatcher | Swamp Sparrow |
| Northern Pintail | Dovekie | Willow Flycatcher | Eastern Towhee |
| Green-winged Teal | Razorbill | Least Flycatcher | Bobolink |
| Redhead | Black Guillemot | Eastern Phoebe | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Ring-necked Duck | Bonaparte's Gull | White-eyed Vireo | Orchard Oriole |
| Greater Scaup | Laughing Gull | Yellow-throated Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| Lesser Scaup | Ring-billed Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Common Eider | Herring Gull | Philadelphia Vireo | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Surf Scoter | Iceland Gull | Warbling Vireo | Rusty Blackbird |
| White-winged Scoter | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Common Grackle |
| Black Scoter | Glaucous Gull | Blue Jay | Ovenbird |
| Long-tailed Duck | Great Black-backed Gull | American Crow | Northern Waterthrush |
| Bufflehead | Least Tern | Fish Crow | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Common Goldeneye | Caspian Tern | Common Raven | Tennessee Warbler |
| Hooded Merganser | Roseate Tern | Black-capped Chickadee | Nashville Warbler |
| Common Merganser | Common Tern | Tufted Titmouse | Mourning Warbler |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Arctic Tern | Horned Lark | Common Yellowthroat |
| Ruddy Duck | Forster's Tern | Bank Swallow | Hooded Warbler |
| Wild Turkey | Red-throated Loon | Tree Swallow | American Redstart |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Common Loon | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Cape May Warbler |
| Horned Grebe | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Purple Martin | Cerulean Warbler |
| Red-necked Grebe | Cory's Shearwater | Barn Swallow | Northern Parula |
| Rock Pigeon | Sooty Shearwater | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Magnolia Warbler |
| Mourning Dove | Great Shearwater | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Northern Gannet | Cedar Waxwing | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Great Cormorant | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Yellow Warbler |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | Double-crested Cormorant | White-breasted Nuthatch | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Chimney Swift | American Bittern | Brown Creeper | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Least Bittern | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| King Rail | Great Blue Heron | House Wren | Palm Warbler |
| Clapper Rail | Great Egret | Winter Wren | Pine Warbler |
| Virginia Rail | Snowy Egret | Marsh Wren | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Sora | Little Blue Heron | Carolina Wren | Prairie Warbler |
| American Coot | Tricolored Heron | Gray Catbird | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| American Oystercatcher | Green Heron | Brown Thrasher | Canada Warbler |
| Black-bellied Plover | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Northern Mockingbird | Wilson's Warbler |
| American Golden-Plover | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | European Starling | Scarlet Tanager |
| Killdeer | Glossy Ibis | Veery | Northern Cardinal |
| Semipalmated Plover | Turkey Vulture | Swainson's Thrush | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Piping Plover | Osprey | Hermit Thrush | Blue Grosbeak |
| Whimbrel | Northern Harrier | Wood Thrush | Indigo Bunting |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Sharp-shinned Hawk | American Robin | Dickcissel |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Cooper's Hawk | House Sparrow | |
| Red Knot | Bald Eagle | American Pipit | |
| Ruff | Red-shouldered Hawk | House Finch | |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Broad-winged Hawk | Purple Finch | |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Red-tailed Hawk | Red Crossbill | |
| Sanderling | Rough-legged Hawk | Pine Siskin | |
| Dunlin | Eastern Screech-Owl | American Goldfinch | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Great Horned Owl | Snow Bunting | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Barred Owl | Lark Sparrow | |
| Least Sandpiper | Short-eared Owl | Chipping Sparrow | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Belted Kingfisher | Clay-colored Sparrow |