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 256 species on the list, with 252 on Plum Island.
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | White-rumped Sandpiper | Barred Owl | Pine Siskin |
| Snow Goose | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Short-eared Owl | American Goldfinch |
| Brant | Pectoral Sandpiper | Belted Kingfisher | Lapland Longspur |
| Canada Goose | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Snow Bunting |
| Mute Swan | Short-billed Dowitcher | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Lark Sparrow |
| Wood Duck | Long-billed Dowitcher | Downy Woodpecker | Chipping Sparrow |
| Blue-winged Teal | American Woodcock | Hairy Woodpecker | Clay-colored Sparrow |
| Northern Shoveler | Spotted Sandpiper | Northern Flicker | Field Sparrow |
| Gadwall | Solitary Sandpiper | American Kestrel | Fox Sparrow |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Lesser Yellowlegs | Merlin | American Tree Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Willet | Peregrine Falcon | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Mallard | Greater Yellowlegs | Great Crested Flycatcher | White-crowned Sparrow |
| American Black Duck | Wilson's Phalarope | Eastern Kingbird | White-throated Sparrow |
| Northern Pintail | Parasitic Jaeger | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Seaside Sparrow |
| Green-winged Teal | Dovekie | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Nelson's Sparrow |
| Redhead | Razorbill | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| Ring-necked Duck | Black Guillemot | Alder Flycatcher | Savannah Sparrow |
| Greater Scaup | Bonaparte's Gull | Willow Flycatcher | Song Sparrow |
| Lesser Scaup | Laughing Gull | Least Flycatcher | Lincoln's Sparrow |
| Common Eider | Ring-billed Gull | Eastern Phoebe | Swamp Sparrow |
| Surf Scoter | Herring Gull | White-eyed Vireo | Eastern Towhee |
| White-winged Scoter | Iceland Gull | Yellow-throated Vireo | Bobolink |
| Black Scoter | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Long-tailed Duck | Glaucous Gull | Philadelphia Vireo | Orchard Oriole |
| Bufflehead | Great Black-backed Gull | Warbling Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| Common Goldeneye | Least Tern | Red-eyed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Hooded Merganser | Caspian Tern | Northern Shrike | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Common Merganser | Roseate Tern | Blue Jay | Rusty Blackbird |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Common Tern | American Crow | Common Grackle |
| Ruddy Duck | Arctic Tern | Fish Crow | Ovenbird |
| Wild Turkey | Forster's Tern | Common Raven | Northern Waterthrush |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | Red-throated Loon | Black-capped Chickadee | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Common Loon | Tufted Titmouse | Tennessee Warbler |
| Horned Grebe | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Horned Lark | Nashville Warbler |
| Red-necked Grebe | Cory's Shearwater | Bank Swallow | Mourning Warbler |
| Rock Pigeon | Sooty Shearwater | Tree Swallow | Common Yellowthroat |
| Mourning Dove | Great Shearwater | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Hooded Warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Northern Gannet | Purple Martin | American Redstart |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Great Cormorant | Barn Swallow | Cape May Warbler |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | Double-crested Cormorant | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Cerulean Warbler |
| Chimney Swift | American Bittern | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Northern Parula |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Least Bittern | Cedar Waxwing | Magnolia Warbler |
| King Rail | Great Blue Heron | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Clapper Rail | Great Egret | White-breasted Nuthatch | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Virginia Rail | Snowy Egret | Brown Creeper | Yellow Warbler |
| Sora | Little Blue Heron | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| American Coot | Tricolored Heron | House Wren | Blackpoll Warbler |
| American Oystercatcher | Green Heron | Winter Wren | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Black-bellied Plover | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Marsh Wren | Palm Warbler |
| American Golden-Plover | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Carolina Wren | Pine Warbler |
| Killdeer | Glossy Ibis | Gray Catbird | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Semipalmated Plover | Turkey Vulture | Brown Thrasher | Prairie Warbler |
| Piping Plover | Osprey | Northern Mockingbird | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Whimbrel | Northern Harrier | European Starling | Canada Warbler |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Veery | Wilson's Warbler |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Cooper's Hawk | Swainson's Thrush | Scarlet Tanager |
| Red Knot | Northern Goshawk | Hermit Thrush | Northern Cardinal |
| Ruff | Bald Eagle | Wood Thrush | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Red-shouldered Hawk | American Robin | Blue Grosbeak |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Broad-winged Hawk | House Sparrow | Indigo Bunting |
| Sanderling | Red-tailed Hawk | American Pipit | Dickcissel |
| Dunlin | Rough-legged Hawk | House Finch | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Eastern Screech-Owl | Purple Finch | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Great Horned Owl | Red Crossbill | |
| Least Sandpiper | Snowy Owl | White-winged Crossbill |