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 227 species on the list, with 226 on Plum Island.
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | Least Sandpiper | Peregrine Falcon | White-crowned Sparrow |
| Snow Goose | White-rumped Sandpiper | Great Crested Flycatcher | White-throated Sparrow |
| Brant | Pectoral Sandpiper | Eastern Kingbird | Seaside Sparrow |
| Canada Goose | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| Mute Swan | Short-billed Dowitcher | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Savannah Sparrow |
| Wood Duck | Long-billed Dowitcher | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Song Sparrow |
| Blue-winged Teal | American Woodcock | Alder Flycatcher | Swamp Sparrow |
| Northern Shoveler | Spotted Sandpiper | Willow Flycatcher | Eastern Towhee |
| Gadwall | Lesser Yellowlegs | Least Flycatcher | Bobolink |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Willet | Eastern Phoebe | Eastern Meadowlark |
| American Wigeon | Greater Yellowlegs | White-eyed Vireo | Orchard Oriole |
| Mallard | Wilson's Phalarope | Yellow-throated Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| American Black Duck | Dovekie | Blue-headed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Northern Pintail | Razorbill | Philadelphia Vireo | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Green-winged Teal | Black Guillemot | Warbling Vireo | Rusty Blackbird |
| Redhead | Bonaparte's Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Common Grackle |
| Ring-necked Duck | Ring-billed Gull | Blue Jay | Ovenbird |
| Greater Scaup | Herring Gull | American Crow | Northern Waterthrush |
| Lesser Scaup | Iceland Gull | Fish Crow | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Common Eider | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Common Raven | Tennessee Warbler |
| Surf Scoter | Glaucous Gull | Black-capped Chickadee | Nashville Warbler |
| White-winged Scoter | Great Black-backed Gull | Tufted Titmouse | Mourning Warbler |
| Black Scoter | Least Tern | Horned Lark | Common Yellowthroat |
| Long-tailed Duck | Roseate Tern | Bank Swallow | Hooded Warbler |
| Bufflehead | Common Tern | Tree Swallow | American Redstart |
| Common Goldeneye | Arctic Tern | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Cape May Warbler |
| Hooded Merganser | Red-throated Loon | Purple Martin | Cerulean Warbler |
| Common Merganser | Common Loon | Barn Swallow | Northern Parula |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Northern Gannet | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Magnolia Warbler |
| Ruddy Duck | Great Cormorant | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Wild Turkey | Double-crested Cormorant | Cedar Waxwing | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Pied-billed Grebe | American Bittern | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Yellow Warbler |
| Horned Grebe | Least Bittern | White-breasted Nuthatch | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Red-necked Grebe | Great Blue Heron | Brown Creeper | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Rock Pigeon | Great Egret | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Mourning Dove | Snowy Egret | House Wren | Palm Warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Little Blue Heron | Winter Wren | Pine Warbler |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Tricolored Heron | Marsh Wren | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | Green Heron | Carolina Wren | Prairie Warbler |
| Chimney Swift | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Gray Catbird | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Brown Thrasher | Canada Warbler |
| King Rail | Glossy Ibis | Northern Mockingbird | Wilson's Warbler |
| Clapper Rail | Turkey Vulture | European Starling | Scarlet Tanager |
| Virginia Rail | Osprey | Veery | Northern Cardinal |
| American Coot | Northern Harrier | Swainson's Thrush | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| American Oystercatcher | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Hermit Thrush | Blue Grosbeak |
| Black-bellied Plover | Cooper's Hawk | Wood Thrush | Indigo Bunting |
| Killdeer | Bald Eagle | American Robin | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Red-tailed Hawk | House Sparrow | |
| Piping Plover | Rough-legged Hawk | House Finch | |
| Whimbrel | Great Horned Owl | Purple Finch | |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Barred Owl | Red Crossbill | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Short-eared Owl | Pine Siskin | |
| Red Knot | Belted Kingfisher | American Goldfinch | |
| Ruff | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Snow Bunting | |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Chipping Sparrow | |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | Field Sparrow | |
| Sanderling | Northern Flicker | Fox Sparrow | |
| Dunlin | American Kestrel | American Tree Sparrow | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Merlin | Dark-eyed Junco |