Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2025. All birds on the list were seen in Massachusetts. Birds in boldface were also seen on Plum Island. Birds in yellow are Massachusetts life birds. Birds in purple are Plum Island life birds. There are 230 species on the list, with 228 on Plum Island, and 1 state life bird.
| Brant | White-rumped Sandpiper | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | American Tree Sparrow |
| Canada Goose | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Mute Swan | Pectoral Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | White-crowned Sparrow |
| Wood Duck | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Northern Flicker | White-throated Sparrow |
| Blue-winged Teal | Short-billed Dowitcher | American Kestrel | Seaside Sparrow |
| Northern Shoveler | Long-billed Dowitcher | Merlin | Nelson's Sparrow |
| Gadwall | American Woodcock | Peregrine Falcon | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Wilson's Snipe | Great Crested Flycatcher | Savannah Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Spotted Sandpiper | Eastern Kingbird | Song Sparrow |
| Mallard | Solitary Sandpiper | Olive-sided Flycatcher | Lincoln's Sparrow |
| American Black Duck | Lesser Yellowlegs | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Swamp Sparrow |
| Northern Pintail | Willet | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Eastern Towhee |
| Green-winged Teal | Greater Yellowlegs | Alder Flycatcher | Yellow-breasted Chat |
| Greater Scaup | Wilson's Phalarope | Willow Flycatcher | Bobolink |
| Lesser Scaup | Razorbill | Least Flycatcher | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Common Eider | Bonaparte's Gull | Eastern Phoebe | Orchard Oriole |
| Surf Scoter | Laughing Gull | White-eyed Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| White-winged Scoter | Ring-billed Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Black Scoter | Herring Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Long-tailed Duck | Iceland Gull | Blue Jay | Common Grackle |
| Bufflehead | Lesser Black-backed Gull | American Crow | Ovenbird |
| Common Goldeneye | Great Black-backed Gull | Fish Crow | Northern Waterthrush |
| Hooded Merganser | Least Tern | Common Raven | Blue-winged Warbler |
| Common Merganser | Roseate Tern | Black-capped Chickadee | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Common Tern | Tufted Titmouse | Tennessee Warbler |
| Ruddy Duck | Arctic Tern | Horned Lark | Nashville Warbler |
| Wild Turkey | Forster's Tern | Bank Swallow | Mourning Warbler |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Black Skimmer | Tree Swallow | Common Yellowthroat |
| Horned Grebe | Red-throated Loon | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | American Redstart |
| Red-necked Grebe | Common Loon | Purple Martin | Cape May Warbler |
| Rock Pigeon | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Barn Swallow | Northern Parula |
| Mourning Dove | Manx Shearwater | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Magnolia Warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Northern Gannet | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Great Cormorant | Cedar Waxwing | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | Double-crested Cormorant | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Yellow Warbler |
| Chimney Swift | American Bittern | White-breasted Nuthatch | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Least Bittern | Brown Creeper | Blackpoll Warbler |
| King Rail | Great Blue Heron | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Clapper Rail | Great Egret | House Wren | Palm Warbler |
| Virginia Rail | Snowy Egret | Winter Wren | Pine Warbler |
| Common Gallinule | Tricolored Heron | Marsh Wren | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| American Coot | Green Heron | Carolina Wren | Prairie Warbler |
| Black-necked Stilt | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Gray Catbird | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| American Oystercatcher | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Brown Thrasher | Canada Warbler |
| Black-bellied Plover | Glossy Ibis | Northern Mockingbird | Wilson's Warbler |
| American Golden-Plover | Black Vulture | European Starling | Scarlet Tanager |
| Killdeer | Turkey Vulture | Veery | Northern Cardinal |
| Semipalmated Plover | Osprey | Gray-cheeked Thrush | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Piping Plover | Northern Harrier | Swainson's Thrush | Indigo Bunting |
| Upland Sandpiper | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Hermit Thrush | Dickcissel |
| Whimbrel | Cooper's Hawk | Wood Thrush | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Bald Eagle | American Robin | |
| Red Knot | Swainson's Hawk | House Sparrow | |
| Ruff | Red-tailed Hawk | House Finch | |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Rough-legged Hawk | Purple Finch | |
| Sanderling | Snowy Owl | American Goldfinch | |
| Dunlin | Barred Owl | Snow Bunting | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Short-eared Owl | Chipping Sparrow | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Belted Kingfisher | Field Sparrow | |
| Least Sandpiper | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Fox Sparrow |