Here’s the list of bird species seen by Tom in Massachusetts and on Plum Island in 2026. All birds on the list were seen in Massachusetts. Birds in boldface were also seen on Plum Island. There are 195 species on the list, with 195 on Plum Island.
| Snow Goose | Pectoral Sandpiper | American Kestrel | Snow Bunting |
| Brant | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Merlin | Chipping Sparrow |
| Canada Goose | Short-billed Dowitcher | Peregrine Falcon | Field Sparrow |
| Mute Swan | American Woodcock | Great Crested Flycatcher | Fox Sparrow |
| Wood Duck | Wilson's Snipe | Eastern Kingbird | American Tree Sparrow |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spotted Sandpiper | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Northern Shoveler | Lesser Yellowlegs | Willow Flycatcher | White-throated Sparrow |
| Gadwall | Willet | Least Flycatcher | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Greater Yellowlegs | Eastern Phoebe | Savannah Sparrow |
| Mallard | Wilson's Phalarope | White-eyed Vireo | Song Sparrow |
| American Black Duck | Thick-billed Murre | Yellow-throated Vireo | Swamp Sparrow |
| Northern Pintail | Razorbill | Blue-headed Vireo | Eastern Towhee |
| Green-winged Teal | Bonaparte's Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Bobolink |
| Ring-necked Duck | Laughing Gull | Blue Jay | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Greater Scaup | Ring-billed Gull | American Crow | Orchard Oriole |
| Lesser Scaup | Herring Gull | Fish Crow | Baltimore Oriole |
| Common Eider | Great Black-backed Gull | Common Raven | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Surf Scoter | Least Tern | Black-capped Chickadee | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| White-winged Scoter | Roseate Tern | Tufted Titmouse | Common Grackle |
| Black Scoter | Common Tern | Horned Lark | Ovenbird |
| Long-tailed Duck | Red-throated Loon | Tree Swallow | Northern Waterthrush |
| Bufflehead | Common Loon | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Common Goldeneye | Northern Gannet | Purple Martin | Tennessee Warbler |
| Hooded Merganser | Great Cormorant | Barn Swallow | Nashville Warbler |
| Common Merganser | Double-crested Cormorant | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Common Yellowthroat |
| Red-breasted Merganser | American Bittern | Golden-crowned Kinglet | American Redstart |
| Wild Turkey | Least Bittern | Bohemian Waxwing | Northern Parula |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Great Blue Heron | Cedar Waxwing | Magnolia Warbler |
| Horned Grebe | Great Egret | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Red-necked Grebe | Snowy Egret | White-breasted Nuthatch | Yellow Warbler |
| Rock Pigeon | Little Blue Heron | Brown Creeper | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Mourning Dove | Tricolored Heron | House Wren | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Winter Wren | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Marsh Wren | Palm Warbler |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Glossy Ibis | Carolina Wren | Pine Warbler |
| Clapper Rail | Turkey Vulture | Gray Catbird | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Virginia Rail | Osprey | Brown Thrasher | Prairie Warbler |
| Sora | Northern Harrier | Northern Mockingbird | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| American Oystercatcher | Sharp-shinned Hawk | European Starling | Canada Warbler |
| Black-bellied Plover | Cooper's Hawk | Veery | Wilson's Warbler |
| Killdeer | Bald Eagle | Swainson's Thrush | Scarlet Tanager |
| Semipalmated Plover | Red-tailed Hawk | Hermit Thrush | Northern Cardinal |
| Piping Plover | Rough-legged Hawk | Wood Thrush | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Snowy Owl | American Robin | Blue Grosbeak |
| Ruff | Short-eared Owl | House Sparrow | Indigo Bunting |
| Sanderling | Belted Kingfisher | American Pipit | |
| Dunlin | Red-bellied Woodpecker | House Finch | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | Purple Finch | |
| Least Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | American Goldfinch | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Northern Flicker | Lapland Longspur |