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. Birds in red are Plum Island life birds. There are 224 species on the list, with 224 on Plum Island.
| Snow Goose | Long-billed Dowitcher | American Kestrel | American Tree Sparrow |
| Brant | American Woodcock | Merlin | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Canada Goose | Wilson's Snipe | Peregrine Falcon | White-throated Sparrow |
| Mute Swan | Spotted Sandpiper | Great Crested Flycatcher | Seaside Sparrow |
| Wood Duck | Solitary Sandpiper | Eastern Kingbird | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| Blue-winged Teal | Lesser Yellowlegs | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Savannah Sparrow |
| Northern Shoveler | Willet | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Song Sparrow |
| Gadwall | Greater Yellowlegs | Alder Flycatcher | Swamp Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Wilson's Phalarope | Willow Flycatcher | Eastern Towhee |
| Mallard | Red-necked Phalarope | Least Flycatcher | Bobolink |
| American Black Duck | Thick-billed Murre | Eastern Phoebe | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Northern Pintail | Razorbill | White-eyed Vireo | Orchard Oriole |
| Green-winged Teal | Black Guillemot | Yellow-throated Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| Ring-necked Duck | Bonaparte's Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Greater Scaup | Laughing Gull | Philadelphia Vireo | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Lesser Scaup | Ring-billed Gull | Warbling Vireo | Common Grackle |
| Common Eider | Herring Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Ovenbird |
| Surf Scoter | Great Black-backed Gull | Blue Jay | Northern Waterthrush |
| White-winged Scoter | Least Tern | American Crow | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Black Scoter | Black Tern | Fish Crow | Tennessee Warbler |
| Long-tailed Duck | Roseate Tern | Common Raven | Nashville Warbler |
| Bufflehead | Common Tern | Black-capped Chickadee | Mourning Warbler |
| Common Goldeneye | Forster's Tern | Tufted Titmouse | Common Yellowthroat |
| Hooded Merganser | Royal Tern | Horned Lark | American Redstart |
| Common Merganser | Black Skimmer | Bank Swallow | Northern Parula |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Red-throated Loon | Tree Swallow | Magnolia Warbler |
| Wild Turkey | Common Loon | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Purple Martin | Yellow Warbler |
| Horned Grebe | Northern Gannet | Barn Swallow | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Red-necked Grebe | Great Cormorant | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Rock Pigeon | Double-crested Cormorant | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Mourning Dove | American Bittern | Bohemian Waxwing | Palm Warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Least Bittern | Cedar Waxwing | Pine Warbler |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Great Blue Heron | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Chimney Swift | Great Egret | White-breasted Nuthatch | Prairie Warbler |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Snowy Egret | Brown Creeper | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| King Rail | Little Blue Heron | House Wren | Canada Warbler |
| Clapper Rail | Tricolored Heron | Winter Wren | Wilson's Warbler |
| Virginia Rail | Green Heron | Marsh Wren | Scarlet Tanager |
| Sora | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Carolina Wren | Northern Cardinal |
| American Oystercatcher | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Gray Catbird | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Black-bellied Plover | Glossy Ibis | Brown Thrasher | Blue Grosbeak |
| American Golden-Plover | White-faced Ibis | Northern Mockingbird | Indigo Bunting |
| Killdeer | Black Vulture | European Starling | Dickcissel |
| Semipalmated Plover | Turkey Vulture | Veery | |
| Piping Plover | Osprey | Swainson's Thrush | |
| Whimbrel | Northern Harrier | Hermit Thrush | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Wood Thrush | |
| Red Knot | Cooper's Hawk | American Robin | |
| Ruff | Bald Eagle | House Sparrow | |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Red-shouldered Hawk | American Pipit | |
| Sanderling | Red-tailed Hawk | House Finch | |
| Dunlin | Rough-legged Hawk | Purple Finch | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Snowy Owl | American Goldfinch | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Short-eared Owl | Lapland Longspur | |
| Least Sandpiper | Belted Kingfisher | Snow Bunting | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Lark Sparrow | |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | Chipping Sparrow | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | Field Sparrow | |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Northern Flicker | Fox Sparrow |