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 210 species on the list, with 210 on Plum Island.
| Snow Goose | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Merlin | Field Sparrow |
| Brant | Short-billed Dowitcher | Peregrine Falcon | Fox Sparrow |
| Canada Goose | American Woodcock | Great Crested Flycatcher | American Tree Sparrow |
| Mute Swan | Wilson's Snipe | Eastern Kingbird | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Wood Duck | Spotted Sandpiper | Eastern Wood-Pewee | White-throated Sparrow |
| Blue-winged Teal | Lesser Yellowlegs | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Seaside Sparrow |
| Northern Shoveler | Willet | Alder Flycatcher | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| Gadwall | Greater Yellowlegs | Willow Flycatcher | Savannah Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Wilson's Phalarope | Least Flycatcher | Song Sparrow |
| Mallard | Red-necked Phalarope | Eastern Phoebe | Swamp Sparrow |
| American Black Duck | Thick-billed Murre | White-eyed Vireo | Eastern Towhee |
| Northern Pintail | Razorbill | Yellow-throated Vireo | Bobolink |
| Green-winged Teal | Bonaparte's Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Ring-necked Duck | Laughing Gull | Warbling Vireo | Orchard Oriole |
| Greater Scaup | Ring-billed Gull | Red-eyed Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| Lesser Scaup | Herring Gull | Blue Jay | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Common Eider | Great Black-backed Gull | American Crow | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Surf Scoter | Least Tern | Fish Crow | Common Grackle |
| White-winged Scoter | Roseate Tern | Common Raven | Ovenbird |
| Black Scoter | Common Tern | Black-capped Chickadee | Northern Waterthrush |
| Long-tailed Duck | Black Skimmer | Tufted Titmouse | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Bufflehead | Red-throated Loon | Horned Lark | Tennessee Warbler |
| Common Goldeneye | Common Loon | Bank Swallow | Nashville Warbler |
| Hooded Merganser | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Tree Swallow | Mourning Warbler |
| Common Merganser | Northern Gannet | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Common Yellowthroat |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Great Cormorant | Purple Martin | American Redstart |
| Wild Turkey | Double-crested Cormorant | Barn Swallow | Northern Parula |
| Pied-billed Grebe | American Bittern | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Magnolia Warbler |
| Horned Grebe | Least Bittern | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Red-necked Grebe | Great Blue Heron | Bohemian Waxwing | Yellow Warbler |
| Rock Pigeon | Great Egret | Cedar Waxwing | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Mourning Dove | Snowy Egret | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Little Blue Heron | White-breasted Nuthatch | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Tricolored Heron | Brown Creeper | Palm Warbler |
| Chimney Swift | Green Heron | House Wren | Pine Warbler |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Winter Wren | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| King Rail | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Marsh Wren | Prairie Warbler |
| Clapper Rail | Glossy Ibis | Carolina Wren | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Virginia Rail | Black Vulture | Gray Catbird | Canada Warbler |
| Sora | Turkey Vulture | Brown Thrasher | Wilson's Warbler |
| American Oystercatcher | Osprey | Northern Mockingbird | Scarlet Tanager |
| Black-bellied Plover | Northern Harrier | European Starling | Northern Cardinal |
| Killdeer | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Veery | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Semipalmated Plover | Cooper's Hawk | Swainson's Thrush | Blue Grosbeak |
| Piping Plover | Bald Eagle | Hermit Thrush | Indigo Bunting |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Red-tailed Hawk | Wood Thrush | |
| Red Knot | Rough-legged Hawk | American Robin | |
| Ruff | Snowy Owl | House Sparrow | |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Short-eared Owl | American Pipit | |
| Sanderling | Belted Kingfisher | House Finch | |
| Dunlin | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Purple Finch | |
| Purple Sandpiper | Downy Woodpecker | American Goldfinch | |
| Least Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | Lapland Longspur | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Northern Flicker | Snow Bunting | |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | American Kestrel | Chipping Sparrow |