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 237 species on the list, with 237 on Plum Island.
| Snow Goose | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Red-shouldered Hawk | American Pipit |
| Brant | Pectoral Sandpiper | Red-tailed Hawk | House Finch |
| Canada Goose | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Rough-legged Hawk | Purple Finch |
| Mute Swan | Western Sandpiper | Snowy Owl | Pine Siskin |
| Wood Duck | Short-billed Dowitcher | Short-eared Owl | American Goldfinch |
| Blue-winged Teal | Long-billed Dowitcher | Belted Kingfisher | Lapland Longspur |
| Northern Shoveler | American Woodcock | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Snow Bunting |
| Gadwall | Wilson's Snipe | Downy Woodpecker | Lark Sparrow |
| American Wigeon | Spotted Sandpiper | Hairy Woodpecker | Chipping Sparrow |
| Mallard | Solitary Sandpiper | Northern Flicker | Field Sparrow |
| American Black Duck | Lesser Yellowlegs | American Kestrel | Fox Sparrow |
| Northern Pintail | Willet | Merlin | American Tree Sparrow |
| Green-winged Teal | Greater Yellowlegs | Peregrine Falcon | Dark-eyed Junco |
| Ring-necked Duck | Wilson's Phalarope | Great Crested Flycatcher | White-crowned Sparrow |
| Greater Scaup | Red-necked Phalarope | Eastern Kingbird | White-throated Sparrow |
| Lesser Scaup | Thick-billed Murre | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Seaside Sparrow |
| Common Eider | Razorbill | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Nelson's Sparrow |
| Surf Scoter | Black Guillemot | Alder Flycatcher | Saltmarsh Sparrow |
| White-winged Scoter | Black-legged Kittiwake | Willow Flycatcher | Savannah Sparrow |
| Black Scoter | Bonaparte's Gull | Least Flycatcher | Song Sparrow |
| Long-tailed Duck | Laughing Gull | Eastern Phoebe | Swamp Sparrow |
| Bufflehead | Ring-billed Gull | White-eyed Vireo | Eastern Towhee |
| Common Goldeneye | Herring Gull | Yellow-throated Vireo | Bobolink |
| Hooded Merganser | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Blue-headed Vireo | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Common Merganser | Great Black-backed Gull | Philadelphia Vireo | Orchard Oriole |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Least Tern | Warbling Vireo | Baltimore Oriole |
| Wild Turkey | Black Tern | Red-eyed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Roseate Tern | Blue Jay | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Horned Grebe | Common Tern | American Crow | Common Grackle |
| Red-necked Grebe | Forster's Tern | Fish Crow | Ovenbird |
| Rock Pigeon | Royal Tern | Common Raven | Northern Waterthrush |
| Mourning Dove | Black Skimmer | Black-capped Chickadee | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Red-throated Loon | Tufted Titmouse | Tennessee Warbler |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Common Loon | Horned Lark | Nashville Warbler |
| Common Nighthawk | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Bank Swallow | Mourning Warbler |
| Chimney Swift | Leach's Storm-Petrel | Tree Swallow | Common Yellowthroat |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Cory's Shearwater | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | American Redstart |
| King Rail | Sooty Shearwater | Purple Martin | Northern Parula |
| Clapper Rail | Northern Gannet | Barn Swallow | Magnolia Warbler |
| Virginia Rail | Great Cormorant | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Blackburnian Warbler |
| Sora | Double-crested Cormorant | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Yellow Warbler |
| Common Gallinule | American Bittern | Bohemian Waxwing | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| American Oystercatcher | Least Bittern | Cedar Waxwing | Blackpoll Warbler |
| Black-bellied Plover | Great Blue Heron | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| American Golden-Plover | Great Egret | White-breasted Nuthatch | Palm Warbler |
| Killdeer | Snowy Egret | Brown Creeper | Pine Warbler |
| Semipalmated Plover | Little Blue Heron | House Wren | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Piping Plover | Tricolored Heron | Winter Wren | Prairie Warbler |
| Whimbrel | Green Heron | Marsh Wren | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Black-crowned Night-Heron | Carolina Wren | Canada Warbler |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Gray Catbird | Wilson's Warbler |
| Red Knot | Glossy Ibis | Brown Thrasher | Scarlet Tanager |
| Ruff | White-faced Ibis | Northern Mockingbird | Northern Cardinal |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Black Vulture | European Starling | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Sanderling | Turkey Vulture | Veery | Blue Grosbeak |
| Dunlin | Osprey | Swainson's Thrush | Indigo Bunting |
| Purple Sandpiper | Northern Harrier | Hermit Thrush | Dickcissel |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Wood Thrush | |
| Least Sandpiper | Cooper's Hawk | American Robin | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Bald Eagle | House Sparrow |