Birding spots · Massachusetts

Best Birding Spots in Nantucket County, Massachusetts

Madaket Conservation Area leads Nantucket County's birding spots with 175 species reported, best in spring. 60 spots in the county have enough data to rank.

Species counts are birds reported at least three times in that season at that spot, 2016–2025. Busy spots list more species simply because more people look, so compare the checklist counts. Spot names come from public map data and hotspot listings.

Spot	Species	Checklists	Winter	Spring	Summer	Fall
Madaket Conservation Area	175	1,071	93	133	57	118
Jackson Point	166	627	65	98	73	139
Tuckernuck Island	162	160	55	75	98	118
Sesachacha Pond	156	829	94	65	83	121
Hummock Pond	134	528	79	63	58	109
Milestone Cranberry Bog	132	356	55	88	60	78
Long Pond Conservation Area	126	451	70	69	51	92
Miacomet Pond	119	417	79	74	36	77
UMass Field Station	115	672	63	69	67	85
Burnell Street Conservation Area	115	171	63	74	30	72
North Head Long Pond	114	288	58	78	30	67
Low Beach	109	365	65	44	40	82
Eel Point	109	360	37	73	79	74
Massachusetts Audubon Society	106	240	28	56	81	68
Long Pond (Little Neck)	104	199	50	54	48	71
Great Neck	103	209	41	74	41	65
Sesachacha Heathlands Wildlife Sanctuary	99	143	42	45	37	58
Poverty Point	94	226	44	58	60	59
Esther Island	93	162	16	52	73	64
Clean Shore	88	152	37	53	60	40
Nantucket Island Land Bank	87	257	43	42	24	66
Miacomet Pond Trail	85	238	62	56	35	58
Windswept Cranberry Bog	85	238	38	55	50	46
Brant Point	85	230	57	44	33	32
Coskata Pond	84	104	28	50	52	26
Lily Pond (historical)	82	367	41	46	37	68
Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge	82	98	32	25	60	20
Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge (The Glades)	81	62	21	24	52	34
Powers/Alence Property	80	132	32	32	5	58
UMass Field Station (Folgers Marsh)	75	266	38	44	49	42
Jetties Beach	75	133	28	25	38	44
Clean Shore (Goose Pond)	75	113	37	27	44	39
Sesachacha Pond (Hoicks Hollow)	74	237	35	35	33	53
Squam Swamp	74	162	20	42	32	48
Capaum Pond Conservation Area	74	104	44	37	19	45
Goose Pond (Clean Shore)	70	101	30	32	40	23
Larrabee Swamp	69	87	33	31	9	47
Cisco	69	50	34	2	16	41
Rotten Pumpkin Pond	67	172	25	24	22	61
Sanford Farm	66	90	34	38	37	35
North Head Long Pond (The Gut)	66	89	49	27	8	31
Codfish Park	65	208	34	33	23	35
Tom Nevers Field	64	101	32	23	32	34
Ram Pasture	64	97	7	21	39	37
Quaise Pastures	62	110	24	38	40	39
Linda Loring Nature Foundation	57	125	18	30	36	31
Middle Moors	55	123	9	36	34	23
The Creeks	53	77	9	37	33	31
Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge	52	63	21	23	28	15
White Goose Cove	52	60	19	13	30	6