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=**Trumpeter Swan**=


 * Where & when did Lewis and Clark find it?** - Fort Clatsop, Oreogn; March 9, 1806
 * Journal Entry** -
 * "Capt. Lewis, March 9, 1806**--The Large Swan is precisely the same common to the Atlantic States. the small swan differs from the larger one in size and it's note. it is about one fourth less and it's note is entirely different. the latter cannot be justly immetated by the sound of letters nor do I know any sounds with which a comparison would be pertinent."
 * Information on animal** - Largest water fowl, has wingspan of 3ft, kink at base of neck, v shaped demarcation on foreheadbetween bill and feathes, black legs and feet, 40 inches, 20-30 pounds, lives 12 years in thge wild, male: cob, female: pen, young: cygnet, adults eat 20 pounds of water plants a day, young eat bugs for a month, nest at old muskrat houses, the nest is 6-7 feet in diameter, 2 feet above the water line, lays 3-9 dull white eggs, will incubate them for 5 weeks, fewer than 70 are left,



=**Cougar**=


 * Where & when did Lewis and Clark find it?** - Jefferson River Montana August 3, 1805
 * journal Entry-**
 * "Capt. Clark, August 3, 1805--**a fine morning wind from the NE I walked on Shore & killed a Deer, in my walk I saw a fresh track which I took to be an Indian from the Shape of the foot as the toes turned in, I think it probable that this Indian Spied our fires and Came to a Situation to view us from the top of a Small knob on the Lard. Side. the river more rapid and Sholey than yesterday one man R. F. killed a large //Panther// on the Shore. "
 * Information on animal** - a sup specices is the panther, largest preditory animal, prefer solitary life, they are nocternal, mainly feed on hoofed animals, Adults stand about 60 to 80 cm tall, length of them are 2.4 m, average weight is 53 to 72 kilograms, even though it doesn't like water it can swim, less than 4,000 and 6,000 left,

=**Greater Prairie Chicken**=

~ Clark, talking about the grassland landscape where prairie chickens once thrived"
 * When and where did Lewis and Clark find it?** - Along the Missouri River in 1804
 * Journal Entry** - "//From the top of the highest of those mounds I had an extensive view of the surrounding plains, which afforded one of the most pleasing prospects I ever beheld: under me a beautiful river of clear water about 80-yards wide, meandering through a level and extensive meadow as far as I could see.//


 * Information on animal** - If the females don't do the dance "leks" they won't be able to mate, 14 inches, Medium-sized, stocky, round-winged, chicken-like bird, short rounded dark tail,Buff plumage barred extensively about breast, back, wings and belly with darker bars, yellow-orange comb over eye, less than 459,000 are left

=**Clark's Nutcracker**=

since my arrival here I have killed several birds of the corvus genus of a kind found only in the rocky mountains and their neighbourhood. [it] has a loud squawling note something like the mewing of a cat. the beak of this bird is 1-1/2 inches long, is proportionably large, black and of the form which characterizes this genus. the upper exceeds the under chap [beak; properly, mandible] a little. the head and neck are also proportinably large. the eye full and reather prominent, the iris dark brown and puple black. it is about the size and somewhat the form of the Jaybird tho reather rounder or more full in the body. the tail is four and a half inches in length, composed of 12 feathers nearly the same length."
 * Where & when did Lewis and Clark find it?** - Along Lemhi River, Idaho; August 22, 1805
 * Journal Entry** - "I saw to day [a] Bird of the woodpecker kind which fed on Pine burs it's Bill and tale white the wings black every other part...
 * Information on animal** - Greater songbird, grey everywhere, black wings and tail with few white patches, long stout pointed black beak, 11 to 12 inches long, weighs 106 to 161 g, has a pouch under tongue it uses to carry seeds,

=Greater Sage Grouse=


 * Where & when did Lewis and Clark find it?** - Marias River, Montana; June 5, 1805
 * Journal Entry** -
 * "Capt. Clark, Oct 17, 1805**--sent out Hunters to shute the Prarie Cock, a large fowl which I have seen only on this river, several of which I have killed. they are the size of a small turkey, of the Phesant kind, one I killed on the waters edge to day measured from Beak to the end of the 2 feet 6 and ¾ inches; from the extremities of its wings 3 feet 6 inches; the tail feathers is 13 inches long. they feed on grasshoppers and Seed of the wild plant which is also peculiar to this river and the upper parts of the Missoury somewhat resembling the whins."


 * Information on animal** - lives in the sage brush; less than 1,000 left,Length is 22 inches, Large rounded-winged ground-dwelling chicken-like bird, Long pointed tail,Legs are feathered to base of toes. The male has yellow comb over eye Blackish-brown throat and v-shaped mark on neck separated by white,White breast, Grayish nape, back and upperwings stippled with white, Black belly,Two olive-green air sacs inflated when displaying. The female has Buffy throat with black markings, Lower throat and breast barred with blackish-brown,Gray-brown plumage mottled with white and darker brown, Dark belly

=**Interior Least Tern**=

~ Lewis"
 * Where & when did Lewis and Clark find it?** -
 * Journal Entry** - //"This bird is very noysey when flying which it dose exttreemly swift. … It has two notes one like the squaking of a small pig only to reather a high kee, the other kit’-tee’, -kit’tee’ as near as letters can express the second.//
 * Information on animal** - Build their nests on the sand bars in the Missouri River, " fish flight" this is when the males will wheel around one or two females following while holding fish in it's mouth, They lay about two to three eggs, When a preditor comes too close to their nests they get together and chase the preditor away by making loud noises at the preditor, When the trumpeter swan turns three years old it is ready to fly, Was declared endangered in 1985. only 4,700 to 5,000 adults left 9 inches long; 20 inch wing span;

=Lewis's Woodpecker=


 * Where & when did Lewis and Clark find it?** - North of Helena, Montana; July 20, 1805
 * Journal Entry** - "The Black woodpecker which I have frequently mentioned and which is found in most parts of the roky Mountains as well as the Western and S. W. Mountains, I had never an opportunity of examining untill a few days since when we killed and preserved several of them. This bird is about the size of the lark woodpecker or the turtle dove, tho' it's wings are longer than either of those birds.

The beak is black, one inch long, reather wide at the base, somewhat curved, and sharply pointed; the chaps are of equal length. Around the base of the beak including the eye and a small part of the throat is of a fine crimson red. The neck and as low as the croop in front is of an iron grey. The belly and breast is a curious mixture of white and blood red which has much the appearance of having been artificially painted or stained of that colour. The red reather predominates."


 * Information on animal** - lives in large dead or burned trees, 9 inches, large dark woodpecker, flies with stedy crow-like wingbeats,dark bronze-green, grey collar and upper brest, deep red brest, deep red face pink belly, Lewis's Woodpecker nests in a cavity excavated from a dead tree branch. The nest is constructed mainly by the male. The female will lay between 5 and 9 eggs, which are plain white in coloration. Incubation is done by both sexes -the female sitting during the day and the male sitting at night- and lasts approximately 12 days, after which the young will hatch. The young leave the nest 4 to 5 weeks after hatching,

=**Wolverine**=


 * Where & when did Lewis and Clark find it?** -
 * Journal Entry** - "In returning through the level bottom of Medecine river and about 200 yards distant from the Missouri, my direction led me directly to an anamal that I at first supposed was a wolf. But on nearer approach or about sixty paces distant I discovered that it was not. Its colour was a brownish yellow; it was standing near it's burrow, and when I approached it thus nearly, it couched itself down like a cat looking immediately at me as if it designed to spring on me. I took aim at it and fired. It instantly disappeared in its burrow. I loaded my gun and examined the place, which was dusty, and saw the track from which I am still further convinced that it was of the tiger kind. Whether I struck it or not I could not determine, but I am almost confident that I did. My gun is true, and I had a steady rest by means of my espontoon, which I have found very serviceable to me in this way in the open plains."


 * Information on animal** - Wolverine- member of weasel family, looks like a small bear, gets up to 4 feet, weighs 70 pounds, will eat anything it can catch and carrion and fruit, the teeth can chomp down and shatter bone, each paw has 5 claws, one of the most feared animals in the natural world, even bears are scared of it, has poor eye sight, prefers to hunt at night, sharp sence of smell, has smelly territory mrkings which are as bad as a skunk, native americans called it "the evil one"