Cormorant

Animal · mentioned in 5 journal entries

Planning Westward Fort Clatsop Return Post-expedition NPS L&C NHT trail data © National Park Service
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Also discussed in Coues 1893 (4-vol edition):
2 mentions via 1 variant: cormorant (2)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Matching wildlife/plant records:
Double-crested cormorant (Nannopterum auritum)
Lewis: August 25, 1804
Meriwether Lewis · Aug 25, 1804 · Spirit Mound, South Dakota
"used as size comparison for heron-like bird"
Lewis: January 2, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Jan 2, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, salt works established
"still remain in neighborhood"
Lewis: March 6, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Mar 6, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"aquatic bird listed"
Lewis: March 7, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Mar 7, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"large black duck feeding on fish" — transcribed as cormorant
Lewis: March 24, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Mar 24, 1806 · Departed Fort Clatsop, ascending Columbia River
"few seen today"

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