blackbird

Animal · mentioned in 6 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):
4 mentions via 3 variants: blackbird (2) · young blackbirds (1) · large blackbird (1)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Matching wildlife/plant records:
Brewer's blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus)
Lewis: April 14, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Apr 14, 1805 · Missouri River near Little Missouri
"compared to magpie nest style"
Clark: June 15, 1805
William Clark · Jun 15, 1805 · Great Falls of the Missouri
"seen along river" — transcribed as Blackbirds
Lewis: June 25, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Jun 25, 1805 · Great Falls Portage
"young innumerable on islands, beginning to fly" — transcribed as blackbirds
Great Falls Portage — Patrick Gass: June 25, 1805
Patrick Gass · Jun 25, 1805 · Great Falls Portage
"multitudes in the bottoms" — transcribed as blackbirds
Lewis: July 9, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Jul 9, 1805 · Great Falls Portage
"young brude feathered and flying on islands" — transcribed as blackbirds
Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area — Patrick Gass: September 18, 1806
Patrick Gass · Sep 18, 1806 · Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area
"index reference" — transcribed as blackbirds

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