Lewis’s Woodpecker

Jul 20 1805

Lewis: July 20, 1805

...er is again closed in by the Mouts. on both sides. I saw a black woodpecker today about the size of the lark woodpecker as black as a crow. I indevoured to get a shoot at it ...

Aug 2 1805

Clark: August 2, 1805

...ng Ducks as we have also Seen everry Day, Some geese I saw Black woodpeckersI have either got my foot bitten by Some poisonous insect or a turner is riseing on the inner bone...

Aug 2 1805

Lewis: August 2, 1805

...d the redheaded fishing duck, gees, several rattle snakes, black woodpeckers, and a large gang of Elk; they found the river much crouded with island both large and small and ...

Aug 22 1805

Lewis: August 22, 1805

...on the sides of all the mountains. I saw today a speceis of woodpecker, which fed on the seeds of the pine. it's beak and tail were white, it's wings were black, and ev...

Sep 9 1805

Lewis: September 9, 1805

...ers have arrived, one of them brought with him a redheaded woodpecker of the large kind common to the U States. this is the first of the kind I have seen since I left ...

Mar 4 1806

Clark: March 4, 1806

...on the Missouri. The large wood pecker or log cock the lark woodpecker and the common wood pecker with a red head are the Same with those of the Atlantic States, and ar...

Mar 4 1806

Lewis: March 4, 1806

...e with those formerly discribed on the Missouri. the large woodpecker or log cock, the lark woodpeckers and the small white woodpecker with a read head are the same wi...

Mar 24 1806

Lewis: March 24, 1806

...we breakfasted and set out at 1/2 after 9 A.M. Saw a white woodpecker with a red head of the small kind common to the United States; this bird has but lately returned. ...

Apr 5 1806

Lewis: April 5, 1806

...iameter. we saw the martin, small gees, the small speckled woodpecker with a white back, the Blue crested Corvus, ravens, crows, eagles Vultures and hawks. the mellow b...

May 27 1806

Clark: May 27, 1806

...d 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 these birds. the beak is black, one i...

May 27 1806

Lewis: May 27, 1806

... of these animals with the heads feet and legs entire. The Black woodpecker which I have frequently mentioned and which is found in most parts of the roky Mountains as well ...

Jun 12 1806

Bitterroot crossing attempt, turned back by snow — Patrick Gass: June 12, 1806

...e we came to this camp. The magpie is also plenty here, and woodpeckers of a different kind from any I had before seen. They are about the size of a common red-headed woo...

Jun 15 1806

Lewis: June 15, 1806

...ds in Virginia about the S. W. mountains. Saw the speckled woodpecker, bee martin and log cock or large woodpecker. found the nest of a humming bird, it had just began ...

Jul 1 1806

Lewis: July 1, 1806

...leeced and exposed in the sun on pole to dry. the dove the black woodpecker, the lark woodpecker, the logcock, the prarie lark, sandhill crain, prarie hen with the short and...

Jul 6 1806

Lewis: July 6, 1806

...ve a large pasel of horses. saw some Curloos, bee martains woodpeckers plover robins, doves, ravens, hawks and a variety of sparrows common to the plains also some duck...