Wildlife
One of the main reasons of the expedition was for the wildlife. During the journey 122 unknown animals and 178 plants unknown to science were discovered. Below is a list of all plants and animals discovered thanks to nationalgeographic.com.
ANIMALS
Ignore Links & words in parentheses are latin names for the animals
List copied from nationalgeographic.com due to the extreme length
ANIMALS
Ignore Links & words in parentheses are latin names for the animals
List copied from nationalgeographic.com due to the extreme length
- Discovered (for the first time by white people):
- Described:
- American Badger (Taxidea taxus)
- Beaver (Castor canadensis)
- Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis auduboni)
- Bison (Bison bison)
- Black Bear (Ursus americanus)
- Columbian Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus columbianus)
- Coyote (Canis latrans)
- Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)
- Eastern Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger)
- Elk (Cervus canadensis)
- Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
- Gray Wolf (Canis lupus or Canis nubilis)
- Long-tailed Weasel (Mustela frenata)
- Muskrat (Fiber zibethicus)
- Mountain Lion (Puma concolor)
- Northern Pocket Gopher (Thomomys talpoides)
- Northern River Otter (Lontra canadensis)
- Northern Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda)
- Pacific-slope Black-tailed Deer
- Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)
- Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
- Richardson's Ground Squirrel or Flickertail (Spermophilus richardsonii)
- Striped Skunk (Mephitis mephitis)
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus)
- White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
- Discovered (for the first time by white people):
- Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia)
- Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana)
- Common Poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii)
- Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)
- Interior Least Tern (Sterna antillarum athalassos)
- Lewis's Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis)
- McCown's Longspur (Calcarius mccownii)
- Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator)
- Described:
- American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana)
- American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)
- American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
- American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)
- American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
- American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
- American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)
- Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
- Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia)
- Belted Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon)
- Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
- Blue Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus)
- Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
- Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus)
- Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater)
- Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
- Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis)
- Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
- Cliff Swallow (Hirundo pyrrhonota or Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)
- Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus columbianus)
- Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor)
- Common Raven (Corvus corax)
- Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)
- Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Greater Prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus)
- Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)
- Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
- Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus)
- Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris)
- Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)
- Lark sparrow (Chondestes grammacus)
- Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)
- Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)
- Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
- Merganser (Mergus serrator)
- Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)
- Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)
- Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus) - tentative
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
- Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)
- Pinyon jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus)
- Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)
- Plains Sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus jamesi)
- Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus)
- Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
- Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
- Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus)
- Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis)
- Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens)
- Sprague's Pipit (Anthus spragueii)
- Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
- Western Juniper Sparrow (')
- Western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta)
- Whip-poor-will (Caprimulgus vociferus)
- Whooping crane (Grus americana)
- Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
- Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus)
- Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)
- Discovered (for the first time by white people):
- Western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis)
- Western hognose snake (Heterodon nasicus)
- Described:
- Discovered (for the first time by white people):
- Described:
- Common Northern Sucker (Catastomus catostomus)
- Sauger (Stizostedion canadensis)
Plants
alder, red
American-aster, aromatic
American-aster, bracted
anemone, Canada
anemone, Piper's
avalanche lily, yellow
balsamroot, arrow-leaf
barley, fox-tail
bearberry, red
beargrass, western
beardtongue, shrub
beardtongue, Wilcox's
beeplant, Rocky Mountain
bistort, American
bitterbrush
bitterroot
bitterroot, Oregon
bitterroot, three-leaf
blanket-flower, great
blueberry, evergreen
blue-eyed Mary, blue-lips
blue grass, Canby's
boxleaf, Oregon
buffalo-berry, silver
bugseed, American
bunchflower, Canadian
camas, small
checker lily, rice-grain
cherry, bitter
cherry, pin
chickweed, strict field mounse-ear
chokecherry, black
chokecherry, western
cinqfoil, hairy Pennsylvania
clamyweed, broad-seeded red-whisker
clover, large-head
clover, small-head
cottonwood, black
cottonwood, plains
cous
cranberry, small
currant, blood
currant, golden
currant, plains golden
currant, sticky
death camas, mountain
desert parsely, cous-root
desert parsely, many-lobed giant
desert parsely, pestle
desert parsely, ternate
desert parsely, Wenatchee
Douglas-fir
elephant's-head, bull
elkweed, clustered
evening primrose, tufted
false buckthorn, Cascara
false hellebore, California
false silverpuffs, Lindley's
fern, deer
fescue, Idaho
fiddleneck, retrose
fire-on-the-mountain
flat-top-goldenrod, low hard-leaf
flax, prairie
fleabane, dwarf mountain
fool's-huckleberry
four-o'clock, hairy
gayfeather, cat-tail
gayfeather, tall
gilia, scarlet
globe-mallow, scarlet
golden-hardtack
gooseberry, coastal black
grass, American dune
grass, June
grass, needle-and-thread
goundsel, silver-wooly
greasewood
gumbo-lily
gumweed, curly-cup
hawthorn, black
honeysuckle, four-line
honeysuckle, orange
honeysuckle, Rocky Mountain
horsetail, field
Indian-breadroot, large
Indian-breadroot, silver-leaf
Indian consumption plant
Indian tobacco
indio, false-bush
iris, Missouri
Jacob's-ladder, beautiful
juniper, American common
juniper, creeping
juniper, Rocky Mountain
kindlingweed
larkspur, Puget Sound
lemonweed, slender-flower
locoweed, Bessey's
lousewort, fern-leaf
lupine, intermountain rusty
lupine, silky
lupine, silver-stem
madrone, Pacific
maple, big-leaf
maple, vine
Mariposa-lily, elegant
matchweed
milk-vetch, Canadian
milk-vetch, loose-leaf
milk-vetch, Missouri
milkwort, white
miner's-lettuce
missonbells, rice-grain
missonbells, yellow
mock orange, Lewis'
monkey-flower, common
monkey-flower, great purple
monkey-flower, Lewis'
monkey-flower, seep
mountain-ash, Cascade
mountain-heath, pink
mountain kitten's-tail, western
mountain-trumet, narrow-leaf
ninebark, Pacific
oak, burr
oak, Oregon white
oceanspray, hillside
old-man's whiskers, ciliated
onion, Geyer's
orchid, western fairy-slipper
Oregon-grape, Cascade
Oregon-grape, creeping
Oregon-grape, holly-leaf
Osage-orange
owl-clover, thin-leaf
pepperbush, heart-leaf
phlox, bush
phlox, showy
pine, Rocky Mountain ponderosa
pinkfaries
popcorn-flower, Pacific
praire-clover, purple
praire-clover, white
rabbitbrush, green
rabbitbrush, rubber
rabbitbrush, smooth rubber
raspberry, salmon
red-cedar, Rocky Mountain
rose, prairie
sage, lance-leaf
sage, silver
sagebrush, broad-leaf white
sagebrush, Coaltown
sagebrush, fringed
sagebrush, prairie
sagewort, prairie
salal
saltbush, four-wing
saltbush, Gardner's
scorpion-weed, thread-leaf
scorpion-weed, variable-leaf
serviceberry, Cascade
shootingstar, poet's
skyrocket, scarlet
silver-berry
silverweed, Pacific
skull-cap, narrow-leaf
small cranberry
snakeweed
snow-on-the-mountain
snowberry, riverbank
snowberry, western
springbeauty, lance-leaf
springbeauty, Siberian
springbeauty, streambank
stonecrop, lance-leaf
stonecrop, worm-leaf
sugarbowls
sumac, ill-scented
suncup, long-leaf
tansy-aster, lacy
tansy-aster, white hoary
tarragon
teatree, Oregon
thimble-berry, western
thimbleweed, round-leaf
thistle, edible
tickseed, Atkinson's
tobacco-bush
toothwort, Nuttall's
triplet-lily, large-flower
turkeybeard, western
wakerobin, purple
wakerobin, western
wallflower, Pursh's
wheatgrass, bluebunch
wild rice, interior
windflower, Piper's
winter fat
wolfberry
wood fern, spinulose
wood fern, toothed
wood lily, western
wooly-sunflower, common
wormwood, dragon
wormwood, long-leaf
yarrow
yellow bells