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460 species in the Montana dex: 135 Common, 165 Uncommon, 138 Rare, 22 Legendary. Tiers come from how often people record each species here; Legendary ones and protected species are never shown at their real location.

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Legendary

The rarest finds here: 150 points each. Their locations are always protected.

#018 🦌 Northern Flying Squirrel

#030 🦌 Olympic Marmot

#032 🦌 Pacific Marten

#071 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#087 🐦 Black-Throated Sparrow

#097 🐦 Swan Goose

#110 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#139 🐦 Green Heron

#168 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#193 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#242 🐦 Brambling

#274 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#353 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#376 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#418 🐦 Audubon's Warbler

#466 🐦 Arctic Tern

#470 🐦 Great Grey Owl

#494 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#498 🐦 American Barn Owl

#505 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#515 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow

#524 🐸 Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog

Rare

138

#001 🦌 North American Hoary Bat

#004 🦌 Pallid Bat

#012 🦌 Townsend's Big-eared Bat

#014 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#019 🦌 Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel

#020 🦌 Silver-haired Bat

#021 🦌 Red Bat

#024 🦌 White-tailed Jackrabbit

#026 🦌 Canadian Lynx

#031 🦌 American Marten

#035 🦌 Ermine

#036 🦌 Southern Red-backed Vole

#037 🦌 Little Brown Myotis

#038 🦌 Red-tailed Chipmunk

#039 🦌 Bushy-tailed Woodrat

#045 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#050 🦌 Reindeer

#053 🦌 Cinereus Shrew

#058 🦌 Uinta Chipmunk

#064 🦌 Wyoming Ground Squirrel

#076 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#077 🐦 Boreal Owl

#082 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#085 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#086 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#094 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#095 🐦 Greylag Goose

#098 🐦 Ross's Goose

#104 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#105 🐦 Great Egret

#107 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#108 🐦 Sagebrush Sparrow

#122 🐦 American Bittern

#127 🐦 Snowy Owl

#129 🐦 Cattle Egret

#136 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#146 🐦 Sanderling

#147 🐦 Dunlin

#149 🐦 Red Knot

#151 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#154 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#158 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#162 🐦 Anna's Hummingbird

#166 🐦 Canada Warbler

#172 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#178 🐦 Chimney Swift

#180 🐦 Piping Plover

#191 🐦 Sedge Wren

#192 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#194 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#197 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#211 🐦 Whooper Swan

#213 🐦 Black Swift

#220 🐦 Snowy egret

#223 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#225 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#231 🐦 Grey Flycatcher

#234 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#246 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#248 🐦 Pacific Loon

#249 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#250 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#254 🐦 Whooping Crane

#259 🐦 Purple Finch

#264 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#277 🐦 White-tailed Ptarmigan

#280 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#283 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#284 🐦 Glaucous-winged gull

#285 🐦 Iceland Gull

#287 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#294 🐦 Virginia's Warbler

#297 🐦 Black Rosy-finch

#299 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#302 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#307 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#310 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#311 🐦 Western Screech-owl

#313 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#315 🐦 Black Scoter

#316 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#317 🐦 Surf Scoter

#320 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#325 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#326 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#333 🐦 Whimbrel

#349 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#351 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#361 🐦 Common Poorwill

#362 🐦 Red Phalarope

#366 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#369 🐦 Black-backed Woodpecker

#377 🐦 Summer Tanager

#381 🐦 American Golden Plover

#383 🐦 Grey Plover

#390 🐦 Boreal Chickadee

#392 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#395 🐦 Purple Martin

#397 🐦 Flammulated Owl

#398 🐦 Great-tailed Grackle

#409 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#414 🐦 Broad-tailed Hummingbird

#416 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#417 🐦 Northern Parula

#419 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#420 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#425 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#426 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#427 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#428 🐦 Palm Warbler

#429 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#431 🐦 Pine Warbler

#433 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#434 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#436 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#439 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#450 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#454 🐦 Dickcissel

#461 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#462 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#463 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#467 🐦 Least Tern

#471 🐦 Barred owl

#479 🐦 Bewick's Wren

#497 🐦 Cassin's Kingbird

#503 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#507 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#508 🐦 Plumbeous Vireo

#509 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#511 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#512 🐦 White-winged Dove

#518 🐸 Long-toed Salamander

#519 🐸 Western Tiger Salamander

#525 🦎 Northern Rubber Boa

#529 🦎 Northern Alligator Lizard

#534 🦎 Western Skink

#536 🐸 Boreal Chorus Frog

#540 🦎 Plains Garter Snake

Uncommon

165

#005 🦌 American bison

#006 🦌 Domesticated cattle · introduced

#009 🦌 Wolf

#013 🦌 Black-tailed Prairie Dog

#015 🦌 Horse · introduced

#016 🦌 North American porcupine

#017 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#023 🦌 Snowshoe Hare

#025 🦌 North American River Otter

#029 🦌 Yellow-bellied Marmot

#033 🦌 Striped Skunk

#034 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#040 🦌 American Pika

#043 🦌 Muskrat

#047 🦌 North American Deermouse

#049 🦌 Cougar

#054 🦌 Desert Cottontail

#055 🦌 Mountain Cottontail

#056 🦌 Yellow-pine Chipmunk

#057 🦌 Least Chipmunk

#060 🦌 American Badger

#061 🦌 Northern pocket gopher

#062 🦌 Uinta Ground Squirrel

#065 🦌 Richardson's Ground Squirrel

#066 🦌 American Black Bear

#067 🦌 Brown Bear

#070 🐦 Common Redpoll

#072 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#074 🐦 Clark's Grebe

#078 🐦 White-throated Swift

#081 🐦 Wood Duck

#084 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#096 🐦 Snow Goose

#099 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#100 🐦 Sprague's Pipit

#102 🐦 Golden Eagle

#103 🐦 Black-chinned Hummingbird

#109 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#111 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#116 🐦 Greater scaup

#118 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#120 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#121 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#125 🐦 Cackling Goose

#128 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#132 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#137 🐦 Ferruginous hawk

#138 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#141 🐦 Lark Bunting

#142 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#143 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur

#148 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#152 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#155 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#156 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#157 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#159 🐦 California Quail

#164 🐦 Spruce Grouse

#167 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#170 🐦 Veery

#171 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#174 🐦 Canyon Wren

#175 🐦 Sage Grouse

#176 🐦 Baird's Sparrow

#177 🐦 Brown Creeper

#179 🐦 Vaux's Swift

#182 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#184 🐦 Black Tern

#185 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#187 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#188 🐦 American Dipper

#200 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#210 🐦 Tundra Swan

#214 🐦 Dusky Grouse

#215 🐦 Bobolink

#224 🐦 Western Flycatcher

#226 🐦 Hammond's Flycatcher

#227 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#228 🐦 Dusky Flycatcher

#230 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#236 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#237 🐦 Merlin

#238 🐦 Prairie Falcon

#239 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#247 🐦 Common Loon

#253 🐦 Northern Pygmy-owl

#256 🐦 Pinyon Jay

#262 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#266 🐦 Caspian Tern

#268 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#271 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#273 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#275 🐦 Varied Thrush

#278 🐦 Northern Shrike

#279 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#290 🐦 American Herring Gull

#291 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#292 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#293 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#296 🐦 Franklin's gull

#298 🐦 Gray-crowned Rosy-finch

#300 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#301 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#305 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#314 🐦 Lewis's Woodpecker

#321 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#324 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#332 🐦 Long-billed Curlew

#335 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#338 🐦 Sage Thrasher

#343 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#347 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#355 🐦 Grey Partridge · introduced

#356 🐦 Gray Jay

#363 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#364 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#370 🐦 American Three-toed Woodpecker

#371 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#372 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#378 🐦 Snow Bunting

#379 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#384 🐦 Horned Grebe

#385 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#387 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#391 🐦 Chestnut-backed Chickadee

#394 🐦 Sora

#400 🐦 Virginia Rail

#403 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#405 🐦 Thick-billed Longspur

#406 🐦 Sand Martin

#408 🐦 Rock Wren

#410 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#412 🐦 Ovenbird

#415 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#432 🐦 American Redstart

#435 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#438 🐦 Western Bluebird

#443 🐦 Pygmy Nuthatch

#449 🐦 Williamson's Sapsucker

#452 🐦 Lesser Goldfinch

#455 🐦 Brewer's Sparrow

#456 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#458 🐦 Field Sparrow

#459 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#464 🐦 Forster's Tern

#465 🐦 Common Tern

#482 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#483 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#485 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#486 🐦 Willet

#487 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#490 🐦 Pacific Wren

#493 🐦 Sharp-tailed Grouse

#502 🐦 Cassin's Vireo

#506 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#514 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#517 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#521 🐸 Great Plains Toad

#522 🐸 Woodhouse's Toad

#523 🦎 Spiny softshell turtle

#528 🦎 Prairie Rattlesnake

#531 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#532 🦎 Greater Short-horned Lizard

#537 🐸 Columbia Spotted Frog

#538 🦎 Sagebrush Lizard

Common

135

#002 🦌 Moose

#003 🦌 Pronghorn

#007 🦌 Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel

#008 🦌 Coyote

#010 🦌 American beaver

#011 🦌 Red deer

#027 🦌 Bobcat

#028 🦌 Hoary Marmot

#041 🦌 Mule deer

#042 🦌 White-tailed deer

#044 🦌 Mountain Goat

#046 🦌 Bighorn sheep

#048 🦌 Raccoon

#051 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#052 🦌 Fox Squirrel

#059 🦌 Red Squirrel

#063 🦌 Columbian Ground Squirrel

#068 🦌 Red Fox

#073 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#075 🐦 Western Grebe

#079 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#088 🐦 Northern Pintail

#090 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#092 🐦 Mallard

#106 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#112 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#113 🐦 Redhead

#114 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#117 🐦 Canvasback

#119 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#124 🐦 Canada goose

#130 🐦 Bufflehead

#131 🐦 Common goldeneye

#133 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#134 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#169 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#173 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#183 🐦 Killdeer

#186 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#189 🐦 Hen Harrier

#190 🐦 Marsh Wren

#195 🐦 Northern Flicker

#198 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#201 🐦 Western wood-pewee

#204 🐦 American Crow

#205 🐦 Common Raven

#207 🐦 Blue Jay

#208 🐦 Steller's Jay

#209 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#216 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#217 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#218 🐦 Gray Catbird

#232 🐦 Horned Lark

#235 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#241 🐦 American Kestrel

#243 🐦 American Coot

#244 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#251 🐦 MacGillivray's Warbler

#252 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#255 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#257 🐦 Cassin's Finch

#258 🐦 House Finch

#260 🐦 Bald Eagle

#261 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#263 🐦 Barn Swallow

#269 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#276 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#281 🐦 California Gull

#282 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#295 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#303 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#304 🐦 Red Crossbill

#306 🐦 American Wigeon

#308 🐦 Gadwall

#309 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#319 🐦 Wild Turkey

#322 🐦 Song Sparrow

#323 🐦 Goosander

#327 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#328 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#331 🐦 Clark's Nutcracker

#339 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#341 🐦 Osprey

#344 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#346 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#348 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#354 🐦 American White Pelican

#357 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#359 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#365 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#367 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#368 🐦 Black-billed Magpie

#374 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#375 🐦 Western Tanager

#386 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#388 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#389 🐦 Mountain Chickadee

#393 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#399 🐦 Common Grackle

#401 🐦 American Avocet

#402 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#413 🐦 Calliope Hummingbird

#422 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#430 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#437 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#441 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#442 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#444 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#445 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#446 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#448 🐦 Red-naped Sapsucker

#451 🐦 Pine Siskin

#453 🐦 American Goldfinch

#457 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#460 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#468 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#473 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#474 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#477 🐦 Tree Swallow

#478 🐦 Violet-green Swallow

#488 🐦 House Wren

#491 🐦 American Robin

#495 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#496 🐦 Western Kingbird

#504 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#510 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#513 🐦 Mourning Dove

#516 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#520 🐸 Western Toad

#526 🦎 Painted Turtle

#527 🦎 Eastern Racer

#530 🐸 American Bullfrog

#533 🦎 Gopher Snake

#539 🦎 Western Terrestrial Garter Snake

#541 🦎 Common Garter Snake

Vagrants

Rare visitors from elsewhere. Listed, but outside the completion count.

#022 🦌 Sagebrush Vole

#069 🦌 Western Jumping Mouse

#080 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#083 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#089 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#091 🐦 Mexican Duck

#093 🐦 American Black Duck

#101 🐦 California Scrub Jay

#115 🐦 Tufted Duck

#123 🐦 Brent Goose

#126 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#135 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#140 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#144 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#145 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#150 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#153 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#160 🐦 Gambel's Quail

#161 🐦 Scaled Quail

#163 🐦 Costa's Hummingbird

#165 🐦 Southern Caracara

#181 🐦 Mountain Plover

#196 🐦 Green Violetear

#199 🐦 Inca Dove

#202 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#203 🐦 Black Vulture

#206 🐦 Yellow Rail

#212 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#219 🐦 Little blue heron

#221 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#222 🐦 White-tailed Kite

#229 🐦 Cordilleran Flycatcher

#233 🐦 Magnificent Hummingbird

#240 🐦 Gyrfalcon

#245 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#265 🐦 Little Gull

#267 🐦 Wood Thrush

#270 🐦 Hooded Oriole

#272 🐦 Scott's Oriole

#286 🐦 Heermann's Gull

#288 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#289 🐦 Western Gull

#312 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#318 🐦 Stejneger's Scoter

#329 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#330 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#334 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#336 🐦 Cockatiel

#337 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#340 🐦 Ivory Gull

#342 🐦 Harris's Hawk

#345 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow · introduced

#350 🐦 Painted Bunting

#352 🐦 Band-tailed Pigeon

#358 🐦 Cassin's Sparrow

#360 🐦 Neotropic cormorant

#373 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#380 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#382 🐦 Pacific Golden Plover

#396 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#404 🐦 Ross's Gull

#407 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#411 🐦 American Woodcock

#421 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#423 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#424 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#440 🐦 Baikal Teal

#447 🐦 Garganey

#469 🐦 African Collared Dove

#472 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#475 🐦 Northern hawk-owl

#476 🐦 Ancient Murrelet

#480 🐦 Carolina Wren

#481 🐦 Curve-billed Thrasher

#484 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#489 🐦 Winter Wren

#492 🐦 Fieldfare

#499 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#500 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#501 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#535 🐸 Coeur d'Alene Salamander