We saw many spectacular mammals in both the mountains and the plains.
It was hard to beat the beauty of this male Antelope, whose mate is shown below.
We recorded 60+ bird and 15 mammal species.

Black Bears	another view of the Black Bears	Mammals - Waterton/Glacier: The black bears seen in Waterton had white marks on their chests: "Some specimens may develop a white "crescent moon" mark on the chest. This white mark, which is constant in Asiatic black bears, occurs in only 25% of American black bears" (Wikipedia).	Yellow-Pine Chipmunk (Water'n)	Mountain Goats
Bighorn Sheep	Coyote	In addition to Black Bears, there were Wapiti (ELK), Bighorn Sheep, Mountain Goats, Mule Deer, White-tailed Deer, Chipmunk. The goats were seen in Many Glaciers, USA. The Yellow-Pine Chipmunk was also seen at the Many Glaciers location. The Bighorn Sheep was at Waterton.	Antelope also-female	Richardson's Ground Squirrel
Moose	Nuttall's Cottontail	Other Mammals - open prairie and Cypress Hills: Coyote, Antelope, Richardson's Ground Squirrel, Nuttall's Cottontail, Moose, Red Squirrel, Least Chipmunk, Jack Rabbit;	Least Chipmunk (C. Hills)
Prairie Falcon	Swainson's Hawk Juvenile also, adult	Raptors - open prairie and Cypress Hills: Red-Tailed Hawk, Swainson's Hawk, Prairie Falcon, American Kestrel, Northern Harrier, and Osprey. There seemed to be several colour and age varieties of the RT Hawk and the S Hawk.	Red-tailed Hawk Juvenile also, adult	American Kestrel male also, female
Cooper's Hawk also, another	Canada Geese	Other larger birds: Flickers and Sapsuckers, Gray Jay, Red-necked Grebe, Common Merganser, Canada Geese and Wild Turkey qualify.	Red-shafted Northern Flicker also, another in flight	Gray Jay (Water'n)
Wild Turkey	Red-necked Grebe	We did not record all the duck species we saw. The only shorebirds were a lonely Killdeer and about 20 Wilson's Snipe. There were Kingfishers in C Hills park.	Common Merganser (Water'n)	Killdeer
Wilson's Snipe	Sapsucker also, a juvenile	Also Ring-billed and California Gulls. There were large flocks of blackbirds, mostly Brewer's and European Starlings. The "human" side. Small birds	Ring-billed Gull	Brewer's Blackbird

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