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Endangered Species in Montana

Endangered and threatened species with a current range in this state

Listed species
17
Endangered
5
Threatened
12

Species are listed under the Endangered Species Act as endangered or threatened, with the counties where the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service records their current range. A county listing means the species is known or believed to occur there, not that it lives at any particular property. Some species protected only by NOAA Fisheries may not be listed.

Mammals (5)

  • Black-footed ferretMustela nigripesWherever found, except where listed as an experimental populationEndangeredListed 03/11/1967 · 3 counties
  • Canada LynxLynx canadensisWherever Found in Contiguous U.S.ThreatenedListed 03/24/2000 · 28 counties
  • Grizzly bearUrsus arctos horribilisU.S.A., conterminous (lower 48) States, except where listed as an experimental populationThreatenedListed 07/28/1975 · 24 counties
  • North American wolverineGulo gulo luscusThreatenedListed 01/02/2024 · 28 counties
  • Northern Long-Eared BatMyotis septentrionalisEndangeredListed 05/04/2015 · 15 counties

Birds (4)

  • Piping PloverCharadrius melodus[Atlantic Coast and Northern Great Plains populations] - Wherever found, except those areas where listed as endangered.ThreatenedListed 12/11/1985 · 13 counties
  • Whooping craneGrus americanaWherever found, except where listed as an experimental populationEndangeredListed 03/11/1967 · 8 counties
  • Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanusWestern DPS: U.S.A. (AZ, CA, CO (western), ID, MT (western), NM (western), NV, OR, TX (western), UT, WA, WY (western)); Canada (British Columbia (southwestern); Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango (western), Sinaloa, Sonora)ThreatenedListed 11/03/2014 · 6 counties
  • rufa red knotCalidris canutus rufaThreatenedListed 01/12/2015 · 6 counties

Fishes (3)

  • Bull TroutSalvelinus confluentusU.S.A., coterminous, (lower 48 states)ThreatenedListed 06/10/1998 · 12 counties
  • Pallid sturgeonScaphirhynchus albusEndangeredListed 09/06/1990 · 28 counties
  • White sturgeonAcipenser transmontanusU.S.A. (ID, MT), Canada (B.C.), (Kootenai R. system)EndangeredListed 09/06/1994 · 1 county

Flowering Plants (2)

Insects (2)

Conifers and Cycads (1)

  • Whitebark pinePinus albicaulisThreatenedListed 01/17/2023 · 32 counties

Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ECOS