#0201 · 🦊 mammals
American Black Bear
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Zwarte Beer ·Ursus americanus
📍 Hoonah-Angoon, AK, USA
📍 Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States
📍 North Carolina, US
📍 Monkton Ridge, Monkton, VT 05473, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Craig K. Hunt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Susan Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Scott Marnoy · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Sherry Kirkvold · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Valerie · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Hoonah-Angoon, AK, USA:© thausler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States:© Patrick Coin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. North Carolina, US:© tom ward · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. Monkton Ridge, Monkton, VT 05473, USA:© colettepaul · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The American black bear ( Ursus americanus ) is a medium-sized bear native to North America.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 97,811 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1780 (246 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- American Black Bear
- Nederlands
- Amerikaanse Zwarte Beer
- scientific name
- Ursus americanus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Carnivora
- family
- Ursidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 97,811
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1780 by Peter Simon Pallas
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Ursidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 41638, Wikidata Q122783, GBIF 2433407, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.