This site was developed by Suraj Mahat, Web Developer for Information Technology Services at Dakota State University, under the direction of Brent Van Aartsen, Director of Technical Operations and Development for Information Technology Services at Dakota State University, and Dr. Jeffrey S. Palmer, Professor of Mathematics at Dakota State University. This project was funded in part by federal funding through State Wildlife Grant T-69-R-1, Study 2480, administered through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and provided by the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks. Species comments adapted from Birds of South Dakota (2002. Tallman, Swanson, and Palmer) and used with permission from the South Dakota Ornithologists’ Union. The site is hosted by Dakota State University.