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South Dakota wildlife

445 species in the South Dakota dex: 134 Common, 157 Uncommon, 133 Rare, 21 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.

#012 🦌 Ord's kangaroo rat

#030 🦌 Fringed Myotis

#070 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#082 🐦 Greylag Goose

#091 🐦 Black-chinned Hummingbird

#121 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#130 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#134 🐦 Red Knot

#185 🐦 Yellow Rail

#198 🐦 Little blue heron

#227 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#229 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#240 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#282 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#307 🐦 Whimbrel

#368 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#376 🐦 Thick-billed Longspur

#384 🐦 Calliope Hummingbird

#387 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#395 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#499 🦎 Western Foxsnake

Rare

133

#001 🦌 North American Hoary Bat

#006 🦌 Wolf

#009 🦌 North American Least Shrew

#018 🦌 Plains pocket gopher

#019 🦌 Northern Flying Squirrel

#021 🦌 White-tailed Jackrabbit

#027 🦌 Meadow vole

#028 🦌 Ermine

#035 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#037 🦌 North American Deermouse

#038 🦌 Franklin's Ground Squirrel

#041 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#042 🦌 Eastern Mole

#044 🦌 Cinereus Shrew

#050 🦌 Mountain Cottontail

#055 🦌 Northern pocket gopher

#063 🐦 Clark's Grebe

#065 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#073 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#074 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#080 🐦 American Black Duck

#086 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#087 🐦 Sprague's Pipit

#089 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#095 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#102 🐦 Greater scaup

#107 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#108 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#118 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#126 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#131 🐦 Sanderling

#143 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#145 🐦 Anna's Hummingbird

#148 🐦 Canada Warbler

#153 🐦 Veery

#154 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#155 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#158 🐦 Sage Grouse

#159 🐦 Baird's Sparrow

#160 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#174 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#176 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#178 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#180 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#184 🐦 Common Raven

#190 🐦 Tundra Swan

#191 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#196 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#202 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#204 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#214 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#226 🐦 Pacific Loon

#230 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#233 🐦 Whooping Crane

#235 🐦 Pinyon Jay

#236 🐦 Cassin's Finch

#241 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#242 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#245 🐦 Little Gull

#252 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#253 🐦 Varied Thrush

#257 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#260 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#262 🐦 Iceland Gull

#263 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#264 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#269 🐦 Virginia's Warbler

#273 🐦 Gray-crowned Rosy-finch

#274 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#280 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#289 🐦 Black Scoter

#290 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#291 🐦 Surf Scoter

#298 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#304 🐦 Clark's Nutcracker

#309 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#311 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#312 🐦 Sage Thrasher

#319 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow · introduced

#329 🐦 Grey Partridge · introduced

#334 🐦 Neotropic cormorant

#335 🐦 Common Poorwill

#337 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#343 🐦 Black-backed Woodpecker

#344 🐦 American Three-toed Woodpecker

#345 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#351 🐦 Summer Tanager

#355 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#356 🐦 American Golden Plover

#357 🐦 Grey Plover

#359 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#369 🐦 Great-tailed Grackle

#378 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#382 🐦 American Woodcock

#385 🐦 Broad-tailed Hummingbird

#386 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#388 🐦 Northern Parula

#390 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#391 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#393 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#397 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#402 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#404 🐦 Pine Warbler

#407 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#409 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#416 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#422 🐦 Lesser Goldfinch

#425 🐦 Brewer's Sparrow

#434 🐦 Common Tern

#435 🐦 Arctic Tern

#438 🐦 Barred owl

#439 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#445 🐦 Carolina Wren

#452 🐦 Winter Wren

#453 🐦 Pacific Wren

#460 🐦 Cassin's Kingbird

#461 🐦 American Barn Owl

#462 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#463 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#468 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#470 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#474 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#475 🐦 White-winged Dove

#478 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow

#482 🐸 Western Tiger Salamander

#485 🐸 Canadian Toad

#488 🦎 Six-lined Racerunner

#494 🦎 Western Hognose Snake

#498 🦎 Smooth Green Snake

#500 🦎 Greater Short-horned Lizard

#502 🦎 Northern Prairie Skink

#504 🐸 Plains Spadefoot

#505 🦎 Redbelly Snake

Uncommon

157

#003 🦌 American bison

#004 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#008 🦌 Red deer

#013 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#014 🦌 Ass · introduced

#015 🦌 Horse · introduced

#016 🦌 North American porcupine

#017 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#022 🦌 North American River Otter

#024 🦌 Yellow-bellied Marmot

#025 🦌 Woodchuck

#026 🦌 Striped Skunk

#033 🦌 Muskrat

#034 🦌 Mountain Goat

#040 🦌 Cougar

#048 🦌 Desert Cottontail

#054 🦌 American Badger

#056 🦌 Richardson's Ground Squirrel

#057 🦌 American Black Bear

#058 🦌 Red Fox

#059 🐦 Common Redpoll

#061 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#064 🐦 Western Grebe

#066 🐦 White-throated Swift

#081 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#085 🐦 Ross's Goose

#090 🐦 Golden Eagle

#092 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#096 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#098 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#103 🐦 Canvasback

#109 🐦 American Bittern

#112 🐦 Cackling Goose

#113 🐦 Snowy Owl

#115 🐦 Cattle Egret

#122 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#123 🐦 Ferruginous hawk

#124 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#125 🐦 Green Heron

#127 🐦 Lark Bunting

#128 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#129 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur

#132 🐦 Dunlin

#133 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#136 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#137 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#139 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#140 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#142 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#149 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#157 🐦 Canyon Wren

#161 🐦 Brown Creeper

#162 🐦 Chimney Swift

#163 🐦 Piping Plover

#164 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#166 🐦 Black Tern

#169 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#170 🐦 American Dipper

#172 🐦 Marsh Wren

#173 🐦 Sedge Wren

#175 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#182 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#189 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#199 🐦 Snowy egret

#203 🐦 Western Flycatcher

#207 🐦 Dusky Flycatcher

#208 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#212 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#215 🐦 Merlin

#216 🐦 Prairie Falcon

#217 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#221 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#225 🐦 Common Loon

#231 🐦 MacGillivray's Warbler

#234 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#238 🐦 Purple Finch

#246 🐦 Caspian Tern

#247 🐦 Wood Thrush

#248 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#249 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#255 🐦 Northern Shrike

#256 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#258 🐦 California Gull

#265 🐦 American Herring Gull

#266 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#267 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#268 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#275 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#276 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#277 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#278 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#285 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#288 🐦 Lewis's Woodpecker

#293 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#294 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#297 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#299 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#301 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#302 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#305 🐦 Long-billed Curlew

#310 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#317 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#320 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#321 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#322 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#323 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#325 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#330 🐦 Gray Jay

#340 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#347 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#349 🐦 Western Tanager

#350 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#353 🐦 Snow Bunting

#354 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#358 🐦 Horned Grebe

#360 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#364 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#366 🐦 Sora

#367 🐦 Purple Martin

#371 🐦 Virginia Rail

#372 🐦 American Avocet

#374 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#377 🐦 Sand Martin

#379 🐦 Rock Wren

#380 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#381 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#383 🐦 Ovenbird

#398 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#401 🐦 Palm Warbler

#406 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#411 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#414 🐦 Pygmy Nuthatch

#418 🐦 Red-naped Sapsucker

#420 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#430 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#433 🐦 Forster's Tern

#436 🐦 Least Tern

#448 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#449 🐦 Willet

#450 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#455 🐦 Greater Prairie Chicken

#456 🐦 Sharp-tailed Grouse

#464 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#466 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#471 🐦 Plumbeous Vireo

#472 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#479 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#481 🐸 Blanchard's Cricket Frog

#484 🐸 Great Plains Toad

#486 🐸 Woodhouse's Toad

#487 🦎 Spiny softshell turtle

#491 🦎 Eastern Racer

#492 🦎 Prairie Rattlesnake

#493 🐸 Cope's Gray Treefrog

#503 🐸 Boreal Chorus Frog

#506 🦎 Ornate Box Turtle

#507 🦎 Western Terrestrial Garter Snake

Common

134

#002 🦌 Pronghorn

#005 🦌 Coyote

#007 🦌 American beaver

#010 🦌 Black-tailed Prairie Dog

#011 🦌 Virginia opossum

#020 🦌 Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel

#023 🦌 Bobcat

#031 🦌 Mule deer

#032 🦌 White-tailed deer

#036 🦌 Bighorn sheep

#039 🦌 Raccoon

#043 🦌 Fox Squirrel

#049 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#051 🦌 Least Chipmunk

#052 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#053 🦌 Red Squirrel

#062 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#067 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#069 🐦 Wood Duck

#072 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#075 🐦 Northern Pintail

#077 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#079 🐦 Mallard

#083 🐦 Snow Goose

#093 🐦 Great Egret

#094 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#099 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#100 🐦 Redhead

#101 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#105 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#106 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#111 🐦 Canada goose

#114 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#116 🐦 Bufflehead

#117 🐦 Common goldeneye

#119 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#120 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#150 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#151 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#156 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#165 🐦 Killdeer

#167 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#168 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#171 🐦 Hen Harrier

#177 🐦 Northern Flicker

#179 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#181 🐦 Western wood-pewee

#183 🐦 American Crow

#186 🐦 Blue Jay

#194 🐦 Bobolink

#195 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#197 🐦 Gray Catbird

#206 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#210 🐦 Horned Lark

#213 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#218 🐦 American Kestrel

#220 🐦 American Coot

#232 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#237 🐦 House Finch

#239 🐦 Bald Eagle

#243 🐦 Barn Swallow

#250 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#251 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#254 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#259 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#270 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#272 🐦 Franklin's gull

#279 🐦 Red Crossbill

#281 🐦 American Wigeon

#283 🐦 Gadwall

#284 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#286 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#287 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#292 🐦 Wild Turkey

#295 🐦 Song Sparrow

#296 🐦 Goosander

#300 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#313 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#315 🐦 Osprey

#318 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#327 🐦 American White Pelican

#331 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#333 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#338 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#339 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#341 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#342 🐦 Black-billed Magpie

#348 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#361 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#362 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#365 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#370 🐦 Common Grackle

#373 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#394 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#403 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#405 🐦 American Redstart

#410 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#412 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#413 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#415 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#417 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#421 🐦 Pine Siskin

#423 🐦 American Goldfinch

#424 🐦 Dickcissel

#426 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#427 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#428 🐦 Field Sparrow

#429 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#437 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#440 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#441 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#442 🐦 Tree Swallow

#443 🐦 Violet-green Swallow

#446 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#447 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#451 🐦 House Wren

#454 🐦 American Robin

#458 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#459 🐦 Western Kingbird

#467 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#469 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#473 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#476 🐦 Mourning Dove

#477 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#480 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#483 🐸 American Toad

#489 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#490 🦎 Painted Turtle

#495 🐸 American Bullfrog

#496 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#497 🐸 Wood Frog

#501 🦎 Gopher Snake

#508 🦎 Plains Garter Snake

#509 🦎 Common Garter Snake

Vagrants

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

#029 🦌 Black-footed Ferret

#045 🦌 Prairie Shrew

#046 🦌 American Pygmy Shrew

#047 🦌 Plains Spotted Skunk

#060 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#068 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#071 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#076 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#078 🐦 Mottled Duck

#084 🐦 Swan Goose

#088 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#097 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#104 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#110 🐦 Brent Goose

#135 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#138 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#141 🐦 Ruff

#144 🐦 Gambel's Quail

#146 🐦 Costa's Hummingbird

#147 🐦 Southern Caracara

#152 🐦 Orange-billed Nightingale-thrush · introduced

#187 🐦 Steller's Jay

#188 🐦 Black swan

#192 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#193 🐦 Fulvous Whistling Duck

#200 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#201 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#205 🐦 Hammond's Flycatcher

#209 🐦 Grey Flycatcher

#211 🐦 Magnificent Hummingbird

#219 🐦 Brambling

#222 🐦 Common Moorhen

#223 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#224 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#228 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#244 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#261 🐦 Glaucous-winged gull

#271 🐦 Laughing Gull

#303 🐦 Painted Whitestart

#306 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#308 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#314 🐦 Ivory Gull

#316 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#324 🐦 Painted Bunting

#326 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#328 🐦 Brown Pelican

#332 🐦 Cassin's Sparrow

#336 🐦 Red Phalarope

#346 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#352 🐦 Great Kiskadee

#363 🐦 Mountain Chickadee

#375 🐦 Ross's Gull

#389 🐦 Audubon's Warbler

#392 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#396 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#399 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#400 🐦 Hermit Warbler

#408 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#419 🐦 Red-breasted Sapsucker

#431 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#432 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#444 🐦 Bewick's Wren

#457 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#465 🐦 Cassin's Vireo