Dana Gardner, Berkeley, California, watercolor artist-illustrator, was born in Wisconsin. When he was seven, a kid with a love of birds and drawing, Dana and his family moved to Lanesboro, Minnesota. He has collaborated with Nancy Overcott on three earlier books, Fifty Common Birds of the Upper Midwest, and Fifty Uncommon Birds of the Upper Midwest (University of Iowa Press, 2006-2007), and an earlier volume, At Home in the Big Woods (Taxon Media, 2002). Dana has illustrated many field guides as well as bird books with other authors.
