This ecoregion is constituted by the swampy forests in the river plain of the lower reaches of the mighty Mississippi River. It begins in southern Kentucky and Missouri and follows the river southward through Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, to the delta in Louisiana.
Description of the Ecoregion
A detailed description of the ecoregion can be found at WWF’s site (the map above is a screen shot from that Wildfinder site). There may also be additional information to be found in this ecoregion’s page at Wikipedia.
Briefly, the ecoregion is characterized by… [under construction]
Birds of the Ecoregion
The avifauna of the ecoregion… [under construction].
Although no bird species are endemic to this ecoregion, the following are noteworthy as being quite characteristic of the ecoregion and relatively difficult to see in other ecoregions:
[list under construction]
Resources for the Ecoregion Birder
Without any pretense to completeness, the following resources have caught my attention and would be of value to the birder traveling to this ecoregion:
- Gibbons, Richard, Roger Breedlove, and Charles Lyon, 2013. ABA Birdfinding Guide: a Birder’s Guide to Louisiana. This would presumably be a very helpful guide to the LA part of the ecoregion.
46 spp. (Aug. 1, 2014)