This ecoregion covers the Sierra Nevada Mountains, which are almost entirely contained within California (except for a sliver of area in Nevada, west of Reno).
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:
- Beedy, Edward C., Edward R. Pandolfino, and Keith Hansen, 2013. Birds of the Sierra Nevada: their Natural History, Status, and Distribution. See review in American Birding May/June 2014. This book would seem to be a rare example of a reference book dedicated to the birds of a single ecoregion.