As its name implies, this ecoregion is a broad zone of transition between the Western Great Lakes Forests to the north and grassland ecoregions to the south. Starting in central Minnesota (including the Minneapolis/St. Paul urban area), it extends eastward to southern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa, extreme northern Illinois, and a small part of northern Michigan.
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:
- Chartier, Allen and Ziarno, Jerry, 2010. ABA Birdfinding Guide: a Birder’s Guide to Michigan. This would presumably be a very helpful guide to the MI part of the ecoregion.