This large ecoregion west of Lake Superior extends from extreme southeastern Manitoba and the border areas of northwestern Ontario (including my home town of Thunder Bay) south through northeastern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and 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.
141 spp. (Aug. 1, 2014)