Category: Broadleaf Ecoregions

As a lonely speck in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, the Dry Tortugas are a godsend to tired northbound spring bird migrants, crossing from South America. These famed islands are one of the extremities of the United States – a few tiny coral islands in the Gulf, about 90 km west of Key West,… Continue reading Magnificent Frigate Pelicans of the South Florida Rocklands

France and I were just in Cape May, NJ, looking for a particularly colorful strain of Jersey Boys. My first ecoregion birding blog was from this same area of the Northeastern Coastal Forests Ecoregion (NA0411), which extends the entire length of the New Jersey coast. That was in the spring; this time was a frigid winter day. We… Continue reading Jersey Boys in Cape May

The New England-Acadian Forests Ecoregion (NA0410) (see the link for a map and a short description) covers an enormous area extending from southern Québec and the Maritimes south through Maine to Connecticut. It represents a transition from northern and colder coniferous ecoregions to warmer more deciduous areas to the south. France and I spent the Labor Day… Continue reading New England-Acadian Forests Ecoregion: the Birds and the Bees and Bon Anniversaire!

When Thomas Jefferson was building his beloved Monticello home near Charlottesville, Virginia in the late 1700s, in the Southeastern Mixed Forests Ecoregion (NA0413), he perhaps did not think of his environs in quite those terms. We were still 250 years out from the concept itself of an ecoregion and even well before the founding of ecology as… Continue reading Thomas Jefferson’s ecoregion: Southeastern Mixed Forests

Welcome to our blog France and I have launched a plan to visit each of the 109 terrestrial ecoregions of North America (see the overall map of North American ecoregions on the About page). Sixty have already been visited and birded, so 49 to go – this will take quite a few years… In this… Continue reading Launching the Blog