Central British Columbia Mountain Forests (NA0509)

This ecoregion, exclusively in British Columbia covers central parts of the Rocky Mountains to the east ofthe Fraser Plateau. It extends from the Stikine Ranges east to the Hart Ranges east of Prince George.


NA0509

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 on 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:

  • Cannings, Russell and Richard Cannings, 2013. Bird finding in British Columbia. Greystone Books (see review at http://blog.aba.org/2014/07/birding-british-columbia.html). This guide should have good information on the BC portion of the ecoregion.

 

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