The ecoregion mostly covers high-altitude tundra areas of the most northerly western mountains. In Alaska it starts in the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage, and extends eastward in the mountains through Glacier Bay National Park and to the southern extremity of Alaska. It spills over slightly into adjacent areas of British Columbia in the Boundary Ranges. Finally, it also includes a very small southeastern corner of the Yukon Territory in part of Kluane National Park.
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.
10 spp. (August 1, 2014)