{"id":128,"date":"2014-07-15T23:47:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T23:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/?page_id=128"},"modified":"2014-07-25T21:54:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T21:54:28","slug":"0415-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/broadleafs\/0415-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Midwest Forest-Savanna Transition Zone (NA0415)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-507\" src=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0415-1024x704.jpg\" alt=\"NA0415\" width=\"625\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0415-1024x704.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0415-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0415-624x429.jpg 624w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0415.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Description of the\u00a0Ecoregion<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A detailed description of the\u00a0ecoregion\u00a0can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\/science\/wildfinder\/\">WWF&#8217;s site<\/a>\u00a0(the map\u00a0above\u00a0is a screen shot from\u00a0that Wildfinder site). There may also be additional information\u00a0to\u00a0be found in this ecoregion&#8217;s page at Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Briefly, the ecoregion is characterized by&#8230; [under construction]<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Birds of the Ecoregion<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The avifauna of the ecoregion&#8230; [under construction].<br \/>\n<br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although no bird species are endemic to this ecoregion, the following are noteworthy as being\u00a0quite\u00a0characteristic of the ecoregion and relatively difficult to see in other ecoregions:<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[list under construction]<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Resources for the Ecoregion Birder<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Without any pretense to completeness, the following resources have caught my attention and would be of value to the birder traveling to this ecoregion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\">Chartier, Allen and Ziarno, Jerry<\/span>, 2010. <em>ABA Birdfinding Guide: a Birder&#8217;s Guide to Michigan<\/em>. This would presumably be a very helpful guide to the MI part of the ecoregion.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/broadleafs\/0415-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Upper Midwest Forest-Savanna Transition Zone (NA0415)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":81,"menu_order":3415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128\/revisions\/990"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}