{"id":136,"date":"2014-07-15T23:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T23:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2014-08-04T14:43:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T14:43:29","slug":"0501-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/coniferous\/0501-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Mountain Forests (NA0501)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the name implies, this ecoregion essentially covers the Alberta portion of the Rocky Mountains east of the provincial border, including iconic parks such as Jasper and Banff. At its northern tip however it does extend slightly into British Columbia in the area of Kakwa Provincial Park. The southern tip of the ecoregion is at Mt. Joffre on the provincial border.<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-510\" src=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0501.jpg\" alt=\"NA0501\" width=\"743\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0501.jpg 743w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0501-300x269.jpg 300w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0501-624x560.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><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 on 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=\"color: #000000;\">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.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>9 spp. (Aug. 1, 2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the name implies, this ecoregion essentially covers the Alberta portion of the Rocky Mountains east of the provincial border, including iconic parks such as Jasper and Banff. At its northern tip however it does extend slightly into British Columbia in the area of Kakwa Provincial Park. The southern tip of the ecoregion is at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/coniferous\/0501-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alberta Mountain Forests (NA0501)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":83,"menu_order":4501,"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\/136"}],"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=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/1096"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}