{"id":138,"date":"2014-07-15T23:56:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T23:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/?page_id=138"},"modified":"2014-08-04T14:49:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T14:49:19","slug":"0502-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/coniferous\/0502-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta-British Columbia Foothills Forests (NA0502)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ecoregion covers the foothills of the eastern flank of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. There are two large disjunct areas. In the northern chunk, the ecoregion covers the Alberta and BC foothills to the north of the Peace River, to the north of Fort St. John in BC. The southern chunk of the ecoregion covers the foothills of BC south of Dawson Creek and the Alberta foothills to just southwest of Calgary.<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0502.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-511\" src=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0502.jpg\" alt=\"NA0502\" width=\"515\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0502.jpg 515w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0502-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ecoregion covers the foothills of the eastern flank of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. There are two large disjunct areas. In the northern chunk, the ecoregion covers the Alberta and BC foothills to the north of the Peace River, to the north of Fort St. John in BC. 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