{"id":199,"date":"2014-07-16T00:29:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/?page_id=199"},"modified":"2014-08-04T14:57:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T14:57:31","slug":"0802-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/grasslandsdrylands\/0802-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Aspen Forest and Parklands (NA0802)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This huge ecoregion is almost entirely Canadian, with just a tiny extension into the US. It essentially is a broad transition zone between the prairies and the boreal forests to the north; WWF includes it in the Grasslands major habitat type. A disjunct area to the northwest covers the Peace River Valley of Alberta. It intrudes slightly into British Columbia, including the towns of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John.<\/p>\n<p>The largest part of the ecoregion arcs over the prairies extending from central Alberta eastward through central Saskatchewan, through southwestern Manitoba and jutting slightly into North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0802.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-554\" src=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0802.jpg\" alt=\"NA0802\" width=\"652\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0802.jpg 652w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0802-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0802-624x484.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Description of the Ecoregion<\/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>163 spp. (August 1, 2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This huge ecoregion is almost entirely Canadian, with just a tiny extension into the US. It essentially is a broad transition zone between the prairies and the boreal forests to the north; WWF includes it in the Grasslands major habitat type. A disjunct area to the northwest covers the Peace River Valley of Alberta. 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