{"id":226,"date":"2014-07-16T00:40:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/?page_id=226"},"modified":"2014-07-25T20:25:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T20:25:11","slug":"0815-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/grasslandsdrylands\/0815-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Short Grasslands (NA0815)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This large extensive ecoregion extends eastward from the Rocky Mountains in the western US, transitioning in the east into the ecoregions of the Great Plains.\u00a0 Starting from the north, it occupies a tiny sliver in South Dakota and then extends through the western fifth of Nebraska, the southeastern corner of Wyoming, the eastern half of Colorado, the most westerly parts of Kansas and Oklahoma, easterly New Mexico, and northwestern Texas.<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0815.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-566\" src=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0815.jpg\" alt=\"NA0815\" width=\"397\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0815.jpg 397w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0815-154x300.jpg 154w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/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 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;\">Floyd, Ted, 2014. <em>ABA Guide to Birds of Colorado<\/em>. Although a state-oriented book, this guide is very useful for the part of this ecoregion that falls in CO.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This large extensive ecoregion extends eastward from the Rocky Mountains in the western US, transitioning in the east into the ecoregions of the Great Plains.\u00a0 Starting from the north, it occupies a tiny sliver in South Dakota and then extends through the western fifth of Nebraska, the southeastern corner of Wyoming, the eastern half of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/grasslandsdrylands\/0815-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Western Short Grasslands (NA0815)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":85,"menu_order":5815,"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\/226"}],"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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/226\/revisions\/972"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}