{"id":238,"date":"2014-07-16T00:47:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2014-08-01T18:40:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T18:40:44","slug":"1304-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/drylands\/1304-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Plateau Shrublands (NA1304)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This very large ecoregion of the western US is centred on the Colorado Plateau. It extends from southeastern Utah and western Colorado southward to the northern parts of Arizona (including the Grand Canyon) and New Mexico. A tiny sliver extends across the border into Nevada west of Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA1304.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-587\" src=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA1304.jpg\" alt=\"NA1304\" width=\"548\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA1304.jpg 548w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA1304-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Description of the Ecoregion<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">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.\u00a0<\/span><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<p>20 spp. (August 1, 2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This very large ecoregion of the western US is centred on the Colorado Plateau. It extends from southeastern Utah and western Colorado southward to the northern parts of Arizona (including the Grand Canyon) and New Mexico. A tiny sliver extends across the border into Nevada west of Las Vegas. Description of the Ecoregion A detailed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/drylands\/1304-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colorado Plateau Shrublands (NA1304)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":730,"menu_order":5974,"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\/238"}],"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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions\/1059"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}