When Thomas Jefferson was building his beloved Monticello home near Charlottesville, Virginia in the late 1700s, in the Southeastern Mixed Forests Ecoregion (NA0413), he perhaps did not think of his environs in quite those terms. We were still 250 years out from the concept itself of an ecoregion and even well before the founding of ecology as… Continue reading Thomas Jefferson’s ecoregion: Southeastern Mixed Forests
Author: douglasjgraham
Buffalo birds in the Northern Mixed Grasslands Ecoregion
While having our breakfast, at Phil and Connie’s place near Pincher Creek, Alberta, we also feasted on the magnificent view from their balcony. We saw a juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird, Rufous and Calliope Hummingbirds, lots of White-crowned Sparrows, a male Wilson’s Warbler and other delightful birds of the area. France and I were visiting the Calgary area in mid-August… Continue reading Buffalo birds in the Northern Mixed Grasslands Ecoregion
Launching the Blog
Welcome to my ecoregion blogs I have launched a vague plan to visit each of the 109 terrestrial ecoregions of North America (see the overall map of North American ecoregions on the About page). Sixty have already been visited and birded, so 49 to go – this will take quite a few years… In this… Continue reading Launching the Blog