ENWC418 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cattle Egret, Eastern Phoebe, Emberizidae

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Entomology and Wildlife Conservation
• Course: ENWC418
• Professor: Shriver

Document Summary

Mouse: zoographic realms, nearctic, north america and greenland. Includes boreal forest, deciduous forest, the grasslands, and deserts: canada has the largest connecting forest in the world. Low species richness in north american deciduous forest, forest formed a continuous block (restricting opportunities for speciation: paleartic, europe, african from the north of the sahara, and almost all of asia, ~1,025 species: most are migratory. Largest region and probably where birds originated: 69 families, one endemic (prunellidae, predominant group = family sylviidae, along with the nearctic make up the holoartic region, families endemic to the holarctic include gaviidae, bombycillidae and. 31 endemic families (more than twice that of any other realm: dominating groups include, trochilidae, furnariidae, formicariidae, tyrannidae, afrotropical, africa south of the sahara, southern arabia, and madagascar, ~1550 bird species with the predominant groups including weaverbirds, shrikes. Large proportion of desert, grassland, and savanna habitats and larks: over 70 families of the land and fresh-water birds breed here, but few (~8 in.