BIOL 2903 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Marbled Godwit, Marsh Wren, Blue Flag Beach
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Lecture 18: natural history -- western area & marshes. Lake superior provincial park: on lake superior many of the same subarctic disjuncts found in the superior boreal. Such as butterwort (needs calcium means some of these rocks have calcium they are volcanic rocks) northern plant. Question: how can you tell that you"re in the superior gl-sl and not in the superior. - one good visual clue is the presence of white pines, yellow birch and. Common merganser and the red-breasted merganser (they can go to salt water as well). They have to run to become airborne as their feet are far back for diving underwater. Agawa bay: in lake superior provincial park has remarkable pictographs (rock paintings horses, canoes, fish, snakes native art). **because of lake superior it has the cooling affect. Western or prairies great lakes st. lawrence region: has the same type of trees (maples and red and white pine).