BIOL 2903 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hudson Bay Lowlands, Muskeg, Lesser Yellowlegs
5 Mar 2018
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River shores create the habitat for calcium plants, it has layers of trees and shrubs: sparrows eggs lady slipper orchid, shrubs, ninebark, wolf willow, willows: medium sized, in thickets along the shoreline. Birds live along the shoreline in the shrubs and thickets: orange crowned warbler, fox sparrow, pine grosbeak (type of finch) Trees along the shoreline: poplar, pale coloured trees, black spruce. Flowers off of the river, just into the woods: bunchberry: conifers flower plant, found in other forest regions. Conifers forest features: found along the river beds: animals, woodpeckers, black backed woodpecker. Only have 3 toes (all the others have 4: grey jay, loves the rivers, stores food in 10000s of places, spruce grouse, eats spruce needles, snowshoe hare, eats bark off shrubs and spruce needles. Spruce trees provide food: cones, needles, seeds found in the cones, animals that eat the seeds, crossbills.
