. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas. Establishing Conservation Priorities Using Endemic Birds A02 ? .A04 A03 AlO. A26l / Figure The Endemic Bird Areas of Central America and the Caribbean (Lack, 1976). with just four restricted-range bird species being shared between the islands and continental America. Nearly every island in the Caribbean is included within, or forms, an EBA. with a total of five in the region (Figure Table ). Each of the EBAs is characterized in part by humid forest and this is reflected by more than two-thirds of the Caribbean restricted-r
. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas. Establishing Conservation Priorities Using Endemic Birds A02 ? .A04 A03 AlO. A26l / Figure The Endemic Bird Areas of Central America and the Caribbean (Lack, 1976). with just four restricted-range bird species being shared between the islands and continental America. Nearly every island in the Caribbean is included within, or forms, an EBA. with a total of five in the region (Figure Table ). Each of the EBAs is characterized in part by humid forest and this is reflected by more than two-thirds of the Caribbean restricted-range species requiring this habitat. Notable single-island EBAs are Jamaica and Puerto Rico, both supporting high numbers of restricted-range species (34. 261 in relation to their size (1 sq. km. 9000 sq. km). The Eastern Caribbean EBA (A26 on Figure ) incorporates 14 political units and many islands from the Virgin Islands south to Table Endemic Bird Areas of Middle America Area code and name Altitude (ni) A02 Guadalupe Island* sea level A03 Baja California A04 Sierra Madre Occidental 1, A05 North-west Mexican Pacific slope A06 Sierra Madre Oriental A07 North-east Mexican Gulf slope 0-1,000 A08 Central Mexican marshes A09 Yucatan Peninsula 0-300 AlO Revillagigedo Islands 0-300 All Central Mexican highlands A12 Sierra Madre del Sur (M A13 Isthmus de Tehuantepec A14 North Mesoamerican highlands A15 North Mesoamerican Pacific slope A16 Central American Caribbean slope A17 Southern Central American Pacific slope A18 Costa Rica and Panama highlands A19 Darien and Uraba lowlands 0-1,000 A20 East Panama and Darien lowlands A21 Cocos Island sea level A22 Cuba and the Bahama Islands A23 Jamaica A24 Hispaniola A25 Puerto Rico A26 Eastern Caribbean 0-1,200 A27 Balsas Drainage 0-1,500 Habitat[s]° mixed mixed forest hu
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