X-Nico

2 unusual facts about deserts and xeric shrublands


Buff-bellied Hummingbird

It prefers pine-oak forests, semi-arid scrub and thickets along watercourses.

Penner River

The upper basin was formerly covered by tropical dry forest, thorn forest, and xeric shrublands.


Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests

To the east, the xeric Tehuacan Valley matorral occupies the Tehuacan valley to the northwest, the Jalisco dry forests occupy the upper basin of the Santo Domingo River, which lies in the rain shadow of the Sierra, and the Southern Pacific dry forests lie to the south along the Pacific coast, extending into the upper basin of the Tehuantepec River and the Valley of Oaxaca.


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