Birding the Southeast

Birding Louisiana? Watch out for brown pelicans! Photo by USFWS

Birding Louisiana’s Legendary Coastal Zone

Southern Louisiana’s vast coastal zone encompasses more than 14.5 million acres of woodlands, grasslands, and water. The soils of the coastal zone average a mind-boggling 20,000 feet in thickness—an enormous sheet of Pleisotocene/Holocene mud resulting from 1 million years’ worth of alluvial outputs of both the Red and Mississippi Rivers. At the very top of […]

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Learn about coastal zone bird habitats. Photo by Ian Shive / USFWS

Understanding Coastal Zone Bird Habitats and Ecology

When asked to characterize Louisiana coastal zone birding opportunities most locals would begin with a mention of “the biomass effect.” The region possesses a fantastic degree of bird diversity—more than 90 percent of Louisiana’s approximately 460 bird species have been recorded within the coastal zone. The most outstanding of the coastal zone’s bird-related phenomena, however,

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