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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