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Birding Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana

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Louisiana is known for a lot of things. It’s that coastline, however, that called me to Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge, an oasis drawing migrating waterfowl like a magnet. Louisiana, I do so love you for your birding opportunities!

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Big Whoop, Indeed: Whooping Cranes in Louisiana!

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For the first time in 75 years, a pair has successfully nested in Louisiana , producing not one but two fuzzy, wild-born chicks. Louisiana’s last wild Whoopers disappeared just after World War II. Photo by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Warning: cute baby alert!).

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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Oil washes ashore at Venice, Louisiana. Oil begins to wash up on the beaches throughout May and June of 2010 May 6, 2010 Oil washes ashore on the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast, an important nesting and breeding area for many bird species. May 19, 2010 Oil washes ashore on mainland Louisiana.

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Whooping Crane Ancestry

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In 1938, they were reduced to only 18 birds in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock and only 11 remaining in the non-migratory Louisiana flock. By 1950, the Louisiana flock was gone. I contacted Marty Folk from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and asked him if he had any clues.

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The Whistling Ducks of Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge

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On a sandbar in the center of the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, hundreds of ducks swirled around each other or lay down to take cover against the punishing wind. Have time along the Texas-Louisiana coast? I recommend stopping in as many of the wildlife refuges as possible. I couldn’t believe it.

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Saving Pelican 895

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The April 2010 Gulf oil spill was obviously devastating to the region’s wildlife. However, oiled birds would have suffered even more were it not for the relief workers attending to as many as they could.

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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Baby Boom … in Great Britain?

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First, wildlife officials in Louisiana announced the first successful wild Whooping Crane nest in that state since 1939. It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! Now, it’s Spoon-billed Sandpipers’ turn.

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