LOUISIANA BIRDS
Juvenile COOPER'S HAWK
Recent Photo of Black-throated Green Warbler
First Louisiana record of McCown's Longspur (Nelkin, Reihoehl). Photo by RDP.
Notice: Three new species tentatively added to the state list in the
fall and winter of 1996-97 (all documented):
White Wagtail, Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Clark's Nutcracker. Greem Violet-
ear (451);;
Other recent additions: Red-billed Tropicbird, Cory's Shearwater, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel, Western Gull (?), Varied Bunting, Baird's Sparrow, Mangrove Cuckoo (12/23/06), White-winged Crossbill?
Northern Wheatear at New Orleans (click for larger image and
details)
First year Glaucous Gull on Fourchon Beach. Photo
Phillip Wallace
(I'll try to get the captions on later, but numbers range from 1 to 32;
decades from 1810-1940)
Rock Wren at New Orleans, Dec. 21, 1983-Feb. 4, 1984, first LA record
(Mac Myers). Photo RDP.
Zone-tailed Hawk at New Orleans (click for larger image)
Masked Booby on gulf off South Pass (photo RDP).
Masked Boobies in Aug. 1998 off South
Pass of the Miss. R.(large)
Unusual records of birds in Louisiana should be submitted to
Steve Cardiff and/or Donna Dittmann, LSU Museum of Natural Science,
Foster Hall, Baton Rouge, LA
Records of birds on the LOS Bird Records Committee Review List
should be submitted to Donna Dittmann, secretary of the BRC, preferably
using the BRC reporting form.
Link to
John Sevenair's pictures of birds from recent LOS pelagic trips plus
cetaceans as well. Includes definitive photo of Leach's Storm-
Petrel
Birdfinding Information(pending)
Some Ivory-billed Woodpecker observations
Brown-crested Flycatchers; videos from Ft.
Jackson, 2/27/00
Video clip of hybrid gull at Fourchon, 9/17/00
