LOUISIANA BIRDS

THE LOUISIANA WINTER BIRD ATLAS/E-BIRD

Juvenile COOPER'S HAWK

Gray Kingbird on Grand Isle, 27 April 2008 (DPM,RDP; photo RDP)

Additional recent photos from Grand Isle

Black-throated Gray Warbler near Ft. Jackson, 16 Dec. 2008 (RDP).

More Spring 2008 images, plus some from winter 2007-8.

Cave Swallow and other birds from the rice fields to Cameron and vicinity, 10-11 May 2008.

Texas Breeding Bird Atlas

Some photographs of wintering warblers near Ft. Jackson, 12/16/07. RDP

Video of the Mangrove Cuckoo by Phillip Wallace

Photographs by Dave Patton of the Mangrove Cuckoo in Chalmette, 23-24 December 2006, found by Glenn Ousset.

First winter Lesser Black-backed Gull, Fourchon Beach, 24 Feb. 2008 (RDP)

Some so-so photographs of the Fork-tailed Flycatcher at Alliance, Plaquemines Par., LA, 17 and 20 February 2008 (RDP).

Unfinished manuscript of:

BIRDS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: NEW ORLEANS AND VICINITY

Introductory text

Full text(pdf)

Updated 3/3/08. There are many lacunae, missing dates, etc. Help with these will be appreciated. My thanks to Harvey Patten for calling to my attention, and correcting, nearly 100 errors in spelling and scientific nomenclature.

Preliminary Bird List for City Park, New Orleans.Comments welcome.

Recent Photo of Black-throated Green Warbler

Yellow-nosed Albatross at Holly Beach, Cameron Parish, LA, May 9, 1970, Joe Kennedy and Jim McDaniel. Photo by McDaniel.

Gannet over the surf from Fourchon Beach, 24 March 2002. For a much larger version,click here

Some images of Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks in New Orleans' Audubon Park, including banded individual (Jed Diem)

Am. Golden-Plover at Grand Isle, 4 April 2004 (RDP)

For what it's worth, had it been a Pacific Golden-Plover, it would have been much golder in color, have a weak superciliary stripe, shorter tail, and slightly longer legs.

Recent NEXRAD radar image showing birds leaving coastal Mississippi and woods along the Mississippi R. in Louisiana at dusk

A collection of recent photos, mostly, but not entirely by myself

Ash-throated Flycatcher in Johnsons Bayou, 21 October 2006 (RDP). Video capture.

Video of molting adult Baird's Sandpiper on Rutherford Beach, Cameron Parish, 21 Oct. 2006. (3-4 minute download) (bonus adult Lesser black-backed Gull).

Freeze frame from above video of Baird's Sandpiper. Note black legs, fine-tipped bill (see video), very long wings.

Video of Semipalmated Sandpiper at Fourchon Rd, 21 March (?) 2004 by David Muth

Gull Videos from Cameron, 5/12-13/2007

Video of possible first year Thayer's Gull at Holley Beach, 5/12/07

Retarded second year (?) Lesser Black-backed Gull at Holley Beach, 5/12/07.

Video of first year possible Kelp or Kelp-hybrid at East Jetty, 5/13/07.

Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks in New Orleans, Jan. 3, 2006 (14 MB--only a few seconds to load on a T1 connection, up to 10 min to load on DSL).

The Louisiana Breeding Bird Atlas Online

What needs to be said....?

Recent LABIRD postings fron "Birding on the Net

Storm-Petrels, mostly Wilson's, about 40 mi off South Pass, 29 May 2002 (Photo RDP).

Gull Page, with photos by RDP and others. Under construction 10/04

Sage Thrasher W. of Johnsons Bayou, Cameron Parish, 27 October 2001. Found by.....(Photo RDP).

Adult california gull (L.c. albertensis, fide DLD) at Holly Beach, Cameron Par., 25 October 2003

"Whose pocket is it in?" or "Is it time to go to Tom's yet?"

RIP....Tom's met its demise 29 Sept. 2005

Birding Information from Orleans Audubon, including Southeast Louisiana Bird Finding Guide

King Eider at Grand Terre Island....Found by Bob Russell, ID'd by Russell and Muth; first Louisiana record (of 3). Photo RDP

Eider found on N. Breton Is., June 2001 by Ed Creef and others. Photo by Ed Creef. ID by RDP. (the defect appeared in the ftp process and I will try to corrrect it.)

Snowy Owl (3rd-5th LA record), November 2000

Ruff at Grand Isle, 5 August 2001 (MM,RDP,PW--photos RDP).

Photos of Bayou Sauvage Kiskadee (winter 2003-4) by Juelene Alwell.

Results from 2003/4 Venice CBC, 2 Jan 2004.

• 1999-2000 Venice CBC

• Some new images from May/June 1999, and the July 1 log.

  Includes 1st winter/summer Lesser Black-backed Gull, Kelp/Herring hybrid

• Photo album of recent photographs by myself and others, as they accumulate; including Venice Kiskadee and Ash-th Flycatcher from Rutherford Beach.

• Official LOS Homepage with state list, information about LOS Bird Record Committee, includingReview List

• Birding on the (.)Net. Including access to LABIRD postings. Go to "Regional/Specialty"

• Pelagic Birding Page, emphasizing LOS trips, with logs and images, plus links to other pages

  Orleans Audubon Society Home Page, with birdfinding information.

  For those with a continuing interest in Louisiana birds may want to subscribe to the Louisiana bird list LABIRD-L. Send the message "subscribe your name" to labird-l@listserv.sncc.lsu.edu

• Shreveport Bird Study Group Home Page

• Click here for field notes on "Common/Pacific Loon on Fourchon Rd., Lafourche Parish, 3/16/97

  
  

  
  

  First Louisiana record of McCown's Longspur (Nelkin, Reihoehl). Photo by RDP.

  

  Third winter Lesser Black-backed Gull on Fourchon Beach, April 25, 1999. Photo RDP.

• Official Louisiana List (not in new AOU order)

  
  

  Courtesy of Donna Dittmann, Secretary, LOS Bird Records Committee

  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)

  

  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)

  

  First year Glaucous Gull on Fourchon Beach. Photo Phillip Wallace

  
  

  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

  (I'll try to get the captions on later, but numbers range from 1 to 32; decades from 1810-1940)

  Brown-crested Flycatchers; videos from Ft. Jackson, 2/27/00

  Video clip of hybrid gull at Fourchon, 9/17/00