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CALCASIEU PARISHCAMERON PARISH
Lake Charles/Southwest Louisiana Convention & Visitors Bureau
1205 N. Lakeshore Drive Lake Charles, LA 70601
337-436-9588 • 800-456-7952VisitLakeCharles.org/Birds
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For more information, please check out the websites listed below or visit the bureau:
American Avocet Black Skimmer
Crested Caracara
Yellow-crowned Night-HeronWhite-faced Ibis
Sandhill Crane
Eastern Kingbird
Willet
Reddish Egret
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Roseate Spoonbill
Killdeer
Great Blue HeronEastern Towhee
Black Tern Dickcissel
Herring GullGreen Heron
Semipalmated Plover
Tricolored Heron
Belted Kingfisher
Blue-winged Warbler
Neotropic Cormorant
Hooded Warbler
Royal TernRed-tailed Hawk
White-eyed Vireo
Black-bellied Plover
Osprey
Eastern Meadowlark
Laughing Gull
Ruddy Turnstone Sora Rail
Yellow-throated Vireo
Black-necked Stilt
Carolina Wren
Greater Yellowlegs
Least Tern
Vermilion Flycatcher
Swainson’s ThrushSnowy Egret
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In a typical year, more than 400 different species can be spotted in this area, a true birders’ paradise! Southwest Louisiana, including Calcasieu and Cameron parishes, with its prairies, marshes and coastal habitats, attracts many migratory birds from the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Birds can be seen year round; however, fall, winter and spring are the best seasons for birding in Southwest Louisiana.
Rain gear is advisable with the unpredictable Southwest Louisiana weather in the spring and winter months. Since summers can be extremely hot and humid, water, sunscreen and insect repellent are items that should be carried when traversing into Louisiana’s remote areas.
Southwest Louisiana
DNARGEKAL
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COASTAL MARSHES
SWAMP & FORESTED WETLANDS
BIRDING AREAS
Cameron
Holmwood
JenningsWelsh
Holly Beach
LAKECHARLES
W H I T E L A K EG u l f o f M e x i c o10 Miles
10 Kilometers
Cameron Jetties
HackberryCameron PrairieNational Wildlife Refuge
Illinois Plant Road
Lacassine Pool
Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge
Niblett’s Blu� Park
Peveto Woods Migratory Bird Sanctuary
RockefellerWildlife Refuge
Rutherford Beach
Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
171LA 378Sam Houston Jones
State Park
LA 14
LA 26LA 99
LA 14
PR 217P
R 202
PR 201 (Little Chenier Road)
LA 1143Creole
GrandChenier
Creole Hwy.
CALCASIEU PARISH
CAMERON PARISH
1-NIBLEtt’S BLUff PARk• Loblolly pines, riverfront
-HACkBERRy• Some scrub, some open water
-SABINE NAtIONAL WILDLIfE REfUgE• Tidal marshes interspersed with bayous and open water, live oak and mulberry groves• Wetland Walkway (accessible)• Blue Goose Trail
-PEVEtO WOODS MIgRAtORy BIRD SANCtUARy• Coastal woodland, freshwater pool, beach, open gulf
-CAMERON JEttIES • Open gulf, rock jetties, some salt marsh• Cameron Jetties Fishing Pier and observation tower
-RUtHERfORD BEACH• Beaches, open gulf, salt marsh
-CHENIER LOOP• Tidal marshes with bayous, open water and chenier ridges
7-ROCkEfELLER WILDLIfE REfUgE• Extensive brackish marsh, pools, coastal woodlands• Price Lake Road nature drive
2-CAMERON PRAIRIE NAtIONAL WILDLIfE REfUgE• Fresh and brackish marshes with scrub/tree lined uplands• Pintail Wildlife Drive and Boardwalk (accessible)
-LACASSINE NAtIONAL WILDLIfE REfUgE• Fresh and brackish marshes, pools• Lacassine Pool Wildlife Drive
5 -SAM HOUStON JONES StAtE PARk
• Mixed pine-hardwood, bottomland hardwood and cypress tupelo swamp
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Brown Pelican
American Coot
Common Gallinule
Greater White-fronted Goose
Mottled Duck
Pied-billed Grebe Snow Goose
American White Pelican
Blue-winged Teal
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Lesser Scaup
American Wigeon
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Great Birding Spots
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NEOtROPICAL MIgRANtS (such as warblers, vireos and flycatchers) are most often seen in the spring and fall in coastal woodlands.
SHORELINE BIRDS like plovers, willets and terns are typically seen year round on area beaches.
WADINg BIRDS, such as ibises, spoonbills, herons and egrets are seen year round in marshes.
WAtERfOWL are more plentiful in the fall and winter, usually in fields and marshes.
HAWkS AND OSPREyS appear mostly in the fall and winter, soaring or on overhead power lines and poles.
WATERFOWL