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Every neighbor worth knowing in North Louisiana, from the ones that sing to the ones you should absolutely not pick up.

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Frogs ▼

View all Frogs → American Bullfrog Bronze Frog Cajun Chorus Frog Cricket Frog Pickerel Frog Southern Leopard Frog

Toads ▼

View all Toads → American Toad Fowler’s Toad Hurter’s Spadefoot

View all Birds → Bell’s Vireo Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Screech-Owl Fish Crow Great Horned Owl

Backyard Birds ▼

View all Backyard Birds → American Robin Blue Jay Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird

Blackbirds ▼

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Grackles ▼

View all Grackles → Boat-Tailed Grackle Common Grackle Great-Tailed Grackle

Bobolink Brewer’s Blackbird Brown-Headed Cowbird Eastern Meadowlark Red-Winged Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Western Meadowlark

Blue Jays, Crows, Ravens, and Shrikes ▼

View all Blue Jays, Crows, Ravens, and Shrikes → American Crow Blue Jay Chihuahuan Raven

Indigo Bunting

Northern Cardinal

Chickadees & Titmice ▼

View all Chickadees & Titmice → Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse

Cormorants & Anhingas ▼

View all Cormorants & Anhingas → Anhinga Double-Crested Cormorant

Cranes ▼

View all Cranes → Crane and Stork Sandhill Crane Whooping Crane

Doves ▼

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Pigeons ▼

View all Pigeons → Eurasian Collared-Dove Rock Pigeon

Common Ground Dove Mourning Dove White-Winged Dove

Finches ▼

View all Finches → American Goldfinch House Finch Pine Siskin Purple Finch

Flycatchers ▼

View all Flycatchers → Eastern Kingbird Eastern Phoebe Eastern Wood-Pewee Great Crested Flycatcher Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher Vermilion Flycatcher

Pied-Billed Grebe

Gulls ▼

View all Gulls → Bonaparte’s Gull Forster’s Tern Herring Gull Ring-Billed Gull

Herons ▼

View all Herons → Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Little Blue Heron Snowy Egret Tricolored Heron

Hummingbirds ▼

View all Hummingbirds → Anna’s Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Ibises ▼

View all Ibises → Glossy Ibis White Ibis White-Faced Ibis

Invasive Birds ▼

View all Invasive Birds → Common Starling House Sparrow

Belted Kingfisher

Kinglets and Nuthatches ▼

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Kinglets ▼

View all Kinglets → Golden-Crowned Kinglet Ruby-Crowned Kinglet

Nuthatches ▼

View all Nuthatches → Brown-Headed Nuthatch Red-Breasted Nuthatch White-Breasted Nuthatch

Martins and Swallows ▼

View all Martins and Swallows → Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Northern Rough-Winged Swallow Purple Martin Tree Swallow

Mockingbirds & Thrashers ▼

View all Mockingbirds & Thrashers → Brown Thrasher Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird

American White Pelican

American Coot

Raptors ▼

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Falcons ▼

View all Falcons → American Kestrel Merlin

Hawks ▼

View all Hawks → Broad-winged Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Northern Goshawk Northern Harrier Red-Shouldered Hawk Red-Tailed Hawk Sharp-Shinned Hawk Swainson’s Hawk

Kites ▼

View all Kites → Mississippi Kite White-Tailed Kite

Vultures ▼

View all Vultures → Black Vulture Turkey Vulture

Bald Eagle Barred Owl Osprey

Shorebirds ▼

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Sandpipers ▼

View all Sandpipers → Pectoral Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper

Yellowlegs ▼

View all Yellowlegs → Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs

Black-Necked Stilt Killdeer Long-Billed Dowitcher Wilson’s Snipe

Sparrows ▼

View all Sparrows → Chipping Sparrow Clay-Colored Sparrow Dark-Eyed Junco Fox Sparrow House Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Vesper Sparrow White-Crowned Sparrow White-Throated Sparrow

Roseate Spoonbill

Common Starling

Storks ▼

View all Storks → Crane and Stork Wood Stork

Chimney Swift

Summer Tanager

Thrushes ▼

View all Thrushes → American Robin Eastern Bluebird Gray-Cheeked Thrush Hermit Thrush Swainson’s Thrush Thrush

Towhees ▼

View all Towhees → Eastern Towhee Spotted Towhee

Wild Turkey

Vireos ▼

View all Vireos → Blue-Headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Plumbeous Vireo Red-Eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo White-Eyed Vireo

Warblers ▼

View all Warblers → American Redstart Black-and-White Warbler Black-Throated Green Warbler Chestnut-Sided Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Magnolia Warbler Mourning Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Pine Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Tennessee Warbler Yellow-Breasted Chat Yellow-Rumped Warbler

Waterfowl ▼

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Ducks ▼

View all Ducks → American Pekin Duck American Wigeon Black-Bellied Whistling Duck Blue Swedish Duck Blue-Winged Teal Bufflehead Canvasback Gadwall Green-Winged Teal Hooded Merganser Khaki Campbell Duck Lesser Scaup Mallard Muscovy Duck Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Ring-Necked Duck Wood Duck

Geese ▼

View all Geese → Cackling Goose Canada Goose Egyptian Goose Graylag Goose Snow Goose

Cedar Waxwing

Woodpeckers ▼

View all Woodpeckers → Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Red-Headed Woodpecker Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker

Wrens ▼

View all Wrens → Carolina Wren Winter Wren

View all Bugs → Mottled Leech

Ants ▼

View all Ants → Carpenter Ants Fire Ant

Bees ▼

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Bumble Bees ▼

View all Bumble Bees → American Bumble Bee Black and Gold Bumble Bee Brown-Belted Bumble Bee Common Eastern Bumble Bee Two-Spotted Bumble Bee

Green Metallic Sweat Bee Hibiscus Turret Bee Ligated Furrow Bee Southeastern Blueberry Bee Southern Carpenter Bee Western Honeybee

Beetles ▼

View all Beetles → Asian Lady Beetle Convergent Lady Beetle Dung Beetle Rainbow Scarab Rove Beetle Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle

Bivalves and Crustaceans ▼

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Crawfish ▼

View all Crawfish → Digger Crawfish Red Swamp Crawfish

Tadpole Shrimp

Butterflies ▼

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Butterflies ▼

View all Butterflies → American Snout Carolina Satyr Clouded Sulphur Cloudless Sulphur Common Buckeye Dainty Sulphur Eastern Black Swallowtail Eastern Comma Eastern Tailed-Blue Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Falcate Orange Tip Giant Swallowtail Goatweed Leafwing Gulf Fritillary Little Yellow Mimosa Yellow Monarch

Moths ▼

View all Moths → Afflicted Dagger Moth Buck Moth Dotted-Line Angle Moth Eastern Tent Caterpillar Fall Webworm

Skippers ▼

View all Skippers → Checkered Skipper Dun Skipper Horace’s Duskywing Ocola Skipper Silver-Spotted Skipper Southern Broken Dash Zarucco Duskywing

Orange Sulphur Pearl Crescent Phaon Crescent Pipevine Swallowtail Question Mark Red Admiral Red-Banded Hairstreak Red-Spotted Purple Sleepy Orange Southern Dogface Southern Pearly Eye Spicebush Swallowtail Variegated Fritillary Viceroy Zebra Swallowtail

Cicadas ▼

View all Cicadas → Green-Winged Cicada Resh Cicada

Crickets and Grasshoppers ▼

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Grasshoppers ▼

View all Grasshoppers → Admirable Grasshopper American Bird Grasshopper Carolina Grasshopper Differential Grasshopper Eastern Lubber Grasshopper Green-Striped Grasshopper Migratory Grasshopper Mischievous Bird Grasshopper Olive-Green Grasshopper Red-Legged Grasshopper Short-Winged Grasshopper Spur-Throated Grasshopper Sulphur-Winged Grasshopper

Field Cricket Slender Meadow Katydid

Dragonflies and Damselflies ▼

View all Dragonflies and Damselflies →

Damselflies ▼

View all Damselflies → Citrine Forktail Ebony Jewelwing Fragile Forktail Rambur’s Forktail

Dragonflies ▼

View all Dragonflies → Ashy Clubtail Common Baskettail Common Whitetail Eastern Pondhawk Four-Spotted Pennant Great Blue Skimmer Halloween Pennant Lancet Clubtail Slaty Skimmer Swamp Darner Variegated Meadowhawk

Skimmers ▼

View all Skimmers → Blue Corporal Blue Dasher Blue-Faced Meadowhawk Common Whitetail Eastern Pondhawk Four-Spotted Pennant Great Blue Skimmer Slaty Skimmer

Blue-Tipped Dancer

Flies ▼

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Flower Flies ▼

View all Flower Flies → Drone Fly Flower Fly Northern Plushback

Australian Sheep Blowfly Cluster Fly Crane Fly Flesh Fly Hairy Maggot Blow Fly House Fly Long-Legged Green Fly Midge Fly Oriental Latrine Fly Shiny Blue Bottle Fly Yellow-Shouldered Drone Fly

Sawfly

Scorpion Fly

Snails and Slugs ▼

View all Snails and Slugs → Apple Snail Gray Lancetooth Snail Yellow Cellar Slug

Spiders ▼

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Orb Weavers ▼

View all Orb Weavers → Arrow-Shaped Orb Weaver Banana Spider Furrowed Orb Weaver Mabel Orchard Spider Red-Femured Orb Weaver Star-Bellied Orb Weaver

Wolf Spiders ▼

View all Wolf Spiders → Carolina Wolf Spider Rustic Wolf Spider Spotted Wolf Spider

Bark Lynx Spider Red-Faced Jumping Spider Shore Spider Six-Spotted Fishing Spider Tigrosa georgicola Venusta Orchard Spider White-Banded Fishing Spider

Water Strider

Wasps ▼

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Mud Daubers ▼

View all Mud Daubers → Blue Mud Dauber Pipe Organ Mud Dauber

Bent-Shielded Besieger Double-Banded Scoliid Wasp Feather-Legged Scoliid Wasp Fine-Backed Paper Wasp Fraternal Potter Wasp Gold-Marked Thread-Waisted Wasp Great Black Wasp Metric Paper Wasp Red Paper Wasp Ringed Paper Wasp Velvet Ant Yellow-Legged Mud Dauber Yellow-Legged Wasp Yellowjacket

View all Fish → Bluegill Freshwater Drum

Spotted Bass

Spotted Gar

Western Mosquitofish

Topminnows ▼

View all Topminnows → Blackstripe Topminnow Golden Topminnow

View all Mammals → River Otter White-Tailed Deer

Armadillo

Bobcat Coyote Jaguar Louisiana Black Bear Mountain Lion Raccoon Striped Skunk

Feral Hog

Wild Horse of Kisatchie

Louisiana Black Bear Bobcat Jaguar Mountain Lion

Rabbits ▼

View all Rabbits → Cottontail Rabbit Swamp Rabbit

Nutria

Squirrels ▼

View all Squirrels → Eastern Gray Squirrel Fox Squirrel Southern Flying Squirrel

Striped Skunk

View all Reptiles →

American Alligator

Lizards ▼

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Anoles ▼

View all Anoles → Brown Anole Green Anole

Skinks ▼

View all Skinks → Broadhead Skink Five-lined Skink Little Brown Skink

Mediterranean House Gecko

Snakes ▼

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Venomous ▼

View all Venomous → Copperhead Cottonmouth Timber “Canebrake” Rattlesnake

Watersnakes ▼

View all Watersnakes → Broad-Banded Watersnake Diamondback Watersnake Mississippi Green Watersnake

Glossy Swampsnake Rough Green Snake Western Rat Snake

Turtles ▼

View all Turtles → Chicken Turtle Freshwater Turtle Mud Turtle Red-Eared Slider River Cooter Southern Painted Turtle Three-Toed Box Turtle

Invasive

Blackstripe Topminnow Brown Anole Common Starling Coyote Egyptian Goose Eurasian Collared-Dove Fire Ant House Sparrow Northern Mockingbird Red-Eared Slider Western Honeybee Zarucco Duskywing

Threatened & Endangered

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Crane and Stork

Ants

Ants

Bees

Common Eastern Bumble Bee Southern Carpenter Bee Western Honeybee

Scorpions, Snakes, Spiders, and Wasps: profiles coming soon.

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Tensas Parish

Wildlife, wild places, and outdoor adventures in Tensas Parish, North Louisiana.

50 Animals

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Philadelphia Vireo

Vireo philadelphicus

Plumbeous Vireo

Vireo plumbeus

Red-Eyed Vireo

Vireo olivaceus

Rusty Blackbird

Rusty Blackbird

Euphagus carolinus

Carolina Wren

Backyard Birds ✓

Carolina Wren

Thryothorus ludovicianus

Common Grackle

Quiscalus quiscula

Near Threatened

Boat-Tailed Grackle

Quiscalus major

Bobolink

Dolichonyx oryzivorus

Brown-Headed Cowbird

Brown-Headed Cowbird

Molothrus ater

Great-Tailed Grackle

Quiscalus mexicanus

Glossy Swampsnake

Liodytes rigida

Spotted Bass

Micropterus punctulatus

Spotted Gar

Lepisosteus oculatus

Spotted Sandpiper

Actitis macularius

Southern Flying Squirrel

Glaucomys volans

Painted Turtles ✓

Southern Painted Turtle

Chrysemys dorsalis

Southern Leopard Frog

Lithobates sphenocephalus

Swamp Rabbit

Sylvilagus aquaticus

Stilt Sandpiper

Calidris himantopus

Tennessee Warbler

Leiothlypis peregrina

Striped Skunk

Mephitis mephitis

Roseate Spoonbill

Platalea ajaja

American Alligator

American Alligator

Alligator mississippiensis

Chimney Swift

Chaetura pelagica

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