Louisiana sites
For an interactive Google map - click on map image on left
For Google composite map of festival sites - click on Jenning’s star on Louisiana map above.
SE pineywoods specialties, such as Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Bachman’s Sparrow, Brown-headed Nuthatch, and wintering Henslow’s Sparrow, are only an hour away at Indian Creek State Park.
Lacassine NWR headquarters and pool units are minutes away.
Cameron Prairie NWR is less than an hour away.
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Indian Creek State Park
Lake Charles
Cameron
Lafayette
Jennings
Major airports are located in New Orleans and Baton Rouge; Lafayette and Lake Charles have smaller local airports.
Map colors show Louisiana’s principal habitat types:
Light green: Riverine alluvial plain.
Dark green: includes historic longleaf pineywoods regions.
Rust: Historic prairie region includes SW rice-growing area.
Blue: coastal marsh and barrier beaches.
From centrally located Jennings, Louisiana, The Yellow Rails and Rice Festival is close to lots of great birding sites - most an hour or less away by car.
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