POINTE-MARIE
BIRD AND
MAMMAL
STUDY
A Guide to Birdlife and Native
Mammals of Pointe-Marie
A G U I D E T O B I R D L I F E A N D N AT I V E M A M M A L S O F
POINTE-MARIE
In keeping with Pointe-Marie’s creating its place sensitively within the natural
environment, we have worked with Mac Myers, a recognized bird expert, to
prepare a list of bird and wildlife that could be expected within the village.
This list is of Bird species could be expected to occur most years in PointeMarie, or in nearby East Baton Rouge Parish.
Spring
American Golden-Plover
Cerulean Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Bobolink
Spring / Fall
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Upland Sandpiper
Caspian Tern
Philadelphia Vireo
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
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Tennessee Warbler
American Redstart
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Spring / Summer / Fall
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Baltimore Oriole
Spring / Fall / Winter
Blue-winged Teal
Summer
Wood Stork
Green Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Mississippi Kite
Broad-winged Hawk
Least Tern
Great-crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Wood Thrush
Kentucky Warbler
Hooded Warbler
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Acadian Flycatcher
Yellow-throated Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Purple Martin
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Prothonotary Warbler
Swainson’s Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow-throated Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel
Orchard Oriole
Summer / Winter
Great Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Red-tailed Hawk
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Northern Flicker
White-eyed Vireo
American Robin
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Gadwall
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
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Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Wilson’s Snipe
American Woodcock
Bonaparte’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Forster’s Tern
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
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Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
American Kestrel
Merlin
Tree Swallow
Brown Creeper
House Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Winter cont’d
Savannah Sparrow
Le Conte’s Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Rusty Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Purple Finch
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Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Fall
Stilt Sandpiper
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Palm Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Canada Warbler
Lark Sparrow
Winter
Year Round
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Canada Goose (feral)
Wood Duck
Northern Bobwhite
Anhinga
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
White-faced/glossy Ibis
Roseate spoonbill
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Black-necked Stilt
Killdeer
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Laughing Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Barn Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great-horned Owl
Barred Owl
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker y
Pileated Woodpecker
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Towhee
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
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Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
House Sparrow
Year Round / Spring / Fall
Gray Catbird
Year Round / Winter
Mallard
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Pine Warbler
Pointe-Marie Mammal List
This list is of mammals could be expected to occur most years in Pointe-Marie,
or in nearby East Baton Rouge Parish.
Virginia Opossum
Rafinesque’s Big-eared Bat
Nine-banded Armadillo
American Beaver
Southern Short-tailed Shrew
Marsh Rice Rat
Least Shrew
Golden Mouse
Southeastern Shrew
Common Muskrat
Eastern Mole
White-footed Mouse
Brazilian Free-tailed Bat
Cotton Mouse
Eastern Red Bat
Fulvous Harvest Mouse
Hoary Bat
Eastern Harvest Mouse
Seminole Bat
Hispid Cotton Rat
Northern Yellow Bat
Eastern Woodrat
Southeastern Myotis
Southern Flying Squirrel
Evening Bat
Roof Rat
Tri-colored Bat
Norway Rat
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House Mouse
Bobcat
Nutria (Coypu)
Striped Skunk
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Eastern Spotted Skunk
Eastern Fox Squirrel
Northern River Otter
Swamp Rabbit
American Mink
Eastern Cottontail
Long-tailed Weasel
Coyote
Common Raccoon
Red Fox
White-tailed Deer
Common Gray Fox
Resources for Pointe-Marie
Baton Rouge Audubon Society. www.braudubon.org. P.O. Box 67016, Baton Rouge, LA 70896.
This outstanding organization is active in conservation, education, outreach, research, and
field trips. The website is excellent and has good information about birding around Baton
Rouge, as well as links to other sources of information.
Louisiana Ornithological Society. www.losbird.org. This is another outstanding organization.
This website is also excellent. It provides links to many other good sites, most especially the
LABIRD and HUMNET email lists. It also provides access to lists of LA birds, publications, and
many other resources.
Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program. www.btnep.org. P.O. Box 2663, Thibodeaux,
LA 70508. BTNEP, as its name implies, is more focused on coastal environments. However, it
has produced many items which are of interest to people in other parts of the state. It has
many publications available for free download as PDF files. One of particular interest is
Louisiana Hummingbirds by Nancy Newfield.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. www.wlf.louisiana.gov. This website is also
good. Of particular interest are its Waddill Outdoor Education Center in Baton Rouge and its
many Wildlife Management Areas, scattered around the state. Sherburne, Tunica Hills, and
Sandy Hollow are interesting areas close to Baton Rouge.
Louisiana Office of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism. http://www.crt.state.la.us/louisianastate-parks/parks/index. Some of the state parks are excellent for birding and other
wildlife study, and many of them have good cabins and camping facilities.
BREC. www.brec.org. Administers parks and other recreation areas in Baton Rouge. Some of
the facilities are good for birding and other nature study.
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Field Guides and Other Books
Gibbons, Richard, Roger Breedlove, and Charles Lyon. A Birder’s Guide to Louisiana. Colorado
Springs: American Birding Association, 2013. Available as a free PDF download at
www.atchafalaya.org/page.php?name=Birding
Lowery, George H., Jr. Louisiana Birds. Baton Rouge: L.S.U. Press, 1974. Out of print, but
usually available from used book sellers.
Lowery, George H., Jr. The Mammals of Louisiana and Its Adjacent Waters. Baton Rouge: L.S.U.
Press, 1974. Out of print but usually available from used book sellers.
Allen, Charles, Kenneth A Wilson, and Harry H. Winters. Louisiana Wildflower Guide. Pitkin,
LA: Allen Native Ventures, LLC., 2010
The books above are specific to Louisiana. There are many field guides available for plants and
various groups of animals. Most cover all or most of the United States. Choice is often a
matter of personal preference. Many of the guides from Peterson, National Audubon Society,
Kaufman, National Wildlife Federation, and Golden Field Guides are good. For birds, The
Sibley Guide to Birds, 2nd Ed. (Sibley); National Geographic Field Guide to Birds of North
America 6th Ed. (Geo); Peterson Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Peterson); and
Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America are probably the most popular guides. Sibley
and Geo are favored by more experienced birders, while Peterson and Kaufman find favor with
beginners.
Resume for Buford M. (“Mac”) Myers III
General Information and Background
I have been interested in natural history, especially birds, since early childhood.
Following are some activities I have participated in, often as a volunteer, sometimes
involving small gratuities, stipends, or honoraria:
compiled Lacassine-Thornwell Christmas Bird Count;
participated in numerous other Christmas Bird Counts;
served several terms with Louisiana Ornithological Society Bird Records Committee;
contributed regularly to North American Birds and its predecessors;
co-edited Central Southern Region report for North American Birds;
participated in various surveys including plovers, colonial nesters, and pelagic
birds;
conducted beach surveys following the BP oil spill;
conducted aerial surveys of Swallow-tailed Kites in the Sabine River basin;
led or co-led field trips for various organizations including American Birding
Association,
Louisiana Ornithological Society, and Yellow Rails and Rice Festival;
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participated in surveys for the Louisiana summer and winter bird atlas project.
Relevant Professional Experience
2005-2006. I worked as sub-contractor for Fermata, Inc. doing surveys and
preparing reports for sites in central Alabama and in Louisiana. These sites included
areas of cultural or historical interest as well as natural areas.
Spring 2003. I assisted L.S.U. Museum of Natural Science personnel Steve Cardiff
and Donna Dittmann at a workshop on non-game species for wildlife managers at
Rockefeller Refuge in Cameron Parish, LA. My primary duties were conducting
workshops using specimens and leading field trips.
Fall 1998 through fall 2000. I worked as a field biologist with the Migration Over
the Gulf Project. This was a major study which resulted in the publication
Interactions Between Migrating Birds and Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms in the
Northern Gulf of Mexico Final Report; OCS Study MMS 2005-009.
Spring and early summer 1999. Following the end of the spring season offshore, I
went to Alaska to serve as a bird and marine mammal observer aboard the research
vessel Alpha Helix for surveys lasting just over a month, primarily in the Bering Sea.
1978-1981. I worked as a naturalist with the Louisiana Nature Center. I researched
and wrote the interpretive materials for major exhibits; researched and developed
three nature trails and two ponds, and prepared the interpretive brochure to
accompany them; wrote and developed a variety of natural history materials; trained
volunteers; and presented programs to the public.
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