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These branch-nesting insectivores favor extensively wooded landscapes but forage mainly in deciduous trees at the edges of fields, water courses, and treefalls. Very few gnatcatchers were detected in the Prairie/Rice Field and Coastal Marsh regions.
painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 1914
male (left) and female (right)
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Away from the Coastal Marsh and Prairie/Rice Field regions, these insectivores inhabit both uplands and bottomlands. In addition, atlasers found them nesting in the area of high ground around and south of Lafayette. Eastern Bluebirds were one of about eight species of Louisiana birds that adopted old nest cavities of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker.
painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 1914
male (left), juvenile (middle), female (right)
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These branch-nesting insectivores breed in broad-leaved forests both in the Pine and Mississippi/Red River regions but are absent from the Coastal Marsh Region. The Wood Thrush is frequently parasitized by the Brown-headed Cowbird and is included on the Audubon WatchList for North America.
painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 1914
male or female