“In March of 1950, the last remaining whooping crane in Louisiana was captured at White Lake and transported to Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on the central Texas coast with the hopes that it would ...

In relation to this, approximately 6% of all living birds, which is around 573 species, are defined as ecologically rare. In Louisiana ... The whooping crane stands at nearly five feet tall ...

The heartbreaking predicament came to light when Louisiana whooping crane researchers discovered one of their birds had lost her mate of “several years” while nesting in Southeast Texas.

A number of rare and endangered bird species can be seen in Louisiana, if you know how to find them. Here are the species and bird watching spots.