Outdoor

Top two photos: Male ruby-crowned kinglets shave a red streak on top of their heads. Middle photo: Inca doves are a visitor from southwest Texas and Mexico that seem to be expanding their range more and more eastward. Fourth photo: Red-bellied woodpeckers are year around residents in St. Mary Parish. Bottom photo: This Couch’s kingbird is a rare winter visitor to St. Mary Parish.

John Flores: Eagle Expo is prime time for birders

Fri, 02/18/2022 - 8:16am

By JOHN FLORES

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The author shows a winter redfish he caught on Marsh Island.

John Flores: Outdoors, winter is time to take your time

Fri, 12/03/2021 - 7:50am

Wilford Brimley’s character, Joe Gill, in the made for television western "Crossfire Trail," tells the younger J.T.

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Alexandre L. Dopkin sets up a mottled duck nest site in the marsh.

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A clapper rail was one of the surprise perpetrators that depredated a mottled duck nest.
Photo courtesy of Alexandre L. Dopkin

John K. Flores: Study may shed light on decline in duck numbers

Thu, 06/03/2021 - 1:00pm

Alexandre Dopkin, an LSU graduate student working on his Master's in Renewable and Natural Resources, meticulously fashioned a bowl-shaped nest out of Jamaican saw grass with hopes that it resemble