House Sparrow
Chunky introduced sparrow closely tied to buildings, livestock areas, sidewalks, and busy human settlement
Louisiana, United States: places and wildlife — page 2
Browse the published Explore collection for Louisiana, United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
European Starling
Glossy introduced bird with a pointed bill, triangular wings, and astonishingly coordinated winter flocks
Muskrat
Stocky aquatic rodent with a vertically flattened tail, compact lodge, and busy wetland feeding routes
American Mink
Dark, low-slung mustelid moving quickly along water edges while hunting on land and underwater
Shortleaf Pine
Shortleaf pine once shaped vast Ozark landscapes, and restoration is rebuilding the open, fire-influenced woodland beneath its crowns.
American Black Bear
America’s most widespread bear is often easier to recognize by tracks, clawed logs, and overturned stones than by a direct sighting.
Florida Manatee
The Florida manatee moves between rivers, estuaries, springs, and seagrass beds, surfacing quietly in waters shared with boats.
Common Bottlenose Dolphin
A curved dorsal fin, robust gray body, and short bottle-shaped beak mark a dolphin that finds prey through both vision and echolocation.
Osprey
Dark eye stripe, kinked long wings, and reversible outer toes identify the fish specialist nesting beside Oregon waters.
Largemouth Bass
A jaw extending behind the eye, deep body, and dark side stripe separate largemouth bass from their smaller-mouthed relatives.
Bluegill
A deep compressed body, dark ear flap, and blue-green cheek identify a widespread sunfish that rewards close looking.
Red Drum
Copper-bronze sides, blunt head, and one or more black spots near the tail identify a drum moving from marsh creek to open coast.
Monarch Butterfly
Orange wings with heavy black veins identify a migrant whose caterpillars can eat only milkweeds and whose journey outlasts any one summer adult.
Common Green Darner
Large size, bright green thorax, and a dark bull’s-eye on the forehead help identify a darner capable of continental movement.
Black Swallowtail
Paired rows of yellow spots and an orange-centered hindwing eye distinguish a butterfly whose striped caterpillar feeds on carrots’ wild relatives.
Say’s Firefly
A dark firefly with pale margins and an angular shield pattern, Say’s firefly turns summer dusk into species-specific communication.
Large-flowered Trillium
Three broad leaves, three white petals, and a flower held above a single whorl mark Ohio’s woodland wildflower.
Common Milkweed
Opposite broad leaves, milky sap, round pink flower clusters, and warty pods identify a plant central to monarch development.
American Holly
Spiny evergreen leaves, pale bark, and red winter fruit identify a native holly once central to Delaware wreath making.
Northern Red Oak
Bristle-tipped leaf lobes, shallow-striped bark, and broad acorns distinguish New Jersey’s state tree from rounded-lobed white oaks.
Tulip Tree
Four-lobed leaves with a notched flat tip and green-orange tulip-like flowers identify one of eastern North America’s tallest hardwoods.
Red Maple
Red buds, flowers, leaf stalks, and paired winged seeds recur across the year on Rhode Island’s adaptable state tree.
Longleaf Pine
Needles up to well over a foot long, huge cones, and a tufted grass-stage seedling identify the pine behind one of America’s richest savannas.
Indian Blanket
Oklahoma’s state wildflower brings red-and-yellow color to dry roadsides for months, but its common name should not be treated as a generic Indigenous design license.
Post Oak
Post oak forms the stubborn skeletal framework of the Cross Timbers, where slow growth records drought, fire, and poor soil.
Blackjack Oak
Thick leathery leaves and a scrappy crown let blackjack oak occupy soils where richer forest trees grow poorly.
Loblolly Pine
Arkansas’s state tree is a fast-growing southern pine whose long three-needle bundles, broad bark plates, and working-forest history shape the Coastal Plain.
Northern Mockingbird
Arkansas’s state bird patrols open neighborhood territories, flashing white wings and stitching other birds’ sounds into long improvised songs.
The National WWII Museum
Immersive campaign galleries, oral histories, restored aircraft, and a submarine experience connect World War II strategy to individual service and civilian lives.
New Orleans Museum of Art
Global collections, Louisiana art, photography, decorative arts, and more than ninety outdoor sculptures meet at the edge of City Park.
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
A focused collection of art from the American South brings regional modernism, self-taught practice, photography, craft, and contemporary voices into conversation.
The Cabildo
Inside a Spanish Colonial landmark, objects and documents trace Indigenous homelands, colonial regimes, the Louisiana Purchase, statehood, and the Battle of New Orleans.
The Presbytère
Mardi Gras craft and Hurricane Katrina testimony share a landmark beside Jackson Square; building work can interrupt access, so confirm reopening before visiting.
The Historic New Orleans Collection
Free galleries, changing exhibitions, restored buildings, and a deep research collection make New Orleans history readable through objects, maps, photographs, and architecture.
Capitol Park Museum
Statewide history galleries connect Indigenous cultures, slavery, migration, industry, disaster, politics, music, foodways, and everyday creativity across Louisiana.
Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum
Louisiana athletic achievement shares a sculptural museum with Caddo, Creole, river, military, and community history from the state’s northwest.
Whitney Plantation
A former sugar plantation uses buildings, memorials, research, and guided interpretation to center the lives and resistance of enslaved people.
Laura Plantation
A guided tour uses a colorful Creole house, plantation records, family memoir, work spaces, and cabins to examine sugar, kinship, slavery, and language.
Chalmette Battlefield and National Cemetery
The landscape of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans shares ground with a national cemetery and interpretation of the many communities drawn into war.
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Oakland and Magnolia preserve different parts of a Cane River plantation system shaped by slavery, Creole communities, tenant farming, agriculture, and long continuity.
Shadows-on-the-Teche
A National Trust property combines a Greek Revival house, Bayou Teche garden, and unusually rich family papers with histories of slavery, war, and preservation.
Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site
A full-scale reconstruction interprets the French colonial post that guarded trade and diplomacy near the young Natchitoches settlement.
Poverty Point World Heritage Site
Six concentric ridges, massive mounds, a plaza, and far-reaching exchange reveal an Indigenous hunter-gatherer center unprecedented in ancient North America.
Marksville State Historic Site
A horseshoe-shaped embankment and burial mounds connect Louisiana to the broader Hopewell interaction sphere nearly two thousand years ago.
Los Adaes State Historic Site
The archaeological remains of a Spanish mission and presidio reveal a porous frontier shaped as much by Caddo diplomacy and trade as imperial rivalry.
New Orleans Botanical Garden
Depression-era garden rooms, tropical conservatories, Louisiana plants, sculpture, roses, and working demonstration beds unfold inside City Park.
Longue Vue House and Gardens
A carefully integrated house and series of garden rooms reveal twentieth-century design, philanthropy, domestic labor, and New Orleans horticulture.
Jungle Gardens
A semitropical driving and walking garden crosses live-oak groves, marsh edge, camellias, azaleas, a historic Buddha shrine, and an egret rookery.