New Orleans sits in the Mississippi delta below sea level, ringed by swamp and marsh, and the wildlife presses right up to the city. Brown pelicans and laughing gulls work the lake and river, alligators live in City Park lagoons and every nearby bayou, and great egrets and roseate spoonbills stalk the shallows. The live oaks fill with migrating songbirds each spring, and nutria, the big introduced rodents, chew through the canal banks everywhere.
Everything below is pulled live from recent research-grade observations near New Orleans. Browse by group, explore the map, and identify what you find with Huck.
32,703
recent observations
30
species listed
11
birds
5
reptiles & amphibians
7
plants
Naturalists have logged 32,703 research-grade observations across the 30 most-recorded species near New Orleans. The most frequently seen is the American Alligator, with 2,949 recorded sightings.
Birds account for the largest share of what gets recorded there (11 of the species listed here), followed by reptiles & amphibians (5).