The Lower Mississippi River Water Trail
Rivergator Atchafalaya River Appendix 4:
Flora & Fauna:
As seen on the Rivergator Expedition
Atchafalaya River:
Old River to Gulf of Mexico
Flora & Fauna:
Black Willow
American Sycamore
Eastern Cottonwood
Bald Cypress
Box Elder
Rough-Leaved Dogwood
Southern Live Oak
Southern Hackberry aka Sugarberry
Chinese Tallow Tree
Chinese Privet
Green Ash
Water Hickory / Bitter Pecan
Red Mulberry
American Persimmon
Button Bush
Poison Ivy
Pepper Vine
Trumpet Creeper
Climbing Hempvine
at least 3 species of Hibiscus
False Indigo Bush
Sesbania (rattle box)
Blue Mistflower
Moonflower
Ground Nut
unidentified legume
invasive poisonous legume
Burr Cucumber
Lantana
number of Grape species
Soybean
Corn
Sagittaria
Roseau Cane / Common Reed
Spartina (marsh grass)
Eastern Baccharis
Cattail
Giant Bulrush
Pickerelweed
Water Hyacinth
Alligator Weed
Pennywort
Water Clover (Marsilea sp.) – the “four leaf clover”
Pondweed (Potamogeton sp.) – the plant with all the elongated leaves floating near the surface of the water where we got stuck paddling back up.
Spanish Moss
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture?
Bald Eagle
Osprey
White Pelican
Brown Pelican
White Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Magnificent Frigatebird
Black Necked Stilt
Red Winged Blackbird
Great-tailed grackle
some Hawks
Barred Owl vocalizations
seagulls
terns
American Oystercatcher?
Marsh Wren?
some kind of sparrows in the marsh
some kinds of swallows and/or swifts
some kind of sandpiper
some kind of warbler
Rough Green Snake
Red Eared Slider (turtle)
Common Musk Turtle
Cottonmouth
American Alligator
lots of frogs
Beaver
Cottontail Rabbit
Whitetail Deer
Wild Hog
Coyote
lots of small rodent tracks
Bobcat tracks?
Alligator Gar
Asian Carp
other Gar
Shad? (in the boat)
Mullet
Catfish
River Shrimp
Hermit Crab
Variety of snails
Horned Passalus (big beetle)
Golden Orb Weaver
number of moths and butterflies
Louisiana Delta | 229 – 10 | BATON ROUGE TO VENICE |
Birdsfoot Delta | 10 – 0 | VENICE TO GULF OF MEXICO |
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