The Lower Mississippi River Water Trail
Rivergator Appendix 4
Flora & Fauna:
As seen on the Rivergator Expedition
Baton Rouge 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.
- 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
- Hermit Crab
- Variety of snails
- Horned Passalus (big beetle)
- Golden Orb Weaver
- number of moths and butterflies
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