05/20/2026
It's Whooper Wednesday!
Today we're highlighting our four Jefferson Davis Parish crane families who we checked on yesterday!!
All four of these families nested and are raising their chicks on private property, in crawfish fields, and we're incredibly grateful for the excellent habitat that is provided by these farms and for the cooperation of these landowners and farmers!
Although each of these families are located in crawfish fields, each farm varies with the amount and types of vegetation in the fields, and each pair behaves a bit differently.
L11-11, L1-19, and their 9 week old chick, LW1-26 live in a large crawfish field with a lot of vegetation but the chick is big enough to easily be seen alongside its parents.
LW13-26, who is 6.5 weeks old is often hard to spot, remaining hidden in thick vegetation on the levee while its wild-hatched parents forage close by. You'll have to use your imagination and trust us when we tell you that the orangey-brown spot in the center of the red circle is LW13-26. ๐
There's a lot of tall vegetation in the fields where almost one month old, LW16-26 lives with parents, LW5-21 and L7-22 but we caught a quick glimpse yesterday when the family moved through a more open area of the field.
And finally, pair L5-14 and L12-16 live in a series of pretty open fields with their two chicks, LW24 and LW25-26, but because the chicks are still young, only ~3 weeks old, the family is still mainly sticking to the levees and edges of the fields where the chicks can more easily move around.
