A bird rarely seen in Louisiana that now seems to have found a new home in the coastal swamps and marshes, a wading bird called the limpkin. “They’re not natural to this area. Most of them are ...

The Maurepas Swamp is a 176-square-mile wetland 26 miles west of New Orleans, bordering Maurepas Lake, a 93-square-mile brackish estuary. It's a quintessential Louisiana landscape, home to water ...