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LOUISIANA IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS
 

The following list may not include all potential, nominated, pending, identified, or recognized IBAs within the state as some IBA information may be unavailable for public viewing.

  
# Name Status Priority Counties
1. Active Delta (Mississippi River Birdsfoot Delta) Recognized Global Plaquemines
2. Atchafalaya Basin Recognized Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Iberia, Iberville, LaFourche, Pointe Coupee, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, Terrebonne, West Baton Rouge
3. Atchafalaya Delta Recognized Global Assumption, St. Mary, Terrebonne
4. Barataria Terrebonne Recognized Global Assumption, Jefferson, LaFourche, Plaquemines, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Mary, Terrebonne
5. Caddo Cross Lakes Potential Caddo
6. Catahoula-Dewey Wills-Three Rivers Recognized Global Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, La Salle, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, West Feliciana
7. Chandeleur Islands (Breton National Wildlife Refuge) Recognized Global Plaquemines, St. Bernard
8. Chenier Plain Recognized Global Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, St. Mary, Vermilion
9. East Delta Plain Nominated Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany
10. East Kisatchie Recognized Global Grant, La Salle, Natchitoches, Rapides, Red River, Winn
11. Isles Dernieres-Timbalier Islands Recognized Global Terrebonne
12. Lake Martin Recognized Global Lafayette, St. Martin
13. Lake Pontchartrain Recognized Global Jefferson, Orleans, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa
14. Mississippi River Nominated Concordia, East Carroll, Madison, Morehouse, Tensas, West Carroll
15. Red River Nominated Bossier, Caddo, Natchitoches, Red River
16. Toledo Bend Potential De Soto, Sabine, Vernon
17. Upper Ouachita Nominated Morehouse, Union
18. West Kisatchie Recognized Global Grant, Natchitoches, Rapides, Sabine, Vernon
19. West Pontchartrain-Maurepas Swamp Recognized Continental Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Jefferson, Livingston, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa
 

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