The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries invites high school students throughout the state to join us on April 2 for the first annual Battle for the Bass, a fishing tournament hosted in conjunction with the 69th annual Big Bass Rodeo in New Orleans City Park.
Paul Link, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ North American Waterfowl Management plan coordinator, holds a banded specklebelly goose. The department is studying habitat use, movements, immigration and emigration, fidelity to wintering areas of specklebellies. (Submitted photo)
They fly by your house, and they honk.
No, they aren’t friends and neighbors greeting you as they travel on your street — they are migrating geese.
Of the species of geese that midwinter in Louisiana, specklebellies are visiting the state in dwindling numbers.
Wintering counts in Louisiana of white-fronted geese, often called specklebellies, have declined in the last two decades, according to the mid-winter waterfowl survey conducted every January. (Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Photo)
White-fronted geese, often called specklebellies, flock to Louisiana during the fall and winter and are a popular game choice for hunters.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the U.S.
Proposed waterfowl zones for the 2016-2021 seasons. Proposed changes to the waterfowl hunting zones are available for public comment through Nov. 5.
Possible changes to the state's three waterfowl hunting zones could place almost all of St. Landry Parish in the East Zone for the 2016-2021 seasons, and the change would go into effect during next year's fall hunting seasons.
