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Saturday diversity

Our final full day benefitted from more beautiful weather and more great birding. It was another early start at the rice harvest site,...

More record numbers of rails.

Yesterday's evening finale of Soras continued to today...a lot of birds must have moved south with the front. Fields cut today must have...

A happy Halloween

Although we were prepared for a Halloween “trick” to be played on us by the continuing unsettled weather, it turned out to be a day of...

Pre-YRARF Wednesday off to a foggy start

Our Wednesday line-up included all-day pineywoods and “beat the crowds” field trips plus an afternoon trip to Crowley visiting the...

Follow YRARF 2019 on our new blog!

Our blog will be the go-to place for bird reports (eBird links) or other helpful information leading up, through the festival, and...

Louisiana's rail species

All of the species shown in the image (except for Black Rail) have been seen in SW Louisiana's rice fields during ratoon (or 2nd) harvest...

Join the YRARF Community

Our new blog comes with a built-in members area - so we will try that this year. Readers can easily sign easily up to become members....