This camera captured the daily rhythms of a whooping crane nest in a rice-crawfish farm field rotation. The female of this pair was the first female to nest and lay eggs in Louisiana in 2014, three years after reintroduction of this historic non-migratory population began after being wiped out in 1950. Now with another mate since 2018, the pair have raised several chicks. Southwest Louisiana has large tracts of native wetland habitat. The area’s predominant agriculture are seasonally flooded fields that create temporary wetlands.

*The nest cameras were installed with the permission and under the guidance of whooping crane scientists and associated entities.