Amidst a maze of beautiful swamps, marshes, lakes and waterways, Joe's Landing is located at the southern end of Bayou Barataria where fish spawn and feed. What makes Joe's location unique is the influence of the Mississippi River on this ecosystem.

Like a bird's foot, the delta of the mighty Mississippi juts deep into the Gulf of Mexico. With the Continental Shelf so close to shore, sediment-laden riverwater mixes with cold, deep-sea currents, creating a nutrient rich zone where both salt and freshwater fish flourish.

Birdlover's Paradise

The wetlands surrounding Joe's Landing offer one of the most diverse displays of birds and waterfowl in North America.

This is the last landfall for birds journeying the Mississippi Flyway to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

As it can take waterfowl 12 hours to migrate across the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico, birds spend weeks at a time building their energy reserves before or after the long, non-stop flight. (While birds such as Canadian Geese and Green Head Mallards migrate, others such as Great Herons, Egrets, Brown Pelicans and Bald Eagles live here year-round.) Over the course of one day, it is inevitable that several species will be seen either flying overhead or fishing the banks just a stone's throw away.

Why do members of the Audubon Society return to coastal Louisiana year after year?
Over 150 species were sighted at a local birding event last spring. Look what they saw...

See the beauty of Louisiana's coastal wetlands for yourself.
Book an ecotour at Joe's today.

To learn more about birding in our area, visit the Wings Over The Wetlands website. For information about other places to go and things to see in Louisiana, try See Louisiana.