Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge 

Size: 9,621 acres

Location:
• Headquarters/Visitors Center: west side of LA 27, approximately 14 miles north of the LA 82/LA 27 split
• Pintail Wildlife Drive: east side of LA 27, 2 miles south of headquarters (heading north from LA 82/LA 27 split, you pass the Pintail Wildlife Drive before you reach the Headquarters/Visitors Center

In One Fowl Swoop!
Located at the convergence of two major flyways, Cameron Prairie NWR was created to support, protect, and promote winter habitat for migratory waterfowl and geese. Its 9,621 acres include fresh marsh, coastal prairie, and old rice fields (currently moist soil units).

Pintail Wildlife Drive
A 3-mile long auto loop (one way only) through this remote habitat offers an special opportunity for wildlife observation and photography.

Get the Scoop
For a better understanding of how the NWR staff fulfill the NWR goals, stop in at the Visitors Center which has excellent interpretive exhibitions including a talking diorama!

Birder Alert
During the winter, Cameron Prairie NWR’s waterfowl visitors include gadwall, green-winged teal, northern shoveler, northern pintail and ring-neck ducks as well as greater white-fronted geese and snow geese.

Mottled ducks and fulvous whistling-ducks nest and raise young on all three refuges — Cameron Prairie, Sabine and Lacassine. Mottled ducks are the only duck species, however, to spend the entire year living on the refuges.

Activities
• Visitors Center at the Refuge Headquarters features new interpretive exhibits explaining the value of this environment and the National Wildlife Refuge’s efforts to maintain it.
• Birding: year-round -observe migrating geese and ducks as well as common snipe and woodcock in the fall, wading and shore birds in spring and summer, songbirds passing through during spring and fall migrations.
• Photography: wildlife, birds and nature panoramas.
• Hiking: on dikes and levees throughout the refuge unless otherwise indicated.
• Boating: motorized (less than 25 horsepower) boats allowed in refuge canals, bayous and lakes; only electric trolling motors in refuge marshes