More than one in five Louisiana armadillo reports comes from a single parish. East Baton Rouge’s 173 records dwarf every other parish, a testament to how many eyes are on the ground there rather than to any special love armadillos hold for the state capital. Jefferson, Orleans, and St. Tammany follow, another observer-rich cluster around New Orleans.
Underneath the urban weighting, the animal is genuinely statewide: 59 of 64 parishes have records, from the Kisatchie pine hills to the Jean Lafitte wetlands at the edge of the delta. Warm, wet, diggable country suits armadillos, and Louisiana is nothing if not that.
Reports come in every month, cresting from March through June with a second rise in November. In a state where hard freezes are rare, the calendar tracks human habits more than any constraint on the armadillo itself.
