Please click here for a print-friendly guide to birding in La Plata County
by local authors, available from Colorado Field Ornithologists.
Want to go farther afield than the Durango area? Click here for a PDF version of the Birding Trail Guide for Southwestern Colorado, brought to you by multiple partners.
The information below, based on eBird, together with the above mentioned guide, should provide enough background for you to have a good birding experience in the Durango area. Happy Birding! Click on hotspot names below or menu on right for more information and to move through this page.
Why, at times, do the number of species at the hotspots listed below not match the ebird lists for the same hotspot? Simply because people continuously add new species to these areas through their ebird lists. Numbers are checked and updated on this website twice a month.
Hotspots in and around Durango
Animas River Trail hotspots (in order of south to north)
Dallabetta Park (112 species recorded on eBird)
Animas River - High Bridge to River Road (146 species recorded on eBird)
RiverGate (130 species recorded on eBird)
Behind 4 Corners Riversports (161 species recorded on eBird)
Santa Rita Park (136 species recorded on eBird)
Huck Finn Pond and Hatchery (208 species recorded on eBird)
Animas River Walk: E. 32nd Street vicinity (136 species recorded on eBird)
Other hotspots (in alphabetical order)
Animas City Mountain Park (109 species recorded on eBird)
Bodo Bodo State Wildlife Area (111 species recorded on eBird)
Fort Lewis College Hill (114 species recorded on eBird)
Horse Gulch (94 species recorded on eBird)
Junction Creek Campground area (120 species recorded on eBird)
Meadow Road, Rafter J subdivision (104 species recorded on eBird)
Old Fort Lewis College, Hesperus (88 species recorded on eBird)
Oxbow Park and Preserve (173 species recorded on eBird)
Pastorius Reservoir (271 species recorded on eBird)
Perin’s Peak Wildlife Area (103 species recorded on eBird)
Zink’s Pond (197 species recorded on eBird)
Animas River Walk: E. 32nd Street vicinity (Animas River Trail)
136 species recorded on eBird
Santa Rita Park (Animas River Trail)
136 species recorded on eBird
More information and directions
Dallabetta Park (Animas River Trail)
112 species recorded on eBird
More information and directions
Behind 4Corners Riversports (Animas River Trail)
161 species recorded on eBird
Huck Finn Pond and Hatchery (Animas River Trail)
208 species recorded on eBird
Click here for detailed habitat map of Huck Finn Pond and Fish Hatchery
Bodo State Wildlife Area
111 species recorded on eBird
Old Fort Lewis College Ag Station
88 species recorded on eBird
More information and directions
Important note about location: the site is located south of the marker (at least 5 km) on eBird (see below aerial for actual site). The above link in Google Maps is correct.
Access by permission only.
Contact Beth LaShell: 970-385-4574; lashell_b@fortlewis.edu
Perins Peak Wildlife Area
103 species recorded on eBird
More information and seasonal restrictions
Zink's Pond
197 species recorded on eBird
Google map (Note: the pond is not shown on Google Maps)
Note: This is private property, and there is no access to the pond. However, there is a nice access to viewing from the SE side. A bird-sighting register is provided at the pullover on CR 215. Please consider adding your bird sightings, especially any unusual birds.
Image provided by eBird (www.ebird.org) and created [6 March 2017].