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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 (110 species recorded on eBird) 

Animas River - High Bridge to River Road (145 species recorded on eBird) 

RiverGate (126 species recorded on eBird) 

Behind 4 Corners Riversports (156 species recorded on eBird) 

Santa Rita Park (135 species recorded on eBird) 

Huck Finn Pond and Hatchery (208 species recorded on eBird) 

Animas River Walk: E. 32nd Street vicinity (135 species recorded on eBird) 

Other hotspots (in alphabetical order)

Animas City Mountain Park (107 species recorded on eBird) 

Bodo Bodo State Wildlife Area (111 species recorded on eBird)

Fort Lewis College Hill (112 species recorded on eBird) 

Horse Gulch (89 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 (268 species recorded on eBird) 

Perin’s Peak Wildlife Area (100 species recorded on eBird) 

Zink’s Pond (197 species recorded on eBird) 

Animas City Mountain Park

107 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

Animas River Walk: E. 32nd Street vicinity (Animas River Trail)

135 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

Santa Rita Park (Animas River Trail)

135 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

More information and directions

RiverGate (Animas River Trail)

126 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

Dallabetta Park (Animas River Trail)

110 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

More information and directions

Dallabetta
Home Depot
RiverGate
4Corners Riversports

Behind 4Corners Riversports (Animas River Trail)

156 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

Santa Rita Park
Huck Finn Pond & Hatchery
Animas River 32nd Street

Huck Finn Pond and Hatchery (Animas River Trail)

208 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

Click here for detailed habitat map of Huck Finn Pond and Fish Hatchery

Animas City Mountain Park

Bodo State Wildlife Area

111 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map 

More information and directions

Bodo State Wildlife Area

Fort Lewis College Hill

112 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

Fort Lewis College Hill

Horse Gulch

89 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

Horse Gulch

Junction Creek Campground area

120 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

More information and directions

Junction Creek

Meadow Road, Rafter J subdivision

104 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

Rafter J
Old Fort Lewis

Old Fort Lewis College Ag Station

88 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

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

Oxbow

Oxbow Park and Preserve

173 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

More information and access restrictions

Pastorius Reservoir

Perins Peak Wildlife Area

100 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

Google map

More information and seasonal restrictions

Perins Peak Wildlife Area
Zink's Pond

Zink's Pond

197 species recorded on eBird

eBird Checklist

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].

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