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Birdwatching

Birdwatching opportunities are available on five tracts at the Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge. The Champion Lake Public Use Area offers the most variety. This 800-acre cypress-tree-studded lake and adjacent 2,300 acres of bottomland hardwood forest offers viewing (depending on time of the year) of at least a dozen species of waterfowl, Bald Eagle, Swallow-tailed Kite, Osprey, Wood Stork, Painted Bunting, Vermillion Flycatcher, Bluebird and numerous warbler species including the Prothonotary Warbler. A short levee trail is available (use dependent on flood levels) or you can bird with a small boat. Other tracts that offer birding opportunities include Butler Tract, Brierwood Tract, Page Tract, and McGuire tract. various chicks nesting

 

Click here to view Refuge bird species .

 

Except for a portable toilet at Champion Lake, no other facilities are available.

Please leave the area cleaner than when you arrived.

Click here for Refuge regulations.

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Contact the Refuge Manager at fw2_rw_trinityriver@fws.gov