Birding spots · Tennessee

Best Birding Spots in Shelby County, Tennessee

Penal Farm Lake Number Three leads Shelby County's birding spots with 225 species reported, best in fall. 56 spots in the county have enough data to rank.

Species counts are birds reported at least three times in that season at that spot, 2016–2025. Busy spots list more species simply because more people look, so compare the checklist counts. Spot names come from public map data and hotspot listings.

Spot	Species	Checklists	Winter	Spring	Summer	Fall
Penal Farm Lake Number Three	225	3,829	103	176	119	178
Spring Lake	186	1,892	100	137	88	150
Penal Farm Lake Number Three (Penal Farm Lake Number Two)	179	851	92	157	74	130
Eagle Lake Refuge	173	207	77	157	52	47
Shelby Farms	170	879	85	149	80	110
Penal Farm Lake Number One	169	517	94	138	72	105
To Fuller	164	508	79	140	87	111
Robbins-Halle Nature Preserve	159	650	78	126	78	103
Penal Farm Lake Number Two	154	1,572	103	113	68	102
Poplar Tree Lake	149	377	69	122	69	88
Penal Farm Lake Number Two (Penal Farm Lake Number One)	147	511	76	126	60	72
Old Forest Designated State Natural Area	145	1,823	60	137	50	87
Mud Island Park	143	265	38	75	52	110
W.C. Johnson Park	138	529	57	115	70	99
Shelby Farms (west)	132	221	88	62	65	68
Nonconnah Trail Head	130	361	58	106	65	78
Meeman-Shelby Forest Wildlife Management Area	126	236	50	106	47	85
Shelby Farms (southeast)	125	222	78	88	55	74
Lichterman	124	932	65	107	61	88
Lake McKellar	124	348	42	66	85	54
Piersol Lake	124	291	39	111	60	100
To Fuller (Cypress Creek)	121	491	54	90	70	62
Wolf River Greenway	121	268	57	109	56	59
Meeman-Shelby Forest Wildlife Management Area (north)	121	64	42	105	9	14
W.C. Johnson Park (west)	120	187	58	98	62	72
Shelby Farms (northeast)	116	97	60	82	46	86
Epping Corridor	115	206	57	90	59	66
Shelby Farms (Penal Farm Lake Number Three)	114	106	73	63	47	48
Edmund Orgill Park	113	143	72	60	17	67
Penal Farm Lake Number One (Clay (historical))	112	333	79	59	35	81
Robco Lake	108	179	72	73	19	69
Shelby Farms (east)	104	259	62	72	46	51
Meeman-Shelby Forest Wildlife Management Area (Piersol Lake)	101	96	38	86	43	38
Shelby Farms (east)	98	212	78	63	0	28
Rodney Baber Park	94	91	50	70	39	45
Lucius Burch Jr Forest Designated State Natural Area	94	79	53	67	28	46
Meeman-Shelby Forest Wildlife Management Area (northeast)	94	57	36	71	21	30
Shelby Farms (Penal Farm Lake Number One)	89	155	52	64	62	45
John F Kennedy Park	85	82	49	54	48	57
Piersol Lake (Marie Lake)	80	64	28	54	27	36
Halle Park	76	116	30	51	29	49
Riverwoods Designated State Natural Area	73	72	33	50	24	13
Cameron Brown Park	72	105	31	54	22	21
Shelby Farms (west)	71	82	51	42	13	28
Audubon Park	70	121	27	65	32	29
Spring Lake (Shelby Farms)	52	58	39	8	8	4
Memphis Zoological Garden	42	75	10	26	20	20
Birding spot near Lakeview	239	1,790	92	203	146	181
Birding spot near Piperton	151	384	61	142	59	91
Birding spot near Lakeview (northwest)	146	113	28	130	83	60