Like all Plasmodium species P. durae has both vertebrate and insect hosts.

The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds.

[1] Mature gametocytes tend to lie obliquely within the host cell, displace the nucleus to one pole of the cell and possess one or more clumps of clear pigment granules.

Hosts of this species include domestic turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) and Swainson's Francolin (Francolinus swainsoni).

"Plasmodium duraeHerman from the Introduced Common Peafowl in Northern Nigeria".