DuPage Birding Club

DBC is pleased to welcome Amar Ayyash as our November speaker. Amar is both an expert on the gulls of North America and an evangelist for "gull recreation." He coordinates the Illinois Ornithological Society’s Annual Gull Frolic on Lake Michigan, hosts the popular website anythinglarus.com, and administers the North American Gulls Facebook group.

Amar is often found speaking at birding events and leading field trips throughout the continent. Much of his free time is dedicated to traveling the world to photograph and study gulls. Amar has published a number of papers and articles on gull identification, distribution, and molt. He is the author of the upcoming book, The Gull Guide (October 2024).

Amar’s presentation will focus on highlighting key identification field marks for separating our most common gull species. He will touch on often-ignored topics in gull-study such as the aging process, plumage, and molt. Gull identification is often considered the bane of birders’ existence. This is the meeting to come to if you want to learn more about the diverse world of gulls.

We hope that you can join us for this hybrid meeting on Thursday, November 14, at 7:00 p.m. Amar will be speaking to us in person and will have copies of his new book available for purchase. To register for the virtual meeting, click here.

The In-person Meeting will be held at Faith Lutheran Church (41 Park Boulevard, Glen Ellyn). Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the meeting starts at 7:00 pm .

Please join us for a premeeting dinner at Ellyn’s Tap and Grill (940 Roosevelt Rd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137) from 5:30-6:30pm. Come mingle with your fellow birders before the official meeting!