The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel.
The Fermilab Bird Monitoring Project has been ongoing since 1987, covering large portions of the lab's 6,800 acres of habitat, including a variety of wetlands, woods, savanna, agricultural land, and scrub. Monitoring there since the project began, Denis Kania explains the color-banded charts you've seen in DBC mini-tutorial videos—how the survey is broken into five-year time periods, with quarterly increments for each month—and how they inform monitoring efforts. He also shares the wealth of information available on its homepage, including a full list of bird species (291 at this point), recent sightings, prime birding locations at Fermi, pictures, and data from annual Spring and Christmas Bird Counts. For more on birds and birding in DuPage County, visit https://www.dupagebirding.org.
As meetings and field trips have been altered for the short term due to the Covid-19 the Board offers a way to connect with you and enrich your birding experience.
Several Mini-tutorials are live and focus on: Fall Warblers; the updated checklist of birds in DuPage; the return of Osprey in DuPage; the Tanagers; Hairy vs. Downy Woodpeckers; Pine Warbler vs. Yellow-throated Vireo; Sandpipers; yellow, female warblers; separating Louisiana and Northern Waterthrushes, a look at early-arriving small flycatchers and then a drill down on bird topography to help you analyze what you see when you look at a bird. And more fascinating topics will follow.
Visit the DuPage Birding Club YouTube channel  at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEilyuewO86Cds5CoA7-GcQ
Be sure to subscribe to the channel so you will be alerted when new content is posted, which will be frequent. Enjoy!