The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel.
Mini-tutorial covering warblers from an angle we all too often find ourselves viewing them: below. DBC expert birder and gifted artist, Denis Kania, shares his original drawings of warblers in our area that you have a good chance of seeing from below, i.e., no waterthrushes or ground-skulking Connecticuts. Images from throat to undertail of both males and females are featured. This Part 1 video deals with the subset of warblers that has some amount of streaking on the underparts. Denis breaks them into two smaller groups—1) those with plenty of streaking with yellow and 2) those with plenty of streaking but little or no yellow. He then reviews the more subtle distinctions species by species in each group. Here are the warbler species covered in each group: Streaking with yellow: Yellow, Magnolia, Blackburnian, Yellow-throated, Palm, Prairie, Cape May, Pine, Northern Parula, and Canada. Streaking with little or no yellow: Ovenbird, Black-and-white, Blackpoll, Cerulean, Yellow-rumped, and Black-throated Green. Make your "warbler neck" experiences more worthwhile with this tutorial and a little patience and practice. For more on birds and birding in DuPage County, visit https://www.dupagebirding.org​.
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As meetings and field trips have been altered for the short term due to Covid-19 the Board offers a way to connect with you and enrich your birding experience via Mini-tutorials. Visit the DuPage Birding Club YouTube channel  at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEilyuewO86Cds5CoA7-GcQ
As meetings and field trips have been altered for the short term due to Covid-19 the Board offers a way to connect with you and enrich your birding experience via Mini-tutorials. 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!