The DBC’s first photo contest was a great success with 45 entries submitted! Twenty DBC members sent in pictures that ranged from backyard birds to birds from far-away lands like Thailand, Jamaica, and Antarctica. DBC’s Winter Photography Winners
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If you’re a beginning birder and want to learn how to look at a bird to remember what you’re seeing, look no further! On the DBC Education Channel, Denis Kania reviews basic bird identification skills, with plenty of useful images to demonstrate his points, in a new video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTn6n372iXY.
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If you are a member of the DuPage Birding Club in good standing and are a beginning birder, the DBC is offering you an opportunity to learn more about birds and increase your birding ID skills. As a service to its members, the Club is initiating a free course for beginning birders taught by DuPage County birders Denis Kania and Joe Suchecki. The Club-sponsored course will provide beginning birders with information, resources, and tips on how to become a better birder, find more birds, and hopefully increase the joys of birding for you. The class will cover topics such as:
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The DuPage Birding Club is proud to announce the Outreach Programs for the first quarter. Topics include Helping Birds in Your Own Backyard, Beginning Birdwatching (in English and Spanish), Attracting Hummingbirds and Perils of Bird Migration. For additional program information and registration details go to the Learn About Birds/Outreach.
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The DuPage Birding Club is proud to announce its first bird photography contest! The DBC is looking for pictures of birds taken between December 1, 2021 and February 28, 2022. Photographs will be judged by a small team of DBC members. All photos are welcome: amateur, funny, imperfect, high-quality. The “story behind the shot” will be taken into account when judging. The judges want this to be a fun contest; no categories have been defined for award-winners so every entry has a chance to win! The contest is open to DBC members only. Photos may be taken anywhere (not just
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Volunteers for the 2021 Greene Valley Hawkwatch logged 1883 hours and spotted 89 species of birds in this 16th annual survey of migrating hawks and other birds. Highlights included four flyover Whooping Cranes and a high count of 41 Red- houldered Hawks.
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On December 18, 2021, 90 birders counted every bird they could see and hear within the 15-mile circle during the 46th Fermi-Batavia CBC. Eighty-seven species were observed in the count, above our 10-year average of 84 species. We had high counts of six species and added two new species to the count: Bohemian Waxwing and Tennessee Warbler. Thank you to all the area captains and counters in making this year another successful count!
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The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. Mini-tutorial covering songbird plumage (feathers) and molt, which is the process of replacing feathers with new ones. The video establishes some basic plumage and molt vocabulary, and goes into examples of immature and mature birds and how much their appearance can change throughout a year. Some birds, like the American Redstart and Orchard Oriole, take more than a year before we see their full adult plumage. American Goldfinch, Chipping Sparrow, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, European Starling, and others are covered. NOTE: YouTube has instituted new terms of
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On October 27 at the site of the Greene Valley Hawkwatch, Erik Neidy (Director, Natural Resources Management, DuPage Forest Preserve District,) and Cindy Hedges (Stewardship Program Coordinator) presented DBC member Bob Fisher with a plaque acknowledging the many contributions he and his late wife Karen have made in support of the Forest Preserve’s goals. The surprise ceremony was attended by Scott Meister (Manager of Natural Resources) many hawkwatch volunteers, and friends of Bob from DuPage Birding Club, including President Steve Constantelos and Natalie McFaul, Vice-President. Over the last 25 years, Karen and Bob monitored birds at Waterfall Glen and
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The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. Mini-tutorial covering songbird plumage (feathers) and molt, which is the process of replacing feathers with new ones. The video establishes some basic plumage and molt vocabulary, and goes into examples of immature and mature birds and how much their appearance can change throughout a year. Some birds, like the American Redstart and Orchard Oriole, take more than a year before we see their full adult plumage. American Goldfinch, Chipping Sparrow, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, European Starling, and others are covered. For more on birds and birding in
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