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  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. Images from throat to undertail of both males and females are featured. This Part 2 video deals with the subset of warblers that lack streaking on their underparts. Denis breaks them into two smaller groups—1) unstreaked birds with a lot of yellow on their […]

  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)

  The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. Joe Suchecki, The Springbrook Birder, brings us part two of his introduction to birding by ear—identifying birds by listening to their songs, calls, chip notes, and non-vocal sounds. Sounds travel far, and tuning into them will allow you to identify a lot more bird species, including those that look similar to each other, and those that skulk in hard-to-see-places. With about 250 species appearing in our area, Joe prevents you from feeling overwhelmed and gets you started in methods for learning to open your ears and

  The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. Joe Suchecki, The Springbrook Birder, returns with a two-part mini-tutorial on birding by ear—identifying birds by listening to their songs, calls, chip notes, and non-vocal sounds. Each bird species has its own unique set of sounds. Learn some basics about bird communication and the difference between a song and a call, including examples from the American Robin and Bobolink. Then tune in for part two, coming soon! For more on birds and birding in DuPage County, visit https://www.dupagebirding.org​. As meetings and field trips have been altered

  The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. Mini-tutorial on getting better acquainted with your binoculars. Selecting binoculars is a series of trade-offs that depends on the type of birding you’d like to do, comfort, and budget. Denis Kania explains binocular specifications, including magnification and objective lens and their 1:5 ratio “sweet spot.” In a comparison of images, he explains how these characteristics interact and how your field of view shrinks as you increase magnification. He moves on to an important tip for eyeglass wearers and tells you how to set your binoculars’ diopter