Nancy Allured

Check out DBC member Jeff Reiter’s April 2020, columns in The Daily Herald at http://wordsonbirds.blogspot.com/. In the first one, Jeff focuses on a pair of Peregrine Falcons that roost in Kane County.  Fellow DBC member Vernon LaVia has been watching this pair for the last 7 years and is hopeful they’ll nest in the roost box he built for them atop the 22-story Leland Tower in downtown Aurora. In the second article, Jeff speaks to the annual spring migration show and how your very own backyard can deliver a great show.

The DBC Board has been looking for ways to serve the membership in the absence of our regular meetings and field trips, all postponed due to the Covid-19 quarantine.  To that end, we are pleased to launch the DuPage Birding Club YouTube Channel to deliver relevant video content. Our goal is to provide a way to connect with you and enrich your birding experience. We’re tapping the expertise of DBC President Denis Kania, who will record a range of mini-tutorials to provide bird identification strategies for challenging birds, tips for using our checklist, understanding parts of a bird, and more. 

Are you wondering how you might do more to help conserve bird species in the Chicago area?  How about becoming a bird monitor? The Bird Conservation Network (BCN) conducts a breeding bird survey during the month of June throughout the six-county Chicagoland area.  We’re looking for birders who would like to join our team and help measure how our bird populations are doing. Required are two early-morning visits in June to a preserve near you. More about the survey is here: http://bcnbirds.org/monprotocol.html What:         Introduction to Breeding-Bird Monitor Training and; Winging it with Waterfowl Training Who:          New and Experienced

  DBC member and Daily Herald columnist Jeff Reiter recaps the joys, disappointments, and surprises Chicagoland birding offered in 2019. As Jeff said in his annual review “The 2019 birding year wasn’t boring.” He reviews and reminds us of some of the most interesting rarities and birding events from the last year. Jeff Reiter’s full column is at his Words on Birds blog and the newspaper column about birds, birding and birders, in the Daily Herald (west suburban Chicago) on January 3rd.