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The DBC is looking for pictures of birds taken between June 1 and August 31, 2023. All photos are welcome: amateur, funny, imperfect, high-quality. The “story behind the shot” is also taken into account when judging. The judges want this to be a fun contest; no categories have been predefined for award winners so every entry has a chance to win! NOTE: The judges usually do not give out more than one award to the same author if they submit multiple images. If you would like to look at past DBC Photo Contest winners CLICK HERE. The contest is open […]

  Best of Show – Caspian Tern, photo by Mark Levesque The DBC’s Spring ’23 photo contest was a great success! The 20 entries were judged by John Hebert, Andie Duffy, Steve Constantelos, Natalie McFaul, and Mike Warner. Because of the variety and quality of the submissions, the committee had a very tough time deciding on which pictures to recognize; the committee would like to thank all the photographers for their entries. Go to Spring ’23 Photo Contest Winners to see all the winning images and the stories behind them. Go to Members Photo Gallery to see the winning photos

DuPage Birding Club invites all members to join us for our annual Birding and Breakfast event on Saturday, August 5, at Blackwell Forest Preserve.  After some morning birding around the forest preserve, DBC will serve breakfast to all attendees. Meet at 7 AM at the South Shelter. After turning in to Blackwell off of Butterfield Road continue North on the main drive about a quarter of a mile. Make the first right at the South Shelter sign and meet in the parking lot. If you are interested in attending, please send an email to mwarner2543@gmail.com . We hope to see

Want to help birds in a big way? Join other birding enthusiasts who dedicate time monitoring our breeding birds each breeding season, adding to two-plus decades of a valuable dataset essential to land managers and researchers.  Our breeding birds truly are “the canaries in the coal mine.” The Bird Conservation Network (BCN) is actively recruiting new monitors for its annual BCN Survey. DBC is a BCN member and a funding sponsor of BCN’s recently published 22-year analysis of breeding birds in Chicagoland. This important community science project relies on birders with sufficient experience to record evidence of species presence during the

The DBC’s Winter 2023 photo contest winners are official! The 42 entries were judged by John Hebert, Andie Duffy, Steve Constantelos, Natalie McFaul, and Mike Warner. Because of the quality of all the submissions, the committee had a very tough time deciding on which pictures to recognize. The committee wants to thank all the photographers for their entries. Go to Winter ’23 Photo Contest Winners to see all the winning images and the stories behind them. Go to Members Photo Gallery to see the winning photos only.  

At the March 2023 DBC meeting, long-time member Joe Suchecki was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award in recognition of his exceptional service to the DuPage Birding Club. Joe has served on the Board in many capacities, including President and most recently Corresponding Secretary. In addition to these important roles, Joe has lent his creative and organizational talents in several other capacities, including DBC Education Channel contributions and a Beginning Birder course, managing the Spring Bird Count, championing a collaboration between the DBC and the DuPage Forest Preserve to restore a woodland understory, and orchestrating the sale of donated decoys on

The DuPage Birding Club will be sponsoring exhibits at the Gull Frolic February 18 and at Wild Things February 25. The former is the annual Winthrop Harbor gathering to search for interesting gull species and other waterfowl, while Wild Things is the semiannual conference of the Chicago Wilderness conservation community in a session-packed day covering everything from habitat management to new research to case studies and more on our wild places and the creatures who live in them. If you’d like to volunteer for staffing either one of these events, contact Natalie McFaul, Corresponding Secretary, at natcatcher7@gmail.com. We can always

Each presentation is limited to 10 minutes, so please be very selective and limit yourself to 10 to 15 images to share. We will only have time to show approximately 10 presentations. To make sure the evening goes smoothly, we ask that presenters adhere to the steps below. If you have never presented live or on Zoom, don’t let that stop you! It is actually pretty easy and we can help you through it. STEP 1 Submissions will be accepted starting on February 11. Coordinate submission with Robert Perez by email at robertperez787@gmail.com. Please include the Presenter’s Name, Presentation Title,

The DBC donated $2,000 to fund a restoration project managed by The Wetlands Initiative (TWI) from proceeds derived from the sale of the beautiful collection of decoys the family of longtime DuPage birder Craig Holderness donated to the Club in his memory. The donation will support the second year of habitat restoration at Violet Meadow, so named for the four native violet species that thrive there. Violet Meadow is part of TWI’s internationally recognized restoration site, the Sue and Wes Dixon Waterfowl Refuge in northcentral Illinois. This project focuses on restoring high-quality habitats across 292 acres in the Refuge’s northeastern

The DBC is looking for pictures of birds taken between December 1, 2022 and February 28, 2023. All photos are welcome: amateur, funny, imperfect, high-quality. The “story behind the shot” is also taken into account when judging. The judges want this to be a fun contest; no categories have been pre-defined for award-winners so every entry has a chance to win! If you would like to look at past DBC Photo Contest winners CLICK HERE. The contest is open to DBC members only. Photos may be taken anywhere (not just DuPage/Illinois). If a picture includes people, the submitter must have