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The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. This week Hummingbird aficionado, Denis Kania, shares his love and wisdom about these miraculous birds. After a world perspective, we delve into our Midwestern species, the Ruby-throated Hummingbird: how to attract them, food sources, favorite plants, mixing nectar for them, cleaning your feeder, mortality, courtship, and nesting. For an expanded version of this mini-tutorial, complete with Q&A visit: https://youtu.be/howrPH506qY. This was recorded by the Wheaton Public Library on August 5, 2020. As meetings and field trips have been altered for the short term due to the Covid-19 […]

The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. This week Denis Kania guides us through evaluating the bill color, length, thickness, and curvature to help with an ID and give us insight into how birds live. Starting with a comparison of the ground finches of the Galapagos, Denis takes us through many families of DuPage birds, reminding us of why we should keep our eyes on the beak (or bill) of the bird! As meetings and field trips have been altered for the short term due to the Covid-19 the Board offers a way to

The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. This week Denis Kania guides us through the five plovers, big and small, that can be found in DuPage County: Black-bellied Plover, Semipalmated Plover, American Golden-Plover, Piping Plover, and Killdeer. Get to know the close shorebird relatives of Chicago’s famous plover parents, Monty & Rose, in this mini-tutorial. As meetings and field trips have been altered for the short term due to the Covid-19 the Board offers a way to connect with you and enrich your birding experience. Several Mini-tutorials are live and focus on: The updated

The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. This week we launch the Mini-tutorial describing 10 steps you can take to become a more efficient birder, or how to avoid the pitfalls we birders can fall into! Presented by Denis Kania. As meetings and field trips have been altered for the short term due to the Covid-19 the Board offers a way to connect with you and enrich your birding experience. Several Mini-tutorials are live and focus on: The updated checklist of birds in DuPage; the return of Ospry in DuPage; the Tanagers; Hairy vs.

The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. This week we launch the mini-tutorial demonstrating how to distinguish between four wading shorebird species: the Lesser Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs, Stilt Sandpiper, and Ruff. Presented by Denis Kania. As meetings and field trips have been altered for the short term due to the Covid-19 the Board offers a way to connect with you and enrich your birding experience. Several Mini-tutorials are live and focus on: The updated checklist of birds in DuPage; the return of Ospry in DuPage; the Tanagers; Hairy vs. Downy Woodpeckers; Pine Warbler vs.

The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. This week we launch the mini-tutorial about the Five “Peeps” or sandpipers of DuPage. Identify Baird’s, Least, White-rumped, Semipalmated, and Western Sandpiper by noting relative size, leg color, how far their wings extend, and more. Presented by Denis Kania. As meetings and field trips have been altered for the short term due to the Covid-19 the Board offers a way to connect with you and enrich your birding experience. Several Mini-tutorials are live and focus on: The updated checklist of birds in DuPage; the return of Ospry

The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. This week we launch the mini-tutorial about the sixth edition of The Checklist of the Birds of DuPage County. The checklist features 268 species of birds observed regularly in DuPage. Presented here by its creator, Denis Kania, the checklist indicates abundance of each species by season and which birds breed here. The list has some new additions and some species that have dropped off the list, and some are just hanging on. Get out and look for them all, and tabulate your findings, with the help of