Level up your birding-by-ear skills and you will 1) identify birds more quickly and accurately, 2) detect more species, and 3) literally double your enjoyment of the pastime. We’re not kidding! You can sharpen your skills right now for all those newly arrived summer residents by tapping into resources on the DBC Education Channel and through Bird Conservation Network (BCN) resources.
At the DBC Education Channel, you’ll find five birding-by-ear tutorials authored by our own Joe Suchecki:
Thrushes
Empidonax flycatchers
Vireos
Woodpeckers
Grassland birds
To explore other DBC learning resources, visit www.youtube.com/dupagebirdingclub.
The Bird Conservation Network has created easy-to-use resources to help volunteer monitors hone their skills at identifying our breeding birds by ear. These resources are also available to anyone with a desire to learn. The first is a one-hour Birding-by-Ear Tutorial led by DBC members Vicky Sroczynski and Bob Fisher.
The second is a series of four workbooks organized by habitat type in which the breeding birds are likely to be found. Each species listed has a link to a page on the Xeno-Canto website where you can play the song/call and learn more. The guides cover 140 species of birds in the BCN database that have been recorded in our area during nesting season.
Download the PDF files here:
+BCN Grassland Bird Vocalizations 1.0
+BCN Shrubland Bird Vocalizations 1.0
+BCN Wetland Bird Vocalizations 1.0
+BCN Woodland Bird Vocalizations 1.0
Tap these resources to enhance your enjoyment of birding and see more birds!