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 underparts and 2) unstreaked birds with buffy underparts, strong coloration on their flanks, or other unique traits. He then reviews the more subtle distinctions species by species, breaking them into further sub-groups. Here are the warbler species covered in each group: Unstreaked with plenty of yellow: Blue-winged, Prothonotary, Hooded, Nashville, Kentucky, Common Yellowthroat, and Wilson's. Unstreaked with no yellow or a more olive-yellow yellow: Worm-eating, Bay-breasted, Black-throated Blue, Chestnut-sided, American Redstart, Golden-winged, Orange-crowned, and Tennessee. Make your "warbler neck" experiences more worthwhile with this tutorial and a little patience and practice. For more on birds and birding in DuPage County, visit https://www.dupagebirding.org​.
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