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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, […]