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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 […]