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DuPage Birding Club invites all members to join us for our annual Birding and Breakfast event on Saturday, August 5, at Blackwell Forest Preserve.  After some morning birding around the forest preserve, DBC will serve breakfast to all attendees. Meet at 7 AM at the South Shelter. After turning in to Blackwell off of Butterfield Road continue North on the main drive about a quarter of a mile. Make the first right at the South Shelter sign and meet in the parking lot. If you are interested in attending, please send an email to mwarner2543@gmail.com . We hope to see […]

Want to help birds in a big way? Join other birding enthusiasts who dedicate time monitoring our breeding birds each breeding season, adding to two-plus decades of a valuable dataset essential to land managers and researchers.  Our breeding birds truly are “the canaries in the coal mine.” The Bird Conservation Network (BCN) is actively recruiting new monitors for its annual BCN Survey. DBC is a BCN member and a funding sponsor of BCN’s recently published 22-year analysis of breeding birds in Chicagoland. This important community science project relies on birders with sufficient experience to record evidence of species presence during the […]

Announcing DBC’s Winter 2023 Photography ContestWinners! Announcing DBC’s Winter 2023 Photography ContestWinners! Announcing DBC’s Winter 2023 Photography ContestWinners! The DBC’s Winter 2023 photo contest winners are official! The 42 entries were judged by John Hebert, Andie Duffy, Steve Constantelos, Natalie McFaul, and Mike Warner. Because of the quality of all the submissions, the committee had a very tough time deciding on which pictures to recognize. The committee wants to thank all the photographers for their entries. Go to Winter ’23 Photo Contest Winners to see all the winning images and the stories behind them. Go to Members Photo Gallery to […]