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Get ready for a Big Fun Morning as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Club’s first Big Day in 2012. We will bird from 5 am (if your team wants to do some owling) and quit at noon. We will bird at ONE site. This keeps us relatively “green” by not wasting fuel and keeps us outside and avoiding carpooling, in case there’s another variant headed our way. We’ll meet for lunch afterwards at Hidden Lake – we’ve got the picnic shelter reserved all day, and plan to have food arrive by 1 pm. How can you participate?  There […]

The DuPage Birding Club is proud to announce the Outreach Programs for the second quarter. Topics include Beginning Birdwatching: The Great Backyard Bird Count, Bird Walk at Fountaindale Library, and Non-native Plant and Animal Presentation. For additional program information and registration details go to the Learn About Birds/Outreach.          

If you’re interested in helping our breeding birds, the Bird Conservation Network has a perfect opportunity. Each year, the BCN recruits monitors to conduct a survey of breeding birds in selected preserves within the Chicago Wilderness area, providing vital information for understanding the population trends of the key species that breed here. Data is used by forest preserve districts and other land managers to identify their property’s most critical preservation and restoration needs. To become a monitor, you don’t have to be an expert birder but should have at least three years of birding experience and be able to identify […]