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SAVE THE DATE: Christmas Bird Count on December 14

Join us again for the annual Fermi Christmas Bird Count on December 16th. This is your chance to contribute to an important community science opportunity. Data collected provides invaluable insights into winter bird populations plus it's a great opportunity to connect with fellow birders. If you participated last year, you're already on the list and will be contacted in early December regarding your counting areas. If it's been a few years, or you are new to the count and would like to participate, please contact the compiler, Jeff Chapman at jeffchapman948@gmail.com. Remember you'll be grouped with a team so no need to be an expert; there will be plenty of them on your team! This year's countdown dinner is TBD at this point.

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In the News: John Cebula profiled in “Catching Nature”

The DuPage Forest Preserve recently profiled DBC member and 2021 speaker John Cebula in its “Catching Nature” series of people who have found ways to engage with nature in interesting ways.  John shares how DuPage Forest Preserves support his lifelong interest in nature, the changes in our preserves he has seen over the last decades, and the perspective it has given him-nature’s lessons and how nature inspires.  Read it here: https://www.dupageforest.org/catching-nature/john-cebula

Mini-Tutorial: Warblers From Below, Part 1

  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, i.e., no waterthrushes or ground-skulking Connecticuts. Images from throat to undertail of both males and females are featured. This Part 1 video deals with the subset of warblers that has some amount of streaking on the underparts. Denis breaks them into two smaller groups-1) […]

Upcoming Outreach Presentation: Gardening for Birds and Butterflies

Woodridge Library (Virtual event) May 20, 2021, 7:00-8:00 PM by John Cebula. You don’t need to travel around the country (or even around the county) to see a large variety of birds and butterflies. John Cebula, educator, writer, and naturalist from the DuPage Birding Club, has seen dozens of species of birds and butterflies without leaving the backyard of his own Glen Ellyn home! John will share what you can do to attract these beautiful, beneficial creatures to your own garden. He will also explain why it is so important that homeowners and communities consciously make landscaping decisions that enhance the appeal of their properties to wildlife. […]
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