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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 […]

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 […]