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Mini-Tutorial: Leucistic Bird Plumage
The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. What is that strange-looking bird in my yard? It could be a leucistic bird of a species you know quite well! This mini-tutorial covers leucistic bird plumage-a genetic mutation causing some feathers to appear white or frosted instead of their usual color. Sometimes all feathers are affected, but often it’s in a symmetrical, blotchy fashion. This fascinating rare phenomenon can affect all kinds of birds and makes for some tricky identifications. Get some practice reading ID clues with this video. The difference between leucistic and albino […]
2021 Spring Bird Count – May 8th
The annual Spring Bird Count will take place across Illinois on Saturday, May 8, 2021. The DuPage Birding Club organizes participation in the count for DuPage County. Expect additional information on the DBC website and in the April edition of Drummings. Joe Suchecki will again organize and compile the count for the club.
Mini-Tutorial: Snow Bunting, Longspurs, & the Horned Lark
The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. Mini-tutorial covering some birds you might find along the more open, rural DuPage County roadsides in winter: Snow Bunting, Lapland Longspur, and an all-year resident species, the Horned Lark. Smith’s Longspur is also covered, although they are seldom seen in our area. Found in sites with a lot of wide open space, like agricultural fields or prairies, learn to distinguish these birds based on bill shape, facial and other markings, and coloration (which can be hard to distinguish from a distance on a chill, gray winter’s […]