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Daily Herald Highlights DBC Resources
Recently The Daily Herald highlighted some of the new DBC resources to improve your birding experience. These additions to the DuPage Birding Club have been recently launched to add options and knowledge to the local birders of DuPage county. The three new resources for local birders are: The DBC YouTube Education Channel 15 DuPage Birding Hotspots The newly launched DuPage County Birding Checklist. These new resources are not only of value to the DBC members but also to the entire DuPage community. Read the entire article at the Daily Herald.
YouTube Tutorial: The Beak of the Bird
The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. This week Denis Kania guides us through evaluating the bill color, length, thickness, and curvature to help with an ID and give us insight into how birds live. Starting with a comparison of the ground finches of the Galapagos, Denis takes us through many families of DuPage birds, reminding us of why we should keep our eyes on the beak (or bill) of the bird! As meetings and field trips have been altered for the short term due to the Covid-19 the Board offers a way to […]
DuPage County Checklist is Here
There is nothing like a little self-quarantine and social distancing to bring a time-consuming project to its completion. This is not an easy task so it has sat on President Denis Kania’s back burner since late 2018. For all, it will be worth the wait. This latest version is the sixth edition of a document that initially debuted in 1989. Each edition tries to capture the latest bird population trends. There have been considerable changes in populations as well as a fine-tuning of data analysis which led to this new and improved edition. We have dropped four species from the […]