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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. […]
Bird Identification Without Binoculars: Part 2
The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. Joe Suchecki, The Springbrook Birder, brings us part two of his introduction to birding by ear-identifying birds by listening to their songs, calls, chip notes, and non-vocal sounds. Sounds travel far, and tuning into them will allow you to identify a lot more bird species, including those that look similar to each other, and those that skulk in hard-to-see-places. With about 250 species appearing in our area, Joe prevents you from feeling overwhelmed and gets you started in methods for learning to open your ears and […]