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YouTube Tutorial: Checklist of the Birds of DuPage County
The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. This week we launch the mini-tutorial about the sixth edition of The Checklist of the Birds of DuPage County. The checklist features 268 species of birds observed regularly in DuPage. Presented here by its creator, Denis Kania, the checklist indicates abundance of each species by season and which birds breed here. The list has some new additions and some species that have dropped off the list, and some are just hanging on. Get out and look for them all, and tabulate your findings, with the help of […]
YouTube Tutorial: Osprey in DuPage County
The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. This week we launch the mini-tutorial about the Osprey in DuPage County. After an absence of more than 60 years, the Osprey returned to DuPage County in the early 2000s. And now, Fermilab is home to three of their nesting sites. Denis Kania relates the history of all three, plus the possibilities of finding more Osprey nests in the county. As meetings and field trips have been canceled for the short term due to the Covid-19 quarantine the Board offers a way to connect with you and […]
A Rare Migration Fallout
DBC member Jeff Reiter’s June 23rd column in the Daily Herald and his Words on Birds Blog shares the excitement of the May 15 fallout of migrating birds this spring in his own yard. In his column he describes the fallout in his yard and throughout the region after a heavy rain. If not for the Covid-19 stay-at-home order he would have missed this rare migration fallout. Reading this column is a nice reminder of how rare and special this day was.