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DBC Meeting: Dixon Waterfowl Refuge with Peter Goodspeed
The January 9, 2025 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured "Sue and Wes Dixon Waterfowl Refuge at Hennepin & Hopper Lakes" with Peter Goodspeed, Restoration Program Director at The Wetlands Initiative (TWI).
Peter recently joined TWI after serving as Director of Natural Resources with the Champaign County Forest Preserve District. His presentation focused on the history and process of ecological restoration at the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge, more-recent land additions and conservation projects at the site, and the rich biodiversity it supports.
Named for the hundreds of thousands of migratory waterfowl that visit the lakes in spring and fall, the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge is a popular birding destination with a checklist of 280 species.
In 2001, TWI began restoring Hennepin & Hopper Lakes in north-central Illinois along the Illinois River, transforming it from drained farmland back to high-quality native ecosystems. Today, the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge is a 3,000-plus-acre natural treasure containing more than a dozen rare, highly diverse habitat types. The Refuge is designated as a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance, and its large trail system is open to the public 365 days a year.
For more on Dixon Waterfowl Refuge and The Wetlands Initiative, visit these links:
www.wetlands-initiative.org/dixon-waterfowl-refuge-hh
www.wetlands-initiative.org/
For more on birds and birding in DuPage County, visit www.dupagebirding.org.
NOTE: UA-cam has instituted terms of service and is now occasionally running ads on DBC videos. Please note that the club is not gaining any revenue from these ads, nor do we endorse the products appearing in these ads.
Peter recently joined TWI after serving as Director of Natural Resources with the Champaign County Forest Preserve District. His presentation focused on the history and process of ecological restoration at the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge, more-recent land additions and conservation projects at the site, and the rich biodiversity it supports.
Named for the hundreds of thousands of migratory waterfowl that visit the lakes in spring and fall, the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge is a popular birding destination with a checklist of 280 species.
In 2001, TWI began restoring Hennepin & Hopper Lakes in north-central Illinois along the Illinois River, transforming it from drained farmland back to high-quality native ecosystems. Today, the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge is a 3,000-plus-acre natural treasure containing more than a dozen rare, highly diverse habitat types. The Refuge is designated as a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance, and its large trail system is open to the public 365 days a year.
For more on Dixon Waterfowl Refuge and The Wetlands Initiative, visit these links:
www.wetlands-initiative.org/dixon-waterfowl-refuge-hh
www.wetlands-initiative.org/
For more on birds and birding in DuPage County, visit www.dupagebirding.org.
NOTE: UA-cam has instituted terms of service and is now occasionally running ads on DBC videos. Please note that the club is not gaining any revenue from these ads, nor do we endorse the products appearing in these ads.
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DBC Meeting: A Closer Look at Gull Identification with Amar Ayyash
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The November 14, 2024 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured "A Closer Look at Gull Identification" with Amar Ayyash, Chicagoland resident gull expert and author of "The Gull Guide," published by the Princeton University Press. Amar is an expert on the gulls of North America and an evangelist for "gull recreation." He coordinates the Illinois Ornithological Society’s Annual Gull Frolic on ...
DBC Meeting: Red-headed Woodpeckers with Addy Yoder
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The October 10, 2024 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured "Red-headed Woodpeckers and the Importance of Oak Systems" with Adriana Yoder, a Ph.D. student at University of Missouri in St. Louis. Addy started her ongoing research at DePaul University two years ago studying Red-headed Woodpeckers and oak reproduction in the Chicagoland region. For this research, she was awarded an Illinois O...
DBC Meeting: "Illinois Peregrines: Back from the Brink?" with Mary Hennen
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The September 12, 2024 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured "Illinois Peregrines: Back from the Brink?" with Mary Hennen. Mary is Assistant Collections Manager of Birds at the Field Museum and Director of the Chicago Peregrine Program. She is the author of a beautiful, illustrated book called "The Peregrine Returns: The Art and Architecture of an Urban Raptor Recovery." Once on the Endan...
DBC Meeting: "Recovery of Eastern Whip-poor-wills in the Midwest" with Dr. Mike Ward
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The July 11, 2024 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured Dr. Mike Ward presenting "Bird Is the Word: Waterbird Research in Illinois and Beyond." Dr. Ward is currently the Stuart L. and Nancy J. Levenick Chair in Sustainability at the University of Illinois and an Ornithologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey. He conducts research on avian ecology and conservation throughout the Midw...
DBC Meeting: "Gems of the Air: Hummingbirds" with Denis Kania
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The May 9, 2024 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured Denis Kania presenting "Gems of the Air: Hummingbirds." Denis is a founding member and past president of the DuPage Birding Club, creator of many of our UA-cam videos, and hummingbird aficionado. Denis has always been fascinated with hummingbirds. They exhibit behaviors unparalleled in the bird world. They have unique flight abilities,...
DBC Meeting: Migratory Bird Protection and Rescue, with Annette Prince.
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The April 11, 2024 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured Annette Prince presenting "Chicago Bird Collision Monitors-Protecting our Migrant Birds from a Deadly Threat." Annette is Director of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors (CBCM). CBCM is an all-volunteer bird conservation project that protects and recovers birds injured or killed in window collisions in downtown Chicago during spring and...
DBC Meeting: Members' Night 2024
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The March 14th, 2024 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured...our members! Sit back and enjoy all the photos and stories from our annual Members' Night, including... Here's the lineup of seven presenters: Birding in Vietnam: Start Birds of Colombia: 12:05 Birding Brazil's North Pantanal: 20:58 Birding New Zealand (with a somewhat difficult to hear discussion of albatrosses at the end): 36:...
DBC Meeting: The Endangered Beauty of the Midwest: Indiana's Barn Owl, with Grace LeCuyer
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The October 12, 2023 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured Grace LeCuyer presenting "The Endangered Beauty of the Midwest: Indiana's Barn Owl." Grace is Raptor Survey Coordinator for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Barn Owls are some of the most majestic, yet secretive, raptors out there. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has developed a nest box program aimed at as...
DBC Meeting: Waterbird Research in Illinois and Beyond with Joshua Osborn
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The September 14, 2023 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured Joshua Osborn presenting "Bird Is the Word: Waterbird Research in Illinois and Beyond." Josh is Waterbird Ecology Facilities Manager at Forbes Biological Station (FBS) in Havana, Illinois. Josh's research interests include wetland and waterbird ecology, focusing on habitat management at mid-migration and southern latitudes in pa...
DBC Meeting: Waterfowl and Waterbird Monitoring in Western Lake Michigan with Bill Mueller
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The July 13th, 2023 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured Bill Mueller presenting "Offshore and Nearshore Waterfowl and Waterbird Monitoring in Western Lake Michigan." Have you ever wondered what kinds of birds life far off the Lake Michigan shores? Bill Mueller, Director Emeritus of the Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory (WGLBBO), conducted offshore and nearshore waterfowl surv...
DBC Meeting: Foot Stamping and Booming: Our Illinois Prairie Chickens with Bob Gillespie
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The May 11th, 2023 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured Bob Gillespie presenting "Foot Stamping and Booming: Our Illinois Prairie Chickens." Did you know there is only one site in the state of Illinois that supports Greater Prairie-Chickens? Prairie Ridge SNA in Jasper County is a unique site that offers scientists and birders alike a chance to see this rare and state-endangered species,...
DBC Meeting: Red-tailed Hawks in Illinois with Steven Burkett and Dr. Given Harper
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The April 13th, 2023 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured Illinois Wesleyan University's Steven Burkett and Dr. Given Harper presenting "Studies of Wintering Red-tailed Hawks in Illinois." This is a great chance to learn more about this ubiquitous, and celebrated, high-flyer of our skies. What is the size difference between male and female Red-tailed Hawks? Are our Red-tailed Hawks migra...
DBC Meeting: Members' Night 2023
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The March 9th, 2023 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured...our members! Sit back and enjoy all the photos and stories from our annual Members' Night, including a special Distinguished Achievement Award for one of our most treasured members. Here's the lineup of nine presenters: Let's Go to Costa Rica!: Start Costa Rica, The Going Gets Tougher Every Trip ( an award for Joe Suchecki): 13:2...
DBC Meeting: 20 Years of "Words on Birds" with Jeff Reiter
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The January 12th, 2023 meeting of the DuPage Birding Club featured longtime club member Jeff Reiter presenting "20 Years of Words on Birds," highlighting his columns for the Daily Herald and, previously, The Glen Ellyn News/Wheaton Leader. Jeff highlights birds, birding, and birders with thank-yous for those who have helped him along the way, breaking it down into six types of topics he's cover...
DBC Meeting: Minnesota's Sax-Zim Bog with Rich Hoeg
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DBC Meeting: Minnesota's Sax-Zim Bog with Rich Hoeg
DBC Meeting: The Magic Stump + The Bird Conservation Network
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DBC Meeting: The Magic Stump The Bird Conservation Network
DBC Meeting: Willowbrook Master Plan + Traveling with eBird
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DBC Meeting: Willowbrook Master Plan Traveling with eBird
DBC Meeting: Cranes of the Midwest with Stephanie Schmidt + DBC Outreach
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DBC Meeting: Cranes of the Midwest with Stephanie Schmidt DBC Outreach
Mini-Tutorial: Birding By Ear: Grassland Birds
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Mini-Tutorial: Birding By Ear: Grassland Birds
DBC Meeting: Spring Warbler Refresher and Helping Our Local Rivers
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DBC Meeting: Spring Warbler Refresher and Helping Our Local Rivers
Mini-Tutorial: Three Things To Help Birds
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Mini-Tutorial: Three Things To Help Birds
DBC Meeting: The Bald Eagle with Jack Davis (and more!)
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DBC Meeting: The Bald Eagle with Jack Davis (and more!)
Mini-Tutorial: Birding by Ear: Woodpeckers
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Mini-Tutorial: Birding by Ear: Woodpeckers
Mini-Tutorial: Basic Bird Identification
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Mini-Tutorial: Basic Bird Identification
DBC Meeting: Vultures, The Private Life of an Unloved Bird with Katie Fallon
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DBC Meeting: Vultures, The Private Life of an Unloved Bird with Katie Fallon
DBC Meeting: 21 Years of Breeding Bird Monitoring by the Bird Conservation Network
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DBC Meeting: 21 Years of Breeding Bird Monitoring by the Bird Conservation Network
DBC Meeting: Where in the World Are the Birds?
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DBC Meeting: Where in the World Are the Birds?
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Great teaching!
Very informative, I learned a lot! Thank you!
Just this morning I was having a debate on how to differentiate glaucous winged vs western gulls. I always have hard time identifying gulls. This video is godsend! Thanks 🙏
Amar's work really is inspiring, especially to those of us who have been intimidated by gull identification. We're really glad you enjoyed this video!
Enjoyed video
What a great presentation, from a true hummingbird scholar! Especially loved the story about the Brown Violetear.
Another very informative and professional presentation. Thanks for making these videos available online. Appreciate it!
Glad you tuned in!
Just spotted some Red-Breasted @ Wolf Lake in Hammond. @ 1st glance, i thought they were regular Mallards, but they were zipping across the water, diving&swimming, and making a different "non-quack" sound 😅👌🏽
Congrats on spotting them. I hope the video helped you make the correct ID.
Amazing presentation
All great presentations! Thanks!
Glad you like them! Perhaps you can share your photos next year or through one of the club photo contests!
Great content. Thanks
Excellent! Thank you for this very clear explanation
Hello Mr. Kania, nice channel. Pretty sure you've heard this already, but just in case: in Polish, 'kania' literally means 'kite', as in red kite or black kite (Milvus milvus, milvus migrans). How appropriate for an ornithologist 😉
I have been enjoying your videos. I am currently in your county for a training for work. I don’t have as much time as I’d like to be out birding during daylight hours unfortunately but I have been visiting the nearby forest preserves during my lunch hour- to walk and view birds. So far not much out there but it’s been nice regardless.
A quiet time of year, to be sure, but glad you're out in DuPage birding! Take a look at the Birding DuPage section of our website if you're looking for more ideas, or a county bird checklist. dupagebirding.org/dupage-hotspots/
@@DuPageBirdingClub great thanks so much! I’m back home in SW Wisconsin now but have another training there in June and have a few places marked that I’d like to revisit. It’s awesome how many great parks and wildlife areas you have in your area! I’m a little jealous tho- we have beautiful countryside here in my part of the state but most of the land is privately owned
Thanks for another informative video! I have been enjoying these a lot. I am in SW Wisconsin (uoper Driftless area).. I’ve only heard the wood thrush but haven’t seen one yet sadly. Brown thrashers are common on our family farm; the hermit thrush I’ve seen a few times now- super cute & shy bird! Ovenbird I’ve also seen a few times now
We're glad you're finding thrushes and similar birds near you! Keep alert for their subtle tones and colors during both migration seasons.
@@DuPageBirdingClub it’s such a quiet time for birds! Mostly what I’ve been seeing are house finches & sparrows, a few goldfinches, tons of red bellied woodpeckers, pileated, downy & hairy woodpeckers, juncos, robins, a few bluebirds (didn’t realize they stayed so long here!), and a few white throated sparrows. No winter migrants here yet and it seems all the geese have flown south. I was recently in your county and from the interstate there was one area that was so loaded with Canadian geese! There were hundreds of them! Wish I would’ve been able to easily pull over to watch them a while and attempt a count :)
Well done!
I appreciate all your videos! I am in SW Wisconsin. Not much for similar videos that are Wisconsin specific.
Would you say grosbeaks are rare?
They're certainly not common in DuPage, but in the outer areas near DuPage they're a bit more frequent. Summer is the time to look for them. You can explore sightings on eBird: ebird.org/map/blugrb1?env.minX=-88.263428&env.minY=41.686828&env.maxX=-87.913888&env.maxY=41.993833
Very informative and educational video. For me, it's been a little bit challenging to identify them since we get them in basic plumage in the summertime, but the video will help me a lot. Thank you. Warm regards from Peru!
Thanks so much for this great presentation. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thanks for this! Really enjoyed it.
The scientific names of the canada goose and cackling goose are actually Melanoleucocephalus canadensis and Melanoleucocephalus hutchinsii respectively.
I just can't 100% identify. Can I send a couple of photos for your help?
We might be able to help. If you go to our contact page and send us a note, we can send you our email address and you can send your photos. dupagebirding.org/contact/
great explanation..makes live and birding much more easier
The perfect video! It's so calming and easily educational on a rather difficult topic haha
Thank you, Jessi. We hope the calm continues when you see these fascinating birds in the field and take a shot at ID-ing them!
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I often hear summer tanagers in my yard but never see them. It's starting to get frustrating! (Arkansas)
They're few and far between up here! We're happy you're hearing them, at least.
If one of the empids respond positively to the sounds, does that mean that is its species? I know that is an open-ended question, but I have one here that perked up with #4 & #5. The baby monitor is in because we had a fallout yesterday. Very informative video!
Beautiful birds! Thanks so much for this helpful informative video! I have just rescued a luecistic house finch fledgling ♥️
We hope the fledgling did well. It's always a treat when we can keep these special leucistic birds going!
I visited this spot recently and turned left instead of right. With the sunrise, that was a mistake because the sun was in my eyes looking into the wetlands. I eventually turned back and met up with some other birders and followed them going counter clockwise. This made viewing much easier. It's definitely worth thinking of the angle of the sun when choosing when and where to bird.
It's funny, nearly all the trips we've taken there we've turned right, either instinctively or by design. An important factor to remember in early morning/late afternoon birding!
Keep up the good work! We don't have much prairie left here in Ohio. Ninety percent of our wetlands have also been destroyed.
Thanks for the comment, Ned. Illinois is mostly farmland, but up north some tiny prairie spots remain thanks to gaps in suburban development and private landowners. Let's hope both IL and OH continue to preserve and restore what's left!
Very helpful, I was just researching Wrens, as I’m travelling from the UK to Ontario later this week, for a birding trip 👍🏻
Fantastic! Enjoy our neighbors to the north!
Helpful. Thanks
A truly awesome series for the serious warbler fan. So often we see them from below and this is a practical analysis that gives you the tools to figure out what you are seeing. Thank you, Denis, for making your detailed drawings. Excellent!
Really terrific, Joe!
Very informative. Thanks!
How amazing this is. Thank you for sharing.
Very helpful! I’m in Tennessee and we have these five species too, though some are just passing by.
We're glad you enjoyed the video. So many warblers just pass through our area, but we're pretty lucky when it comes to residency and other "w" birds, the wrens and woodpeckers!
How I wish I'd had this tutorial when I was a beginning birder! This video is excellent for the casual backyard birder or anyone who wants to increase their enjoyment in watching birds.
Such a wonderfully practical tutorial! Being able to give good directions to get on a bird is a very useful skill, and one that your birding friends will greatly appreciate.
I have a lesser drake show up on my pond, 3/6/22, in the low country of SC 29431. He's hanging out with my Muscovy ducks
Katie thank you for your work and research I enjoyed your presentation!
Great presentation! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it pcliff. 2022's off to a great start!
Thank you for this tutorial. I live well outside the normal range of Harris sparrow, but without doubt spotted one yesterday, mixed with a group of white-/goldcrowns. It's a very striking bird, and clearly not a house sparrow!! Thanks again: I'll be taking a closer look at that flock
We're a bit out their range here too, but they do show up for some excitement now and then. We're glad you found one! One of the joys of winter birding: taking close looks at big flocks for unusual birds.
Well done, thanks
Really enjoy your short videos. Thanks,!
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful presentation. Thanks.
This video, the instructor, and the channel are fabulous. What a phenomenal resource!
So glad you're enjoying all the videos, Michelle! And this one happens to feature two of our admin's favorite birds.
@@DuPageBirdingClub I learned from one of the videos about looking for the orange feet of the Blackpoll warbler. The next day, I see a warbler slipping through a pokeweed plant out back and go out and cinch the ID with the orange feet. Then I see the same or another in my nearby swamp patch.Thrilling - thank you!
@@michellesutton8372 Great to hear Michelle. It is pretty amazing that once you learn what to look for, you start seeing it in real life! Blackpolls are a welcome sight this time of year; we hope the season has a few warblers left for you before winter!
This video was fantastic. I often find myself lending out a spare pair of binoculars to friends who havent done much birding, and this is a constant challenge. I will sometimes use pointing for a distant bird, but to do so requires us to stand next to each other, and to have our heads very close together and looking in the same direction, so they can actually look down the end of my arm, past my pointed finger, and follow it to where I'm pointing at. Last year during a Christmas bird count, while straining to see a skulky LeConte's sparrow in dense grass, our crew leader did something that left me speechless. Don't try this with a bird that is very close... you may scare it with all the moving around. He looked right at the bird, had me stand directly behind him, and told me to point my binoculars at the back of his head. Once I did so, he bent over (I suppose in a more fragile situation you could take a quiet step to the side) and right where I was looking, where the back of his head had been, was a LeConte's sparrow. it was like a magic trick.
This channel is fantastic. Every video.
Thanks! 😃