The songbirds died late last week after smashing into McCormick Place Lakeside Center, a mostly glass building.
Workers at the Chicago Field Museum inspect the bodies of migrating birds that were killed when they flew into the windows of the McCormick Place Lakeside Center.Workers at the Chicago Field Museum inspect the bodies of migrating birds that were killed when they flew into the windows of the McCormick Place Lakeside Center.Nearly 1,000 birds died late last week after flying into a Chicago convention center during their migratory journey south.
"In one night we had a year's worth of death," he told NPR, noting that typically, between 1,000 and 2,000 birds die each year from flying into the building.Before getting to work on Thursday morning, Stotz saw what he described as"clouds of birds" in the sky. "October is always one of our busiest times of year," Annette Prince, the director of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, told NPR.
Light reduction, especially during key migratory times, can reduce the number of birds that die when flying through urban areas.
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