About 1,000 birds killed after colliding into McCormick Place Lakeside Center in one 'tragic,' deadl

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In one night earlier this week, nearly 1,000 birds were killed after colliding into the McCormick Place Lakeside Center during the height of the fall migration.

“To have so many birds at one building is just devastating. That is a very tragic amount of birds to find dead at all, especially from one building,” said Annette Prince, director of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors.

Her organization tracks and collects birds that hit structures around the city. The Field Museum documents and preserves the birds that are killed.

While the number of birds that died at the Lakeside Center from Wednesday night through early Thursday morning is alarming, it’s just part of a larger danger facing migrating birds.

This is one of the busiest times of year for palm warblers, yellow-rumped warblers, white-throated sparrows and other birds passing through Chicago on their way south for the winter.

“We’re in the middle of fall migration, which reaches its height from September to October,” Prince said. “The amount of artificial lighting and glass in the city, combined with millions of birds coming each year, it’s dangerous for them.”

Prince estimates hundreds of thousands of birds are killed from hitting buildings during each migration period in Chicago.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/10/6/23906778/birds-killed-migration-collision-mccormick-place-lakeside-center

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