In just one night, more than a thousand migrating birds died after crashing into a single building in Chicago, due to what experts say was a deadly combination of migration season, difficult weather, and a lack of 'bird-friendly' building measures.
The Chicago Field Museum collected more than a thousand dead birds that had collided with the McCormick Place Lakeside Center, a convention center located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Wednesday night into Thursday morning, Annette Prince, director of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, told CNN.Volunteers working with Chicago Bird Collision Monitors collected an additional thousand dead birds from the city's downtown area, said Prince.
McCormick Place cited 'unusual weather conditions during the peak of the Fall 2023 migration season in the city coupled with avian confusion that comes from light emanating from buildings,' in a statement acknowledging the deaths of 'an extremely large number of migratory birds.''The well-being of migratory birds is of high importance to us, and we are truly saddened by this incident,' the statement reads.
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