Chicago's McCormick Place convention center has installed special window film designed to prevent bird strikes after nearly 1,000 birds died in a single night last year. The film features tiny white dots that make the glass more visible to birds, breaking up reflections that can be mistaken for open sky.
One of Chicago 's landmark buildings is sporting a new look just in time for bird migration season.After an especially deadly bird strike last year, officials at Chicago 's biggest convention complex have covered thousands of square feet of windows with film designed to keep birds away.What makes the oldest and easternmost building of the McCormick Place Convention Center Complex so beautiful is also what makes it so deadly for birds."We've been working on it for decades.
"Because of the building's massive size and all that glass, the $1.2 million project is the biggest bird strike mitigation effort in the world."So if you think about two football fields, that's the glass we have here at Lakeside Center, so it's a lot of glass, a lot of space to cover," said McCafferty.The film is designed to make the dots less visible from inside the building looking out, and more visible from outside looking in.
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