Almost 1,000 migrating songbirds have perished after smashing into windows at an exhibition center on Chicago's lakefront.
In this image provided by the Chicago Field Museum, the bodies of migrating birds are displayed, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, at the Chicago Field Museum, in Chicago. The birds were killed when they flew into the windows of the McCormick Place Lakeside Center, a Chicago exhibition hall, the night of Oct. 4-5. According to the Chicago Audubon Society, nearly 1,000 birds migrating south during the night grew confused by the exhibition center's lights and collided with the building.
“A normal night would be zero to 15 birds. It was just kind of a shocking outlier to what we've experienced," Willard said."In 40 years of keeping track of what's happening at McCormick, we've never seen anything remotely on that scale." “Unfortunately, it is really common,” said Matt Igleski, executive director of the Chicago Audubon Society. “We see this in pretty much every major city during spring and fall migration. This was a very catastrophic single event, but when you add it all up , it's always like that.”
“You had all these birds that were just raring to go but they’ve been held up with this weird September and October with temperatures way above normal,” Temple said. “You had this huge pack of birds take off.” New York City has taken to shutting off the twin beams of light symbolizing the World Trade Center for periods of time during its annual Sept. 11 memorial ceremony to, an effort to encourage urban centers to turn off or dim lights during migration months. Nearly 50 U.S. and Canadian cities have joined the movement, including Toronto, New York, Boston, San Diego, Dallas and Miami.
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