Bright lights in Chicago confused migrating songbirds flying south for the winter, with nearly 1,000 colliding with the windows of the city's McCormick Place convention center and dying as a result.
In this image provided by the Chicago Field Museum, workers at the Chicago Field Museum inspect the bodies of migrating birds, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, in Chicago, that were killed when they flew into the windows of the McCormick Place …The collisions happened Thursday, and the dead specimens were collected by the city’s Field Museum, which said on X that it was the most birds they have documented after such an event in 40 years.
Weather conditions exacerbated the issue. Birds wait for ideal conditions to move en masse, and warm southern winds kept birds in place, building up a larger crowd to eventually move when conditions were right on Wednesday night. However, the building is one of many posing a problem. Volunteer conservationists with the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors posted on X that they had found another 1,000 dead birds in the rest of
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