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For years, McCormick Place Lakeside in Chicago was a deadly hotspot for migrating birds, with its glass façade contributing to countless collisions. After a tragic mass collision event in October 2023, building managers knew they had to act. They partnered with Feather Friendly® to install bird-friendly dot patterns across nearly two football fields’ worth of glass, a major step toward preventing future tragedies.

Now, longtime bird monitor David Willard reports a dramatic drop in bird collisions … Continue

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New analyses using more than 36 million observations from birders have revealed the most detailed view ever on population trends of birds across the continent. These new tools developed by the Cornell Lab are providing managers with a blueprint to identify where to focus conservation investments, that scientists say was sorely lacking. While the news that many species are declining the most in areas where they should be thriving, this research is pointing the way forward.

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Each year, over a billion birds die after colliding with glass they can’t see. But what if we could change that? In this video, we take you inside a specialized flight tunnel at Western University in London, Ontario, where researchers are testing window treatments designed to make glass visible to birds. Using live birds in carefully controlled experiments, the team evaluates which glass markers are most effective … Continue