#bird migration

How a Simple Method Changed a "Bird Killer" Building in Chicago

From this article in the New York Times:

A call went out to volunteers across the city: Be ready to hit the streets early to rescue the injured and document the dead. But at the building that has long been the city’s most notorious bird killer, a sprawling lakefront conference venue that claimed almost a thousand birds on a single day in October 2023, new protections were in place. The vast glass windows and doors of the building, called Lakeside Center at McCormick Place, are overlaid with a pattern of close, opaque dots. Applied last summer to help birds perceive the glass, the treatment’s early results are nothing short of remarkable. During fall migration, deaths were down by about 95 percent when compared with the two previous autumns. Now monitoring is underway during the first spring migration since the dots, with implications for glassy structures far beyond Chicago. Across North America, with Toronto an early leader, a growing number of bird-friendly policies and decisions by individual building managers are helping make cities safer for birds.

La migration de l'oie des neiges

Snow geese migration

A landing site for waterfowl.

#WILD GEESE IN A SOUTHWARD DIRECTION🪶🌞🪶💙🪶🧭