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"We’ve never seen anything remotely on that scale."

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, ...

David Willard has been checking the grounds of Chicago's lakefront exhibition center for dead birds for 40 years. On Thursday (Oct 5) morning he found something horrible: Hundreds of dead songbirds, so thick they looked like a carpet. Nearly 1,000 songbirds perished during the night after crashing into the

Nearly 1,000 songbirds perished during the night after crashing into the McCormick Place Lakeside Center 's windows.

Almost 1,000 migrating songbirds have perished after smashing into windows at an exhibition center on Chicago's lakefront. According to officials at the Chicago Field Museum, 964 birds were found dead Thursday at the McCormick Place Lakeside Center. David Willard, the museum's collections manager emeritus, says the most dead birds anyone has found at one time at the center in the last 40 years was around 265. Experts say conditions were optimal for songbirds to launch their annual fall nocturnal migration to Central America on Wednesday evening. Pre-dawn rain pushed them down into the city, wh...