Originally published at: Why did 1,000 birds die in one night last week by smashing into this Chicago building? | Boing Boing
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@pesco There’s a typo in the link to the Smithsonian article, you may want to replace it with this
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What? What’s a figurative tailwind in this context? I get the literal part.
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McCormick Place is notorious for bird deaths, more so than any other building in Chicago. Normally the lights would have been off to help prevent this type of tragedy, but preparations were underway for the Abbott Health & Fitness Expo being held the next day.
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On the subject of McCormick Place, for the love of God, Streets and San, would you please smooth out that “bump” on SB DLSD in the left two lanes, at McCormick, right before the 55 split? I swear it’s going to break an axle someday.
Please and thank you.
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I had the chance to see the Field Museum bird collections preparing the day’s collections from birds that died flying into Chicago buildings. The day I was there, there were about a 100 birds collected across downtown with ~10 from McCormick. It was amazing in a way; they get way more diversity of birds than I’d expect to be in Chicago.
We need to design buildings (and cities generally) much better to exist with the environment and species that live there.
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The weirdest ones I’ve heard of are the wild parakeets.
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Yeah, it seems like they’re trying to pass off 0 - 15 dead birds a night as trivial.
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I blame pernicious Finnish influences.
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Every now and then I still bump into some fossil-fuel lobby propaganda about the terrible bird die-offs caused by wind turbines. I always refer the people spreading the info to the numbers for building windows. Any single major US city has an astonishing number of bird-vs-window deaths, even compared to bird deaths from every wind turbine in America.
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