Major bird-window collision event in Chicago, 4-5 October 2023

The Cornell Lab ^ | 10/23 | Benjamin Van Doren and Andrew Farnsworth

[Chickensoup]

Doesn’t anyone believe in good old Darwinian evolution anymore?

[TangoLimaSierra]

Is there any way that the nationwide alert on Oct 4th could have affected the birds?

Only if they were paranoid and had their phones off.

[spirited irish]

Sad; I never heard of this before your post...

Nor did I. We enjoy birds and keep year-round feeders up for the summer and cold weather birds.

[yldstrk]

Pity they’re not tracking the millions of birds killed every year by wind farms - where they got chopped up running into the blades - and solar farms, where they catch fire flying over them.
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True.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Meanwhile, you will be pleased to know that hundreds of towering whirling windmills just outside of Chicago caused no bird deaths. None at all.

[dfwgator]

What about birds sucked into plane engines.

[napscoordinator]

Windows kill birds a million times more then windmills.

[napscoordinator]

Even though up to 1 billion birds die each year by flying into windows, no one is brushing off the tens of thousands of turbine-related deaths every year.

[P.O.E.]

A few years back, this bird kept landing on the phone wire and would attack its reflection in the house window across the street. For days on end.

[Carriage Hill]

I’ve never seen a ‘mass kill’ before.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Ban glass in Shitcago!

[Verginius Rufus]

Do birds contribute to global warming? If so, then it's OK if a billion birds are killed every year by windows.

If not, windows need to be banned. Except on the mansions of wealthy Democrats, of course.

[minnesota_bound]

Won’t help as birds are ‘bird brains’.
SMACK!