About 1,000 birds killed after colliding into McCormick Place Lakeside Center in one ‘tragic,’ deadly night

A dead bird outside McCormick Place Lakeside Center on Friday. Bird advocates are pushing for nonreflective windows that are safer for birds, who are less likely to be attracted to them while passing through the city on their migration south. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

In one night earlier this week, nearly 1,000 birds were killed after colliding into the McCormick Place Lakeside Center during the height of the fall migration.

“To have so many birds at one building is just devastating. That is a very tragic amount of birds to find dead at all, especially from one building,” said Annette Young, director of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors.