In Chicago, workers covered a deadly glass building with tiny white dots, and bird collisions dropped by about 95%

For years, the glass walls of Chicago’s McCormick Place convention centre posed a serious threat to migrating birds. From the outside, the building reflected the sky, trees and surrounding landscape. To birds flying through the city, the glass could look like open sky until they struck it.

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