Nearly 1,000 migrating birds died after crashing into Chicago building
The songbirds died late last week after smashing into McCormick Place Lakeside Center, a mostly glass building.
Nearly 1,000 birds died late last week after flying into a Chicago convention center during their migratory journey south.
964 birds crashed into McCormick Place Lakeside Center, a mostly glass building located on the shore of Lake Michigan just south of downtown Chicago.
Douglas Stotz, a conservation ecologist with the Chicago-based Field Museum, called Wednesday evening the biggest night of migration Chicago had seen in the last century.
"In one
