{"id":14142,"date":"2023-10-07T10:02:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T14:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2023\/10\/07\/nearly-1000-birds-die-after-colliding-with-chicago-building\/"},"modified":"2023-10-07T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T14:02:03","slug":"nearly-1000-birds-die-after-colliding-with-chicago-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2023\/10\/07\/nearly-1000-birds-die-after-colliding-with-chicago-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1,000 Birds Die After Colliding With Chicago Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive number of migrating birds collided with McCormick Place \u2014 a Chicago convention center \u2014 this week, resulting in an unprecedented number of bird deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Willard has collected dead and injured birds from around the center during the migration season for about 40 years. In an interview with the Audubon website, Willard said that he and his colleagues collected 964 dead birds and approximately 80 \u201cstunned live ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was truly unprecedented,\u201d he said of Thursday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds more dead and injured birds were subsequently found around the city.<\/p>\n<p>Before this week\u2019s catastrophe, the largest number of dead birds he had collected was 200.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunate weather\u201d combined with \u201cdisorienting brightly lit buildings\u201d confused the birds, resulting in the high death and injury numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou pick up a Rose-breasted Grosbeak and realize, if it hadn\u2019t been for a building in Chicago, it would be spending its winter in the foothills of the Andes,\u201d Willard said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a shame that a city can\u2019t be less of an obstacle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive number of migrating birds collided with McCormick Place \u2014 a Chicago convention center \u2014 this week, resulting in an unprecedented number of bird deaths. Dave Willard has collected dead and injured birds from around the center during the migration season for about 40 years. In an interview with the Audubon website, Willard said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":14143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}