Nearly 1,000 migrating songbirds perish after crashing into windows at Chicago exhibition hall

David Willard has been checking the grounds of Chicago's lakefront exhibition center for dead birds for 40 years. “It was just like a carpet of dead birds at the windows there,” said Willard, a retired bird division collections manager at the Chicago Field Museum, where his duties included administering, preserving and cataloging the museum's collection of 500,000 bird specimens as well as searching for bird strikes as part of migration research.

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