The birds hit McCormick Place Lakeside Center windows, the result, according to experts, of migration conditions, rain and the hall lights and windows.
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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David Willard has been checking the grounds of Chicago s lakefront exhibition center for dead birds for 40 years. On Thursday morning he found something horrible: Hundreds of dead songbirds, so thick they looked like a carpet.