In 2023, nearly 1,000 birds died in a single night after striking one building in Chicago. A year later, after bird-friendly window treatment was installed at that same building, reported collisions dropped by 95%. That building was McCormick Place, and its retrofit is now featured in the City of Chicago’s new guide: Make Your Building Bird-Friendly. Chicago. This wonderful, practical guide looks at what residents, schools, offices, property managers, architects, and large building owners can do to reduce bird-window collisions across the city. For a place that sits on the Mississippi Flyway, this work matters. Chicago’s glass, lights, parks, lakefront, and migration traffic all intersect. Better building choices can make that intersection far less deadly. Thank you to the chicagosmayor Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy, Alderwoman Maria Hadden, Gina Parra-Hughes, and the Chicago Bird-Friendly Working Group for helping move this guide forward. Access the guide here...