Thousands of birds have flown into windows and died at Loyola’s Lake Shore Campus due to mistaking windows for sky. Loyola has taken steps to protect some of these species. Chicago ranks first in the highest rate of bird fatalities from window collisions due to its direct alignment with birds’ migratory paths. Project Student Operation for Avian Relief (SOAR) at Loyola picks up dead birds that hit windows around campus during their migration periods. Their website catalogs the birds and where they are found. Since 2012, 1,354 birds have been collected by SOAR with 431 being found at the south entrance of the Damen Student Center, according to the website. Carly Fournier, a graduate student of environmental science and sustainability at Loyola, said she got involved with Project SOAR after they took an undergraduate class where they had to search for birds at sunrise during migratory periods.  “I literally stood at Damen south entrance and watched as birds flew 40 miles an hour into...