Nearly 1,000 birds died in a single night after flying into windows at McCormick Place Lakeside Center in October 2023. Lauren Nassef via the Field Museum Last October, a lakeside event venue in ...

After nearly 1,000 birds crashed into McCormick Place Lakeside Center last October, the event space along Lake Michigan’s shoreline is installing a gridded window film to mitigate future collisions.

McCormick Place Lakeside Center has wrapped up its latest effort to keep its glass facade safe for birds. The upgrades come in time for the migratory birds now passing through Chicago on their long ...

Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found that when birds evolve ...