“This is a continuing crisis, and it’s disappointing that Chicago has yet to do something about it,” said Annette Prince, the head of the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors.
Annette Price, head of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, left, talks to siblings Natalie Smith, center, and Jeff Smith about a dead American robin they found on the ground downtown Oct. 12, 2022. Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, a volunteer group, each migratory season rescues thousands of birds injured from striking downtown’s glass-walled buildings.Chicago is the deadliest city in the U.S.
Annette Prince, of the volunteer group Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, walks near Michigan Avenue close to the Chicago River looking for dead or injured birds on Oct. 12, 2022. When the 2020 ordinance was being considered, Prince and other activists wanted to mandate that new buildings and those undergoing renovations include technology such as patterned glass that birds can better see, and thus avoid deadly collisions.
Prince and her volunteers stay busy on early morning walks during migrations, collecting from downtown sidewalks, plazas and alleys about 7,000 birds each year, including northern flickers, ground nesting warblers and song sparrows, recording the locations and bringing survivors to a suburban wildlife rehab center.
Hopkins said the planning department’s update should be done by the first quarter of 2023 and he plans to introduce a new ordinance codifying those changes. A possible further step will be revisiting the original idea of requiring at least some new developments to include bird safety measures.
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