Volunteers Rescue Many Migrating Birds

Millions of birds migrate through Chicago every spring and fall on routes as far north as Alaska and as far south as South America. But many birds never reach their destination because they collide with buildings, particularly along the lakefront.

A local group finds about 4,000 birds a year on sidewalks and streets in just one square city mile. More than half of these birds are dead but many are just stunned according to the group, whose 70 volunteers monitor the east end of Randolph Street from the river to Congress Parkway.

"Tens of thousands (of birds) are killed or injured as they pass through the city," said Annette Prince of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, a non-profit that has tracked and rescued birds since 2003. There is a "huge variety," she said, about 120 species including neo-tropical birds, yellow rails, warblers and humming birds.

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