“I walked down to the building early one morning and I found three or four dead birds, some of them already insect-ridden.

I thought to myself: I work in the museum and things are dying out there, so why not make use of out of them?” Willard said. I remember having a casual conversation with somebody who mentioned birds sometimes fly into the windows of this building. “At the time I was only recently hired by the Field Museum. In 1978 David Willard, the collections manager emeritus of the Field Museum in Chicago, heard an offhand remark about birds hitting McCormick Place, North America’s largest convention centre, about a mile south of the museum.

Scientists found that on nights when half the windows of a large building in Chicago were darkened, there were 11 times fewer bird collisions during spring migration and six times fewer collisions during autumn migration than when all the windows were lit. Turning off building lights at night can save migrating birds from crashing into buildings, a study based on decades of research has shown.

Morrowind where are all the birds going