In 2023, the death toll for a single day was so high—at least 960 birds—that the carnage became national news.
But this fall, when bird collision monitors performed their usual daily searches of the building’s grounds, they found something remarkable: just 18 dead birds.
The bird-safe film, applied at a cost of $1.2 million this summer, marks Lakeside Center’s windows with tiny dots that help birds detect the glass and avoid it.