(11 Oct 2024)
US MIGRATING BIRDS
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago – 2 October 2024
1. Close of white throated sparrow.
UPSOUND (English): "It’s a white throated sparrow, showing you a very nice white throated sparrow. He hit that glass on the side of that building."
2. Wide of Annette Prince with net to catch birds with
UPSOUND (English): "Let’s do a couple more buildings over here. Oh, there’s another one, and two."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Annette Prince, director of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors:
"What the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors mission is is to get into the downtown areas and other places where people are finding birds that have collided with buildings, try to recover and document what’s happening."
4. Close of injured bird in Annette’s hand.
UPSOUND (English): "He’s kind of gasping. The majority of these birds have massive head trauma or internal bleeding."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Annette Prince, director of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors:
"Of the birds that we recover, about 70% of them are dead, and about 30% of them are injured. And those 30% are ones that we want to quickly pick up off of sidewalks, streets and buildings before more harm comes to them."
6. Wide of Annette Prince standing near glass building.
UPSOUND (English): "And they’re heading towards something that looks to them to be an open space when in fact there’s a solid surface there that they ought to be avoiding."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Annette Prince, director of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors:
"And the ones we’re seeing here in the fall that we’re born up in Canada this summer, maybe they’ve never even seen a building. They’ve been up in a forested area and they come through an urban center and glass either looks deceptively clear and transparent such that they don’t see that there’s anything in their way, or it’s mirror-like and it looks like the sky or the trees that are reflected and they think that’s a real thing they can fly towards."
8. Annette with bird she just caught in net
UPSOUND (English): "It’s a beautiful, white throated sparrow. He’s – some beautiful plumage. Look at that yellow above his beak."
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Annette Prince, director of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors:
"Chicago has been ranked as posing the greatest threat to migratory birds based on the fact that we have the, the combination of the millions of birds that pass through this area because it’s a major migratory path through the United States, on top of the amount of artificial lighting that we put out at night, which is when these birds are traveling and getting confused and attracted, and the amount of glass, you add all that in and you get a perfect storm of threats to two birds that are just trying to safely pass through our urban areas."
10. Close of injured bird in Annette’s hands.
UPSOUND (English): "He hit the glass. He’ll be okay. You can see a little kind of divot on his head where he may have bumped himself there."
11. Annette writing information about bird on paper bag she’s put him in
12. Close of bird’s information on paper bag in Annette’s hand
UPSOUND (English): "But if you can identify an area where a lot of harm is coming to birds and fix that area, you can make a significant decrease in collisions."
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Annette Prince, director of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors:
"McCormick Place Lakeside facility has always been one of the most dangerous buildings in Chicago."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago – 7 October 2024
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18. Stotz closes drawer of dead birds
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