
01/29/2025
This is good news! Let’s hope other businesses follow.
🎉The power of partnerships is in full effect for efforts to !🎉
Our USFWS Director Martha Williams, recently visited the McCormick Place Lakeside Center in Chicago. Not only have they voluntarily implemented a “curtains-closed-by-default” policy at the event center (which prevents light from escaping), they also installed nearly 120,000 square feet of a 2” x 2” dot pattern on their windows (developed by Feather Friendly), making nearly 2 football fields of glass bird-friendly!
Treating glass and addressing nighttime light pollution are two of the primary ways we can prevent bird collisions at our homes, schools, and buildings!🪟⭐️🌃
Learn more: https://www.fws.gov/story/celebrating-successes-reducing-bird-collisions
📷USFWS Director Martha Williams talks with partners at the McCormick Place in Chicago about the dot pattern applied to windows to reduce bird collisions.
Credit: Brian Smith/USFWS