Anti-collision measures, which can include installing glass with tiny markings, will only be voluntary for new and renovated buildings.
Annette Prince, director of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, retrieves a dead blue jay on a sidewalk on South Dearborn Street in Chicago as she patrols the downtown area on April 29, 2024. Bird safety advocates are disappointed with a final draft of Chicago’s sustainable development policy, which encourages, but does not require, that new buildings use bird-friendly materials to prevent collisions during migration season.
“We feel it’s not adequate,” said Prince, chair of Bird Friendly Chicago, a coalition of local birding and conservation groups that’s been working for bird-safe building measures since 2016. “ has incentivized the bird-friendly design section by tripling the point total , and by including, for the first time, an implementation section that helps developers figure out how to use bird-friendly measures in their projects,” Strazzabosco said.
During a walk through the Loop, she pulled out her phone to show an array of birds, including an injured meadowlark and a deceased northern flicker with a spotted belly and bright yellow feathers on the undersides of its wings. Annette Prince, of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, rescues a white-throated sparrow outside the post office on Chicago’s South Dearborn Street as she patrols the downtown area to rescue injured or dead birds on April 29, 2024.
Advocates began pushing the city for bird-safe building design measures in 2016, with early efforts focusing on an ordinance. She said the word “required” was used in the department’s presentations and slides until the end of 2023, and then there was “a reversal at the 11th hour.” Strazzabosco said that policy documents such as the sustainable development policy update don’t have the authority to create mandates; that typically requires an ordinance with a City Council vote behind it.
Since 2017, about 30 projects have chosen bird safety from Chicago’s menu of sustainable building strategies, Strazzabosco said. That’s approximately 10% of the projects that had to choose from the menu.
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