[BCNnet] Chicago story in LA Times

[COszak at aol.com]

Wow, great PR for the city.  I hope you forwarded a copy to the mayors office 
and Park District office.

Chris Oszak
Salt Creek Watershed Network
www.saltcreekwatershed.org
(630)832-4189

In a message dated 9/2/2005 10:39:04 AM Central Daylight Time, 
rbdoeker at yahoo.com writes:

> FYI - from the LA Times
> Randi Doeker
> Chicago
> ............................................
> 
> Feathered Travelers Get Emergency Way Station
> Skyscrapers can be deadly obstacles on birds' migratory path. Rescuers are 
> getting help: an avian
> hospital just outside downtown.
> By P.J. Huffstutter
> Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
> 
> August 22, 2005
> 
> CHICAGO - Every spring and fall, as millions of birds migrate, Robbie L. 
> Hunsinger steps up her
> patrol of the city in search of injured wildlife.
> 
> She and dozens of other volunteer Chicago Bird Collision Monitors try to 
> help the many birds that
> slam into skyscrapers each year, stunning themselves and often falling to 
> their deaths.
> 
> "We had 100 bird rescues in one day last fall," Hunsinger said. "We had over 
> 400 rescues last fall.
> Clearly we have a problem with injured birds."
> 
> Rehabilitation centers for injured birds are at least an hour's drive from 
> downtown, Hunsinger
> said. So she and other avian lovers pleaded their case to the city, which 
> agreed to build a
> mini-hospital for birds at the former Meigs Field airport on Northerly 
> Island, a peninsula in Lake
> Michigan. The site is 1.3 miles southeast of downtown.
> 



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