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Bird deaths plummet at Chicago's McCormick Place Lakeside Center after safety film installed

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Bird-safe film marks Lakeside Center's windows with tiny dots that help birds detect the glass and avoid it.

"To me, it was almost miraculous," says retired Field Museum bird division collections manager Dave Willard .

"We didn't know what we were going to do, we just knew we needed to do something," owner says.

Feather Friendly makes bird-safe film used at Lakeside Center .

Willard calls recent decline in fall casualties "remarkable" "I just really hope that not only does it hold true into the future, but also it's a stimulus to other buildings to address their own problems," he says.

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