Thanks Tobin and Brody for the reply and a huge thanks to everyone who is documenting this grim situation and attempting to mitigate it! It's shocking that 40 victim compilation pic is from a single building! Perhaps a story in the Daily Nebraskan featuring Ian's eye-opening pics would help to raise awareness to this plight and desperately needed action? Lincoln probably should join the national Lights Out campaign for nights with high migration numbers predicted on Birdcast as the night with this mass mortality event was.
-Shari Schwartz & John Carlini, Lincoln On Friday, October 2, 2026 at 03:43:38 PM CDT, Brody via groups.io <brodybiberdorf...> wrote:
This was all just memorial stadium. This is a photo Ian took of their camera roll after photographing all the birds.
The yellow rail is likely gone and should not be looked for. It was in a very dangerous spot where it could easily be spooked and fly into windows.
Here is the total tallyNashville warbler: 3Lincoln’s sparrow: 15Clay colored sparrow: 5swamp sparrow: 1Common yellowthroat: 4Chimney swift: 2orange crowned warbler: 5gray catbird: 1Virginia rail: 1Yellow rail: 1Sedge wren: 1mourning warbler: 1these are birds that were either dead or looked severely stunned/in decline because of a strike. just from last night at one building
On Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 2:29 PM flyingcarlini via groups.io <flyingcarlini...> wrote:
Hello birders,Oh my god, Ian N.'s checklist from today at UNL Campus has a horrific number of window strike victims from last night's massive migration. Does anyone know if all these birds were next to the same or different buildings? Are they still there? SOMETHING needs to happen to prevent this carnage in the future!Here's a link to Ian's checklist:https://ebird.org/checklist/S398349951 Shari Schwartz & John Carlini, Lincoln
