<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Wow, great PR for the city. I hope you forwarded a copy to the mayors office and Park District office.<BR>
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Chris Oszak<BR>
Salt Creek Watershed Network<BR>
<A HREF="www.saltcreekwatershed.org">www.saltcreekwatershed.org</A><BR>
(630)832-4189<BR>
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In a message dated 9/2/2005 10:39:04 AM Central Daylight Time, rbdoeker@yahoo.com writes:<BR>
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Randi Doeker<BR>
Chicago<BR>
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Feathered Travelers Get Emergency Way Station<BR>
Skyscrapers can be deadly obstacles on birds' migratory path. Rescuers are getting help: an avian<BR>
hospital just outside downtown.<BR>
By P.J. Huffstutter<BR>
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer<BR>
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August 22, 2005<BR>
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CHICAGO - Every spring and fall, as millions of birds migrate, Robbie L. Hunsinger steps up her<BR>
patrol of the city in search of injured wildlife.<BR>
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She and dozens of other volunteer Chicago Bird Collision Monitors try to help the many birds that<BR>
slam into skyscrapers each year, stunning themselves and often falling to their deaths.<BR>
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"We had 100 bird rescues in one day last fall," Hunsinger said. "We had over 400 rescues last fall.<BR>
Clearly we have a problem with injured birds."<BR>
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Rehabilitation centers for injured birds are at least an hour's drive from downtown, Hunsinger<BR>
said. So she and other avian lovers pleaded their case to the city, which agreed to build a<BR>
mini-hospital for birds at the former Meigs Field airport on Northerly Island, a peninsula in Lake<BR>
Michigan. The site is 1.3 miles southeast of downtown.<BR>
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