CHAMPAIGN-URBANA (WCIA) -- A group of University of Illinois students is documenting bird deaths on campus -- and working to figure out how to reduce the number of birds that die after colliding with windows and buildings.

The Bird Strike Survey is connected to the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES), part of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.

Volunteers look for injured birds from September to November in the fall and from March to May in the spring. They survey "problem buildings" twice a day; when they find an injured or dead bird, they document information like its species, where and when it was found and the direction the window it hit was facing.

The surveyors use this information to identify which buildings on campus ar

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