Deadliest May Morning for Spring Window Strikes

Dead Yellow-rumped Warbler at the Zesto Building, i.e. Blatt Beer and Table.

Monday morning, May 13th, was the deadliest spring morning for bird migrants through east Omaha. There were 18 known window-strikes at eleven different buildings.

These are the species found, the locality and notes... There were likely other fatalities in the vicinity, but not every potential building was visited.

• Yellow-rumped Warbler: Zesto Building: Blatt Beer and Table - carcass on the east side, by the second from south doorway
• Clay-colored Sparrow: Qwest/CenturyLink Center Omaha - carcass just north of the main convention center entryway
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak: Qwest/CenturyLink Center Omaha - carcass of a male at the eastern portion of the north-facing entryway at the south extent of the west side
• House Wren - Qwest/CenturyLink Center Omaha: disabled at the western portion of the north-facing entryway at the south extent of the west side

Dead Rose-breasted Grosbeak at the CenturyLink Center.

• White-throated Sparrow: 1200 Landmark Center - carcass on the north side of the eastern building, in the middle extent
• White-throated Sparrow: 1200 Landmark Center - carcass on the north side of the tower, at the eastern corner
• Lincoln's Sparrow: 1200 Landmark Center - carcass at the east side of the north doorway into the atrium
• Gray Catbird: 1200 Landmark Center - disabled bird at the west-facing wall, east of the south entryway into the atrium; bird dead within five minutes
• Clay-colored Sparrow: Central Park Plaza - disabled outside the south-facing glass at Starbucks, at the north tower; bird taken and released elsewhere
• Clay-colored Sparrow: Central Park Plaza - disabled at the western plaza area of the south tower; bird taken and released elsewhere
• Clay-colored Sparrow: Union Pacific Center - carcass along the west side, a couple of yards from its south end
• Red-eyed Vireo: Gottschalk Freedom Center - carcass on the west side, by the fourth section of glass from the south end

Dead Sora the the First National Bank Tower.

• Clay-colored Sparrow: Zorinsky Federal Building - carcass on the west side, at the second section from the north end
• Sora: First National Tower - carcass on the east side of the main tower, at the northern extent of the steps, adjacent to the public sidewalk
• Tennessee Warbler: Omaha Public Power District Energy Plaza - carcass on the north side, at the first section from the west corner
• Clay-colored Sparrow: Law Building - carcass on the east side at the northern section of glass
• White-throated Sparrow: Law Building - carcass on the north side at the second section of glass from the west corner; a live one acting confused prominent on the west side of the building
• Lincoln's Sparrow: Omaha-Douglas Civic Center - carcass on the north side, just east of the doors into the atrium

Group portrait of many of the bird fatalities/carcasses from May 12th and 13th, 2013.