"Fall of this year has been really hard," Dr. Dustin Partridge, NYC Bird Alliance's director of conservation and science, told The Post Tuesday. "We're still waiting on a little bit of the data to come in, but based on the data that we currently have, we're already approaching record numbers of birds collided."
The wind and low-cloud ceiling pushed an estimated 25 million migrating birds directly into high-risk areas, including a particularly deadly skyscraper hotspot along lower Manhattan's Hudson River coastline.
"It's upsetting. We keep building glass towers, so it keeps happening, which is really awful," said Regina Overath, a horticulturist with Battery Park City Authority, who plucks dozens of dead birds off the ground of the neighborhood each migration season.
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