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Article: COLLECTION GROWS FROM BIRDS' MISFORTUNE.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 5, 2009
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ALBANY -- It's 6:45 a.m., and the bird man of Empire State Plaza is on his daily autumn death patrol.
"Let's walk this way," Jeremy Kirchman says cheerfully as we round the east side of the 589-foot-tall Corning Tower. "This is the building that has the most capacity to kill migrating birds."
The Plaza is almost deserted except for a pair of workers sitting in a tiny utility vehicle watching the sun rise across the Hudson and a lone smoker taking shelter from the wind in a nearby alcove.
A light fog is lifting, which heartens Kirchman as he scans a fenced-off stretch of sidewalk, looking for dead birds.
The fog is a good sign that his ...