The Philadelphia Inquirer posted an article online about more than 1,500 migrating birds killed in Philadelphia one night last week when they flew into skyscrapers. (You can read it here.)James Bond ANSP Archives Coll. 457
When I heard the news, I thought back to an old front-page clipping I read from The Inquirer from September 1948, a similar tragedy struck Philadelphia (and New York City).
The first expert that The Inquirer interview back then? James Bond.
You can read the story below.
Bond (pictured at right), curator of birds of the Americas for the Academy of Natural Sciences, is quoted at the end of the first part of the story and the beginning of the jump.
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