Harbor Habitat Factors

Building on Pier 5 compounds the problems below

Restoring and Reopening Landmark Park
Pier 5 catalyses the benefits below

Over 200 Bird Species depend on the Harbor Habitat. In late fall and winter, great flocks of waterfowl gather in harbor waters.

• Birds depend on the pier for play, biodiversity, to hunt, feed, and breed
• Birding (Bird Watching) – Audubon Auspices
• Absence of bird songs is noise pollution
• Absence of Natural Sounds such as Birds affects Mental Health
• It is an urgent ecological warning like a bird in a mine.
• Loss of Birds is Loss of Habitat
• To build a bird sanctuary cost……
• Gulls, terns, herons, ducks, geese, hawks, cormorants, plovers, sandpipers, doves, owls, woodpeckers, hawks, songbirds and perching birds to name a few

– National Park Service Massachusetts

Be Aware of the Birds!