There’s a Salt Marsh on the East Coast Where You Can See More Than 250 Species of Birds

There’s a Salt Marsh on the East Coast Where You Can See More Than 250 Species of Birds

There’s a Salt Marsh on the East Coast Where You Can See More Than 250 Species of Birds Belle Isle Marsh Reservation – credit NewtonCourt CC BY-SA 4.0. There are roughly 1,000 native bird species in the 50 States, and if you stand long enough on the walkways of Boston’s Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, you could see around one-fourth of them. This protected Mid-Atlantic salt marsh remnant has recorded an astonishing 271 species of birds. It offers Bostonians a cool, breezy refuge of salty air and bird calls not far from Logan International Airport. It’s the only remaining salt marsh in city, which was once surrounded by them. It protects neighborhoods from coastal erosion, absorbs storm surges, and delights the community who campaigned to protect it in the 1980s in the early days of the environmentalism movement. “You can be out there on the main street then you come in here and you’re in a different place in a different time,” Heather Famico of the Department of Conservation and Recreation (…