Wildlife
Despite the island's extremely developed industrial landscape, areas along the south and west shores are left undeveloped to provide habitat for natural wildlife. Foxes and once-endangered Peregrine falcons, which frequent large outdoor structures such as the EOT gantry cranes at the ore docks, thrive on the island and offshore at the bottom of the Detroit River is a man-made bed of coal cinders which serves as a rare spawning site for Lake Sturgeon, a threatened species. Less desirable are the sometimes troublesome sizable populations of gulls, feral cats and rats.
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