Revere, MA Animal Ordinances: Bird Protection (2026)

03 pairs its citywide ban on feeding wild animals with a specific carve-out for backyard birds. 020 allows songbird and backyard bird feeding on private property, but only under five conditions. Birds must be fed from a bird feeder, that feeder has to sit at least five feet above the ground, and it cannot be installed on or attached to a fence in any manner. Scattering or placing food, seed, grain, or any other attractant directly on the ground is not permitted at all, closing off the most common way backyard feeding turns into a wildlife or rodent problem.

The feeding also cannot create an unreasonable disturbance that affects the rights of surrounding property owners or leaves neighbors feeling insecure in the use of their own property, cannot let droppings accumulate on the property or surrounding properties, and cannot become an attractant for rodents or other wild animals. 030, the same office that enforces the broader wildlife-feeding ban, and a feeder that violates any of the five conditions exposes the property owner to the same chapter-wide penalty as an unlawful wildlife feeding.