Interesting/Little Known introduced populations

I have heard a claim from a relative that they saw "wild" lemurs in Turkey, as the relative lived there for 7 years. Sounded dead serious but I immediately question weather he saw lemurs or something else.
 
There may be lemurs in Florida though
CheeseChameleon1945 said:
I have heard a claim from a relative that they saw "wild" lemurs in Turkey, as the relative lived there for 7 years. Sounded dead serious but I immediately question weather he saw lemurs or something else.
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i think there are (or were) feral lemurs at some point in Florida though.
 
Randomname0183 said:
Yeah, I may be confused with some other simian actually, as I read somewhere that there have been macaques and squirrel monkeys in Florida. Thanks for the correction!
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Currently both Green Monkeys and Rhesus Macaques can be found in Florida. Common Squirrel Monkeys used to found in Florida, as well.
 
While I was looking at the most recent UK Rare Bird Breeding Report, I spotted a reference to a 2019 paper about the status of the Indian peafowl in the UK.

Looking at the paper, it argues that a population in Oxfordshire (Nuneham Courtenay) are a self-sustaining population and merit consideration as fully naturalised birds. It also points out that the former population of peafowl at Whipsnade Zoo were also self-sustaining feral birds that received no additional care - this population was deliberately reduced in 2006 because of fears of bird flu.

Because peafowl are so little-recorded by birdwatchers, it may be that there are more self-sustaining populations around that have flown under the radar. A phenomenon recorded disproportionately often in Essex is the sudden appearance of groups of up to a dozen birds in towns and villages with no known or even suspected sources. One of the places this takes place is a village just a few miles down the road to me and indeed last year we had a male peacock appear almost out of nowhere for a day.

The full paper can be found in the link here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...-a-brief-survey-of-the-species-in-Britain.pdf
 
DesertRhino150 said:
While I was looking at the most recent UK Rare Bird Breeding Report, I spotted a reference to a 2019 paper about the status of the Indian peafowl in the UK.

Looking at the paper, it argues that a population in Oxfordshire (Nuneham Courtenay) are a self-sustaining population and merit consideration as fully naturalised birds. It also points out that the former population of peafowl at Whipsnade Zoo were also self-sustaining feral birds that received no additional care - this population was deliberately reduced in 2006 because of fears of bird flu.

Because peafowl are so little-recorded by birdwatchers, it may be that there are more self-sustaining populations around that have flown under the radar. A phenomenon recorded disproportionately often in Essex is the sudden appearance of groups of up to a dozen birds in towns and villages with no known or even suspected sources. One of the places this takes place is a village just a few miles down the road to me and indeed last year we had a male peacock appear almost out of nowhere for a day.

The full paper can be found in the link here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...-a-brief-survey-of-the-species-in-Britain.pdf
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Very interesting! I live in Sweden and a parish/area close to me actually has had "wild" peafowls for many many years. It's a large island that covers 94.72 km² and it is only accessible via one bridge. Most of the island is covered with forests and fields.
Every year there are articles about people randomly seeing peafowls in their gardens, or on their walks. And there have been articles about peahens brooding under people's terraces and similar.

The origins of the animals are said to originally be the zoo "Parken Zoo" in Sweden. They sold all their peafowls because they kept escaping from the park, and apparently, they all escaped from their new home as well.
 
DesertRhino150 said:
While I was looking at the most recent UK Rare Bird Breeding Report, I spotted a reference to a 2019 paper about the status of the Indian peafowl in the UK.

Looking at the paper, it argues that a population in Oxfordshire (Nuneham Courtenay) are a self-sustaining population and merit consideration as fully naturalised birds. It also points out that the former population of peafowl at Whipsnade Zoo were also self-sustaining feral birds that received no additional care - this population was deliberately reduced in 2006 because of fears of bird flu.

Because peafowl are so little-recorded by birdwatchers, it may be that there are more self-sustaining populations around that have flown under the radar. A phenomenon recorded disproportionately often in Essex is the sudden appearance of groups of up to a dozen birds in towns and villages with no known or even suspected sources. One of the places this takes place is a village just a few miles down the road to me and indeed last year we had a male peacock appear almost out of nowhere for a day.

The full paper can be found in the link here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...-a-brief-survey-of-the-species-in-Britain.pdf
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There have been free-breeding peafowl on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, which is fox-free, for many decades now, though I don't know what their current status is nowadays. I think probably still there though.

I used to live in a small village where there were two- then one, resident male Peacocks. They were from a group on a local small country estate, when they were moved I believe these either got left behind or found their own way back. The longest surviving one roosted in a tree in the churchyard. One day we woke to see about eight sitting on a neighbour's roof though, I think the same estate had reintroduced them and they had gone walkabout.
 
Pertinax said:
There have been free-breeding peafowl on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, which is fox-free, for many decades now, though I don't know what their current status is nowadays. I think probably still there though.

I used to live in a small village where there were two- then one, resident male Peacocks. They were from a group on a local small country estate, when they were moved I believe these either got left behind or found their own way back. The longest surviving one roosted in a tree in the churchyard. One day we woke to see about eight sitting on a neighbour's roof though, I think the same estate had reintroduced them and they had gone walkabout.
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I think the Brownsea peafowl are now in very small numbers, as are the long established Golden Pheasants. Swinhoe’s and Blue Eared were tried some fifty years ago, but didn’t persist.
 
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