Invasive animals in your area

Michigan we have trouble with a lot of the following:
sea lamprey
feral pigs
zebra mussels
ring necked pheasant
russian ivy (Introduced by the DNR to feed the ring necked pheasant)
purple loosestrife
garlic mustard
Rusty Crayfish
and our at war against Chicago trying to keep out the....... Dun dun DUN........
ASIAN CARP!!!
Asian Carp are probably the only thing people in Michigan hate more than the Pittsburgh Penguins :) ;)
 
JBZvolunteer said:
Michigan we have trouble with a lot of the following:
sea lamprey
feral pigs
zebra mussels
ring necked pheasant
russian ivy (Introduced by the DNR to feed the ring necked pheasant)
purple loosestrife
garlic mustard
Rusty Crayfish
and our at war against Chicago trying to keep out the....... Dun dun DUN........
ASIAN CARP!!!
Asian Carp are probably the only thing people in Michigan hate more than the Pittsburgh Penguins :) ;)
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I didn't know Michigan had feral pigs. I always thought of them as being more of a Southern pest. What about Hungarian partridge or chukars? We have those in Wyoming but I've never seen them where I live.
 
DavidBrown said:
In California feral pigs are huge problem in that they destroy ecosystems and breed like rabbits. Our avifauna is invaded by European starlings, rock doves, house sparrows, and various parrot species.

Invasive plants are a great problem. Most of our native grassland has been replaced with European species. Our coastlines are heavily invaded by South African ice plant and our wetlands are choking with Arundo donax, and invasive reed from Eurasia. There are a couple other thousand invasive plant species beyond that.
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Arundo donax has been the bane of my existence for 20 years.
 
ThylacineAlive said:
-House Mouse in Connecticut and New York
-Various feral domestics in Connecticut and New York (feral cats)
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House Mice, Brown/Black Rats, Feral Cats, and Feral Dogs are pretty much a problem worldwide, not just Connecticut and New York. :D
When I was down in Maryland, kudzu seemed to be a pretty widespread invasive species down there (Yes I know it's a plant.)
 
I haven't seen them but apparently Colombia has some feral hippos.

:p

Hix
 
well I've done my part to rid my little corner of northeast Alabama of feral hog. Speaking of feral hogs and my area, If you guys go watch the Bear Grylls episode about Alabama that is the county I am from. In that episode he killed and ate a feral hog. And yes Bear is a fraud he never went farther than 1000 feet from a road.
 
tschandler71 said:
well I've done my part to rid my little corner of northeast Alabama of feral hog. Speaking of feral hogs and my area, If you guys go watch the Bear Grylls episode about Alabama that is the county I am from. In that episode he killed and ate a feral hog. And yes Bear is a fraud he never went farther than 1000 feet from a road.
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Did he actually kill the hog? And did he actually eat it?

~Thylo:cool:
 
tschandler71 said:
the Bear Grylls episode about Alabama that is the county I am from. In that episode he killed and ate a feral hog. And yes Bear is a fraud he never went farther than 1000 feet from a road.
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I have heard that before, there was some publicity about some of his other shows when wildlife and 'outdoor-type T.V programmes were being scrutinised for 'authenticity' a year or so ago. One I watched he was in Siberia-comes out of the Wilderness and 'hitches a lift back to civilisation' by jumping onto the back of a passing Trans-Siberian Express- I've never seen anything so far-fetched or obviously rigged in my life!
 
FBBird said:
Forgot to mention Sika here; large numbers around Poole Harbour. I understand they were originally put on Brownsea Island by someone who didn't know that deer could swim.
Also forgot to mention Mink, which may be gradually being replaced by returning Otters. My understanding is that Otters clear out Mink. Neither is desirable if you're trying to keep ducks, although it is of course fashionable to like Otters.
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The Sika Deer that were put on Brownsea apparently swam off the Island on the very first night. About 1970 I was working there for a short while and re-discovered their presence, they weren't known to be there previously since they left, so presumably some had recently recolonised Brownsea again by swimming the other way!

They were also kept at Hyde House near Wareham and escapes from both places meant the two feral populations merged. There is a very large population nowadays and I've seen them as far west as near to Bridport recently.

The ones in the New Forest are a different(and controlled) population, stemming from just two pairs which escaped/were released from the Beauliea Estates circa 1904. They are apparently genetically purer than any other UK populations.

Otters/Mink. Otter do prey on Mink- hopefully the spread of Otters might eradicate Mink in time? But trout fisheries and pond fish keepers are feeling the pinch now, they certainly don't like Otters, unfashionable or not!;).
 
tschandler71 said:
yes on camera go watch the episode. Apparently no one told us that we have Cougars Jaguars Bears and Alligators in a Canyon in the dead of winter.
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Cougars and jaguars in the canyons of Alabama? I've never been to Alabama but I didn't know these things were there. :)
 
elefante said:
Cougars and jaguars in the canyons of Alabama? I've never been to Alabama but I didn't know these things were there. :)
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I have no doubt that there are many cougars to be found in Alabama's watering holes, especially on a Friday night. :D Jaguars that far east though? :confused:
 
Around 2000 I saw a article about a feral population of Black Iguanas which were living on the Zoo-ground of a ( if I remember right ) Californian zoo. Anybody who knowns more about this ?
 
In northwest Indiana here, we have the typical omnipresent house sparrows and European starlings, as well as in Chicago an increasing population of feral monk parakeets. However, since they are largely dependent on human handouts and live in an urban area relatively devoid of farmland, they have not caused any problems with either humans or the ecosystem as of yet, save for their enormous nest colonies that must periodically be cleaned from telephone poles to make sure they don't become too heavy and damage them.

Are lakes are full of liberated goldfish as well, some several feet long and competing with local species and rooting up plants, muddying the water and causing increased erosion.
 
In Spain mainly: collared dove, American crab, (3 species) Florida terrapin (many sub species) american vison, rainbow trout, bullhead, African pike, Japanese carp, monk Parakeet, and many more tropical or subtropical birds and fishes.In the last years raccoons and coatis too.
 
KEEPER said:
In Spain mainly: collared dove, American crab, (3 species) Florida terrapin (many sub species) american vison, rainbow trout, bullhead, African pike, Japanese carp, monk Parakeet, and many more tropical or subtropical birds and fishes.In the last years raccoons and coatis too.
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I´ve heared there is also a small group of free-ranging Baboons in Spain. Do you have any information about that ?
 
Here in california but up in the San Francisco Bay Area which is north of me, an invasive species is the European Green crab (Carcinus maenas), they arrived in San Francisco Bay in 1990, they made their way all along coastal california north of San Francisco, the damage that they do is they feed on native clams, oysters, mussels & crabs

Another invasive species is the Brown trout, they are native to the UK and mainland europe, they are found in many rivers in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, they prey on native trout including the california golden trout

Some Non-native invasive mammals that were introduced into California include

Fallow deer
Himalayan tahr
Nilgai
Gambian giant pouched rat
Prairie dog
Crab eating macaque
Japanese macaque
Rhesus macaque
Mongolian gerbil
European polecat
Stoat
Least weasel
American mink
House mouse
Nutria
Raccoon dog
European rabbit
Gemsbok
Brush-tailed marsupial mouse
and
Many others

In fact here is a list of all the invasive animals and plants in California, I hope you find this interesting

Invasive Species List and Scorecards for California
 
elefante said:
Cougars and jaguars in the canyons of Alabama? I've never been to Alabama but I didn't know these things were there. :)
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Well in fairness there are alligators in the lakes like Lake Guntersville not in the cold water and rapids of a river.

But yeah no jaguars certainly and mountain lions are a tricky subject. Officially the Eastern Cougar is extinct, but at least once a year one is killed east of the Mississippi but wildlife officials brush it off as a migrant from the Rockies or an escaped pet.
 
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