Bird Introductions

Poole, Kristopher

doi:10.2307/j.ctv13gvg6k.24

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“…Beddingham Roman Villa, with contexts dated by pottery seriation to the 1st–4th centuries AD, include remains molecularly identified as coming from domestic fowl ( Gallus gallus ), which is expected in a Roman villa site [ 35 ], as they were part of the Roman diet and had been introduced to Britain during the Iron Age [ 36 ]. The other identifications include birds of farmland (corn bunting Emberiza calandra ), forest edge and hedgerow (blackbird Turdus merula and song thrush Turdus philomelos ), wetlands (Eurasian wigeon Anas penelope ) [ 24 ] and taxa that may have been domesticates (greylag goose Anser anser and rock dove Columbia livia ).…”

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Identifying Bird Remains Using Ancient DNA Barcoding

Dalén

Lagerholm

Nylander

et al. 2017

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Bird remains that are difficult to identify taxonomically using morphological methods, are common in the palaeontological record. Other types of challenging avian material include artefacts and food items from endangered taxa, as well as remains from aircraft strikes. We here present a DNA-based method that enables taxonomic identification of bird remains, even from material where the DNA is heavily degraded. The method is based on the amplification and sequencing of two short variable parts of the 16S region in the mitochondrial genome. To demonstrate the applicability of this approach, we evaluated the method on a set of Holocene and Late Pleistocene postcranial bird bones from several palaeontological and archaeological sites in Europe with good success.

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Identifying Bird Remains Using Ancient DNA Barcoding

Dalén

Lagerholm

Nylander

et al. 2017

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“…Helmeted Guineafowl are known to have been introduced to Greece by the fifth century BC, and Italy by the first century AD, with possible introduction into Germany around this same time (Poole 2010). There are records in France dating back to the fifteenth century with animals reaching Britain in the sixteenth century.…”

Section: Helmeted Guineafowl Numida Meleagrismentioning

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South Africa as a Donor of Alien Animals

Measey

Robinson

Kruger

et al. 2020

Biological Invasions in South Africa

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This review provides the first assessment of animal species that are native to South Africa and invasive elsewhere in the world. While around a twelfth of all naturalised plants in the world are native to South Africa, there are very few examples of South African native marine, terrestrial, or freshwater animals becoming invasive elsewhere. We provide a narrative of each of the 34 cases that we could find. Three of these species, the Common Waxbill, Estrilda astrild, the Mozambique Tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus and the African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis, were widely traded, and introduced on several continents with invasive populations becoming the subject of substantial research. Most other species are poorly documented in the literature such that it is often not known whether South African populations are the source of invasions. These species demonstrate the same trend in pathways of animals entering South Africa, moving from deliberate to accidental through time. The role of mavericks, individuals whose deliberate actions wilfully facilitate invasions, is highlighted. While South Africa has acted as an important bridgehead for the invasions of forestry pests, crayfish, fish and amphibians on the continent, it is clearly not a major donor of animal invasions, but rather a recipient. This could be due to South African ecosystems being fundamentally more invasible, or South African fauna showing reduced invasiveness, though it is likely that substantial differences in historical pathways also played a crucial role.

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“…Rackham (1997, 48) shows how the price of rabbits, relative to daily wage, dropped from the thirteenth to nineteenth century. The aristocracy, however, continued to seek the exotic for their feast-day tables and, eventually, rabbits were replaced by other species, notably the turkey (Poole 2010;Fothergill 2014).…”

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“…Their introduction to England is credited to William Strickland, who claimed to have bought six turkeys from Native American traders and sold them in Bristol in 1524 or 1526. Until recently, there were no archaeological finds to support a 1520s introduction, as the earliest closely dated physical remains were from a 1534-50 context at St Alban's Abbey (Hertfordshire) and almost all other finds have broad date ranges (Poole 2010;Fothergill 2014). Fothergill (2012) suggests that when turkeys were initially introduced to Europe their status as exotic animals meant they were more likely to be used for display purposes rather than food.…”

Section: Turkeys In Celebrationsmentioning

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Celebrating Easter, Christmas and their associated alien fauna

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Easter and Christmas are the most important events in the Christian calendar. Despite their global reach and cultural significance, astonishingly little is known about the festivals' genesis. Equally obscure is our understanding of the animals that have come to be associated with these celebrationsnotably the Christmas Turkey and the Easter 'Bunny' (brown hare and the European rabbit). Like Christianity, none of these animals are native to Britain and the timing and circumstances of their arrivals are poorly understood, often obfuscated by received wisdom. This paper firstly refines the biocultural histories of the species that, in contemporary Britain, form integral parts of Easter and Christmas festivities. Secondly, we celebrate the nonnative species which have played such an important role in the creation of Britain's cultural heritage.

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Bird Introductions

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Identifying Bird Remains Using Ancient DNA Barcoding

Identifying Bird Remains Using Ancient DNA Barcoding

South Africa as a Donor of Alien Animals

Celebrating Easter, Christmas and their associated alien fauna

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