InvasiveAction!

Welcome to Invasive Action. This is a website dedicated to the promotion and education of less invasive wildlife biology practices within the scientific community.

1. The use of wildlife rehabilitation and other collaborative data to obtain individual or population data without the increased need for capture
2. The use of local genetic material to perform environmental DNA assays to reduce the need for capture in presence/absence, diet studies and, possibly with further development population density surveys
3. The use of genetic material to facilitate a tag-less band-less mark recapture program.
4. End the necessity to use tags that require surgical procedures in all projects

Although the use of capture, invasive tagging methods such as collars, dyes, even body part removal are considered morally acceptable scientific practices by the general community as most of them have not been proven to have a significant affect on survivability. This group believes that individual stress and suffering should be considered in all wildlife practices and the minimization of that stress and suffering should be minimized by the biologist and should be one of the number one concerns when developing methods for projects. By following these practices and utilizing exisiting genetic materials for information we reduces the man hours spent in the field disturbing natural populations and we can also minimize the occurrences of accidental deaths, injuries, and the spread of diseases like chytrid fungus

Our group would like to expand the current information here to include genetic information for each individual case. We are currently restricted in this venture by a lack of budget and materials. We currently require DNeasy kits and a continuous frost laboratory freezer. If you would like to donate to this organization to help us with these efforts

We have designed a program to download and analyse our data. This was done modeling some code from Donoghue and Associates and with the help of Dr. James Graham Please download the zipfile and extract files to the C: drive and select the finalproject.py script. This should bring up a prompt for species. If you do not have ArcGIS installed on your computer please select the script that says CONTAINED. This software was designed to be used with python 2.7 and ArcMap 10.1 programs.

ANALIPRO version alpha 1.0

1. Significant causes of injury to wildlife within Humboldt County through July 1, 2013

   All Injuries

   Non-Native cases

Avian Pox	Barbed Wire
Cat Attacks	Contamination and Oilings including the 2012 pelican response
Dog Attacks	Electric Fence
Fishing Hazards	Hit by Car
Kidnapped young	Orphaned young
Road Strike	Trapped Animals
Tree Triming	Window Strike

2. Wildlife Rehabilitation and Genetic Information for Humboldt County by Species

   Acorn Woodpecker	African spur-thighed tortise
   Aleutian Goose	Allen's Hummingbird
   Allen's Chipmunk	American Bittern
   American Coot	American Crow
   American Goldfinch	American Kestrel
   American Robin	Anna's Hummingbird
   Bald Eagle	Barn Owl
   Barred Owl	Belted Kingfisher
   Bewick's Wren	Big brown bat
   Black bear	Black Capped Chickadee
   Black Crowned Night Heron	Black Headed Grosbeak
   Black-tailed jack rabbit	Black Pheobe
   Black Rat	Botta's Pocket Gopher
   Brandt's Cormorant	Brant goose
   Brewer's Blackbird	Brown creeper
   Brown headed cow bird	Brown Pelican
   Brush Rabbit	Band Tailed Pigeon
   Bufflehead	Bullock's Oriole
   Buttler's Garter Snake	Cassin's Auklet
   California Gull	California Ground Squirrel
   California Vole	Canada Goose
   California Quail	. Caspian Tern
   Cedar waxwing	Chestnut-backed Chickadee
   Clark's Grebe	Cliff Swallow
   Common Loon	Common Merganser
   Common Mouse	Common Murre
   Common Poorwill	Common Raven
   Common Snipe	Cook's Petrel
   Cooper's Hawk	Coyote
   Dark Eyed Junco	Deer Mouse
   Desert Cottontail	Double Crested Cormorant
   (Domestic Duck)	(Domestic Ferret)
   (Domestic Guinea pig)	(Domestic Turkey)
   Douglas Squirrel	Downy Woodpecker
   Dunlin	Dusky footed woodrat
   Eared Grebe	Eurasian Collard Dove
   European Starling	Evening Grosbeak
   Fisher	Fox Sparrow
   Fork-tailed storm petrel	Glaucous-winged gull
   Golden crowned kinglet	Golden Crowned Sparrow
   Gray Fox	Graylag Goose
   Great Blue Heron	Great Horned Owl
   	Great Egret
   Greater Yellow Legs	Greater Scaup
   Green Heron	Green Winged Teal
   Hairy Woodpecker	Heermann's Gull
   Herring Gull	Hermit Thrush
   Hoary Bat	House Finch
   Horned Grebe	House Sparrow
   Killdeer	Lazuli Bunting
   Lesser Goldfinch	Least Sandpiper
   Leech's Storm petrel	Lincoln's Sparrow
   Little Brown Bat	Long Billed Dowitcher
   Long Eared Owl	Long Tailed Duck
   Long Tailed Weasel	Mallard
   Merlin	Mexican Free-tailed Bat
   Mink	Mourning Dove
   Mule Deer(juveniles)	Muscovy Duck
   Northern Flicker	Northern Fulmar
   Northern Harrier	Northern Mockingbird
   Northern Pintail	Northern Pygmy Owl
   Northern Raccoon	Northern Saw-whet Owl
   Northern Spotted Owl	Orange-crowned Warbler
   (Virginia) Opossum	Osprey
   Pacific Jumping Mouse	Pacific Loon
   Pacific Wren	Pelagic Cormorant
   Peregrine Falcon	Pine Siskin
   Pied-billed Grebe	Ring Billed Gull
   Red breasted Sapsucker	Ruby-crowned Kinglet
   Red Crossbill	Redhead Duck
   Red-necked Grebe	Red-necked Phalarope
   Red Phalarope	Red Shouldered Hawk
   Red Tailed Hawk	Red Throated Loon
   Red Winged Blackbird	Rhinoceros Auklet
   Ring-tailed Cat	River Otter
   Rock Dove	Rough Skinned Newt
   Ruddy Duck	Ruffed Grouse
   Rufous Hummingbird	Sharp Shinned Hawk
   Sandpiper	Short Eared Owl
   Siskyou Chipmunk	Snow Goose
   Sooty Shearwater	Song Sparrow
   Stellar's Jay	Spotted Skunk
   Striped Skunk	Surf Scoter
   Swainson's Thrush	Thayer's Gull
   Townsend's Warbler	Townsend's Vole
   Tree Swallow	Tufted Puffin
   Turkey Vulture	Vagrant Shrew
   Vaux's Swift	Varied Thrush
   Violet Green Swallow
   Virginia Rail	Wandering Tattler
   White Crowned Sparrow	Western Grebe
   Western Gull	Western Gray Squirrel
   Western Pond Turtle	Western Pocket Gopher
   Western Tanager	Western Sandpiper
   Western Scrub Jay	Western Screech owl
   Western Wood Peewee	White Tailed Kite
   White Throated Sparrow	White Throated Swift
   White Winged Scoter	Wild Turkey
   Wilson's Warbler	Wood Duck
   Wren	Yellow Rumped Warbler

   Data obtained from the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center

3. Environmental DNA information

USGS Fact Sheet

The original purpose for collecting genetic data from randomly sampled local wildlife was to create a database to support environmental DNA assays. Here is a link to the USGS protocol which not only explains the ways in which this technique can be used but also the important role local DNA samples play in it's use.

Created by Jennifer Mahoney. Images by Laura Corsiglia or used via google images. Data collected at the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center. We would like to expand our data sources to include other groups and focus areas. If you would like to participate in our expansion please send an email to: jrm137@humboldt.edu NAD 1983 UTM Zone 10 Some error is present because locations are estimated from rescue information. There is also error presented in family cases. Cases that include families of animals may have clustered data points falsley indicating events of multiple injuries.