Invasive species by Rielle Glover

Name

raisners27 — 2024-05-16 18:02:45 UTC

The common name is The Rock Dove. The scientific name is the Columbia livia.

General description

gloverr27 — 2024-05-16 18:10:20 UTC

The Rock Dove head, neck, and chest is a blueish grey. Along its neck and wing feathers there is yellow, green, and purple. They have red eyes and grey beaks. The feet of a Rock Dove is red.

Origin

gloverr27 — 2024-05-16 18:13:49 UTC

Skeletons of the Rock Dove have showed they originated in Southern Asia. They specifically are from Israel.

Where In Florida It Is Invading

morai27 — 2024-05-16 18:19:03 UTC

The rock dove is invading the Bay Area of Florida. They are the feral offspring of pigeons brought to this continent by European Immigrants.

Niche and ecosystem

gloverr27 — 2024-05-16 18:22:19 UTC

The Rock dove nests on the coast using sticks and straw to create their nests. They feed on seeds and grains on the ground. Peregrine falcons and Eurasian sparrow hawks are natural predators of this species.

How the Rock Dove was Introduced to Florida

raisners27 — 2024-05-16 18:22:41 UTC

Rock doves were introduced to the U.S. as pets but have adapted to urban conditions and tend to spend a lot of time in big groups in public spaces. Human introduction is the primary way rock doves are in Alaska.

Three Effects of Florida

raisners27 — 2024-05-16 18:29:27 UTC

The rock bird can displace native birds in developed areas due them being in large groups.
The rock dove carries manny parasites and pathogens that they can spread to healthy native birds.
The diseases that the rock dove carries can also be spread to humans.

Work Cited

raisners27 — 2024-05-16 18:34:06 UTC

Solutions

gloverr27 — 2024-05-17 14:05:55 UTC

Habitat modification
Nest destruction
Frightening

Habitat modification is the elimination of feeding, watering, and nesting spaces. In this people would clean up spilled grains and removing feeding areas, remove still water, and modify normal nesting areas.
Nest destruction is destroying the nest and eggs of the rock dove every couple of weeks.
Frightening would involve spraying the nest and rock doves with water until they have left.

Pros and cons of the solutions

gloverr27 — 2024-05-17 14:19:41 UTC

Pros: It is a humane solution that would decrease the population.
Cons: With habitat modification it would lessen the amount of the rock doves in the area, but it would not completely get rid of them. The rock doves would also find water and food even if people lessen them.
Pros: The solution is humane and does not take a lot of effort.
Cons: The rock dove would eventually build new nest after the destruction of their nest. It also takes consistency to work.
Pros: It does not harm the birds in any way.
Cons: The usual ways of frightening animals does not work with rock doves. Such as noised machines, Bright lights, flags, and models of predators.

Best Choice to Control the Rock Doves

raisners27 — 2024-05-19 00:39:15 UTC

We think that solution two, nest destruction, would be the best. It seems like an efficient way to force the birds to move out of the U.S. without actually harming any of the alive birds. Also by destroying the eggs in the nests it prevents more rock doves from being in the U.S. By the end most if not all rock doves should no longer be in the United States.

Needing Permission for the Solution

raisners27 — 2024-05-19 00:53:15 UTC

Yes we would probably need to get the state of Alaska’s approval before touching any of the birds nests to eggs. This would just ensure that it was okay to do.

Putting the Solution into Action

raisners27 — 2024-05-19 21:20:35 UTC

In order to make this solution work we would need multiple people every two week to go around and destroy all of the nests and eggs in the nests. This could be done by having the workers use letters to reach the trees and just removing the nest and eggs with their hands. The workers doing this would need gloves and letters to do this every two weeks.

Measuring the Success

raisners27 — 2024-05-19 21:24:26 UTC

To measure the success we could go to a public area and count how many rock doves are in that area at a certain time of the day. Then after a month of our solution of removing the nests and eggs, we can go back to the same pubic area at the same time of day and count how many rock doves are there. We could go and count every other month for six months to see if there is a decrease in the number of birds.

Rock Pigeon Food Web

morai27 — 2024-05-20 00:21:01 UTC