The only place I’ve seen Yellow-fronted Canary is in Hawaii. There’s a regular smorgasbord of birds in Hawaii that have been introduced from all over, Asia, South America, North America, Africa…
According to the linked article: “Normally, the zebras “rarely venture beyond the fence,” a Hearst descendant said, “but from time to time they do, and neighbors give us a call and we retrieve them.””.
Doesn’t sound like a wild animal to me.
It also mentions they are legally owned by the ranch. Wild animals aren’t owned by people.
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For some reason (possibly the opening of the Northwest Passage?), the Northern Gannet, Morus bassanus, usually observed on the North Atlantic coast has a small population in the San Francisco Bay Area: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=map&taxon_id=3802
Also, side note, Seabird McKeon is probably the coolest name a biologist specialising on marine birds can have.
Edit: I’m not quite sure, after a bit more research, whether all those observations are actually all of the same individual
I believe these observations are all of a single individual that showed up in 2012 and has stuck around since then. There have been similar instances of individual Black-browed Albatrosses staying around gannet colonies around the UK for many years.
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Wow… 231 observations of the same animal. That might be an iNat record?
I feel like this deserves its own topic. :D
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There’s a topic for that here. Looks like a Giant Sequoia in Sequoia National Park beats it for organisms in general, but it might win for animals!
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I never said they weren’t wild, I simply said they were free-ranging.
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