Introduction of Foxes to Alaskan Islands - History, Effects on Avifauna, and Eradication

• Main Author: Bailey, Edgar P.
• Other Authors: FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE HOMER AK
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1993
• Subjects: Biology; *MAMMALS; RATS; CANADA; ALASKA; POPULATION; SURVEYS; NORWAY; FARMS; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; ISLANDS; EAST(DIRECTION); ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; ALASKA GULF; FUR; GEESE; PENINSULAS; SQUIRRELS; *FOXES; AVIFAUNA; ERADICATION; VULPES VULPES; RED FOXES; ARCTIC FOXES; NORWAY RATS; GROUND SQUIRRELS; SPERMOPHILUS UNDULATUS; Arctic; Gulf of Alaska; Canada; Pacific; Norway; Fox Islands; Alopex lagopus; Attu; Branta canadensis; Branta canadensis leucopareia; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA322590; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA322590

Foxes originally were absent from most Alaskan islands in the North Pacific. Red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) were indigenous to the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutians and to some islands off the Alaska Peninsula and in the Gulf of Alaska. The first recorded introduction of foxes was in 1750 when Russian...