What are your favorite transplanted animal species which have been accepted as "native."

Muntjacer23 said:
As a Brit, I love hunting Muntjac! Awesome little deer! Hardy little things, lots of character, taste great and can be hunted all year round in the UK as they are classed as an invasive species!View attachment 779831
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A nice muntjac buck is high on my list. I love those little guys! That’s a beauty.
 
Elk in Big Bend....

Pheasants anywhere...
 
Ringneck pheasant all over the world but Asia.
Black wildebeest in Namibia (I took my first there)

Lots and lot of fish, such as.

Brown trout everywhere but Europe.
Carp in the UK, western Europe, I think South Africa, and yes US.
Rainbow trout in the eastern US and brook trout in the west. And all the salmon species and steelhead in the great lakes.
 
If it wasn’t for the introduced game Australia and New Zealand would be a pretty boring place for hunters. As for introduced trout and salmon in NZ…there would be next to no fresh water fishing without them.

As to my favourite? Chamois or maybe whitetail deer in NZ…..probably chamois.
 
Iguanas in South Florida, same with peacock bass.
 
steve white said:
Invasive species that have become so well rooted they can't easily be dislodged count, too!

Is it sambar or another heavy boned deer that inhabits a certain South Pacific island?

And chital are overpopulated on a Hawaiian island.
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In this case, the Sambar deer would be one of my favorites, but I never shot one.
 
Rusa, just like on Mauritius, where very fine, big trophies are currently taken. I never was there and would not go, it is all too touristy for me, but I know a hunter which hunts on Mauritius regularly.
 
Many more non-native fish around than people realize. 15 minutes from the house I can catch landlocked sockeye salmon, rainbow trout, brown trout, brook trout, cutthroat trout, walleye, carp, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, black crappie, northern pike, channel catfish, yellow perch. The only native fish on the list is the cutthroat.

Favorite/desirable or accepted as native?? I enjoy fly fishing cutthroats in the smaller, higher elevation streams the most. In the lower elevation reservoirs, I enjoy fly fishing for smallmouth bass in the spring using poppers.
 
In UK, the fallow deer was introduced more than 2000 years ago now and it is consider as a native species, at least for people I spoke with. I had a great time in the past to hunt them in the Glouchestershire.

In my country, the rabbit is considered everywhere as a native species while in real, it was introduced in the northern part by Romans like fallow deers. I really liked rabbit hunting when I was still a youngster. I had a great time, walking alone, or with my father, along vines and through little thickets to find them. Sometimes a fellow hunter joined us with a little dog who went into thicker places to chase them.
 
Pheasant.
Axis Deer in Texas.

This picture is from a lease my cousin has near Canyon lake.

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In Europe / UK, I am going to go with Chinese Water Deer, just so cool & great to stalk & good eating.

In Australasia, I would go with tahr in NZ on the South Island.

When it comes to birds I guess it would have to be pheasant & as for fish brown trout in New Zealand !

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Musk Oxen in the Kangerlussuaq area of Greenland.

They were transplanted from Northeastern Greenland in the 1960'ties.

Their natural habitat on Greenland is in the North and Northeast, where few people have access.
 
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Kalthoff said:
Musk Oxen in the Kangerlussuaq area of Greenland.

They were transplanted from Northeastern Greenland in the 1960'ties.

Their natural habitat on Greenland is in the North and Northeast, where few people have access.
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A large number of Reindeer and Caribous have also been reintroduced in the southwest of Greenland. While there was an original population of Caribou in Greenland in the past, they were decimated or went extinct, as it was the case in the northeast and north of the island.
 
Ryan said:
Ringneck pheasant all over the world but Asia.
Black wildebeest in Namibia (I took my first there)

Lots and lot of fish, such as.

Brown trout everywhere but Europe.
Carp in the UK, western Europe, I think South Africa, and yes US.
Rainbow trout in the eastern US and brook trout in the west. And all the salmon species and steelhead in the great lakes.
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Someone back in the 17th century said, when he arrived in America, "what, you've got no sable/" He was German and sable was what he called carp. He went back and brought over some live carp in two barrels, put them in a pond in New England, and the eggs attached to heron legs spread them all over the continent.
Which is to say, I would like to go back in time and assassinate him before he brought them here!

Don't get me started on the wisdom of FWS bringing in crass carp....
 
steve white said:
Someone back in the 17th century said, when he arrived in America, "what, you've got no sable/" He was German and sable was what he called carp. He went back and brought over some live carp in two barrels, put them in a pond in New England, and the eggs attached to heron legs spread them all over the continent.
Which is to say, I would like to go back in time and assassinate him before he brought them here!

Don't get me started on the wisdom of FWS bringing in crass carp....
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Bringing in common carp was the first shots of the First World War, just like when the Japanese “gifted” us kudzu was the first shots of the Second World War.
Agree on all of the carp, grass carp, big head carp, silver carp and the common carp. I worked with grass carp and they HAD a place but all should’ve been certified Triploid so they couldn’t reproduce.
 
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