Living with Eastern Coyotes: The Incredible Story of our Newest Wild Neighbors

Came across this video after I seen a pack of 4/5 coyotes in pennsauken nj

Yo lo acabó de ver este domingo por la madrugada 2023 aquí en New Jersey

Thank you for taking the time to put together this excellent presentation! We've been aware of our local urban Eastern Coyote population for a while, but more aware lately as they've been incredibly vocal. It's mating season, they like it here and they want to make sure everybody knows it! I live just inside the city limits of Pittsburgh, PA on about an acre of wood-lined property and I can tell you with much certainty - they are here! As I mentioned, they've been very vocal lately and I wanted to learn as much as I could about them, their preferred habitat, how they move through and see the world. I'm most likely going to be talking to a lot of neighbors with concerns about it and I wanted to be as educated as I could in doing so. This presentation covered not only the basic zoological aspects of the species, but also some cultural significance. Didn't expect that, but very much enjoyed it! Thanks again so much for this!

I live in the countryside of north central MD very close the PA line. Coyotes are abundant around here; if you listen at night they are commonly heard. I was raising free range, egg laying chickens for the better part of two years, and was naive about how risky that was until my birds disappeared all at once. In the span of an hour, I lost ten out of eleven hens. Never found a body, or even a feather. From what I understand, coyotes will cooperate to raid a chicken coup, and are known to “case” it like a group of burglars. Do not underestimate their power, especially if you have smaller farm animals living outdoors.

When people defend culling/hunting, they’ll mention annual farmer losses. But many things cause damage besides predators, like weather. Plus, people misidentify all the time. I had a neighbor convinced a coyote got her cat until someone else’s security cam showed a dog. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I live in Newport Rhode Island and we have them everywhere. I have 120 pound pitbull mastiff mix and I’ve seen coyotes just as tall as him, easily pushing 70 pounds but skinny. They say they run in small packs but here on the island they have numbers like 12 to 15 and some of the packs of even joined together to create super packs. They seem to be bigger here on the island than just 10 miles or so away on the mainland. They run through my neighborhood at 9:30 every night and then again around 2 AM but I’ve seen one roaming just a month ago in the middle of the day with not a care in the world. It was mating season though so they are just everywhere during that time. There was a black one someone posted on Facebook one town over. Looked like a wolf

On grand island, in western New York, the coyote actually vary a bit in color and size. We have had a very large, very red pair here on the Niagara riverfront for a few years. Others we see in the area are much more gray and smaller. I remember a black pair when I was a kid but that was on the other side of the island and forty years ago so who knows what I really saw!

I’ve seen eastern coyotes in upstate NY that easily tip the scales at around 50 or so lbs. My neighbor saw one that he thought was an Alaskan Malamute on his horse farm - but confirmed it was an Eastern Coyote or he thought it could have been an eastern Coyote/ eastern Wolf hybrid. This hybrid is quite common just south of Algonquin Park in Ontario.

The ones I see on Cape Cod seem to appear more stressed than these do. They look like dogs that are malnourished. One chased our 2 cats from our yard smack in the middle of the day with us sitting right there! One cat went up a tall locust and refused to come down, the other easily outran the coyote. We chased the critter away, got the sprinter back indoors, never to leave again, and borrowed a super-tall ladder to coax the terrified kitty down. Quite the afternoon.

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