Eastern coyote

Coyote problems increase in late winter as mating season begins. Take extra precautions if you have dogs, cats or infants.

"People living in Eastern Canada and U.S. are probably familiar with the smart, adaptable wild canine that lives in their forests, neighborhood parks and even cities. What they may not know is that eastern coyotes aren’t true coyotes at all. They might better be known as hybrids, or coywolves."

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As we entered the thick of the coyote mating season, it was fitting that a recent Thursday night – February 14, Valentine’s Day – saw a packed Lecture Center on the SUNY New Paltz campus for a presentation titled “Coexisting with Coyotes,” with Melissa Gillmer, head zookeeper of the Trailside Museums and Zoo at Bear Mountain State Park.

Coyote

A coywolf is a canid hybrid of coyotes, eastern wolves, and gray wolves. According to genomic research, all North American gray wolf populations share a mixture with coyotes, with the lowest amounts seen in Alaska and the greatest in Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada. Keep reading to learn everything you need to know about this […]

The eastern coyote is a relative newcomer to New York state that began to appear in the 1930s.

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Neighborhood Nature 🌲 A compilation of photos I’ve been taking since February 2024. It all started when I started seeing coyote scat in my neighborhood. We used to have a pack of coyotes, something like 10 or so strong. But when late winter/early spring rolled around this year - there were no coyotes or coyote scat. Which was unlike them as they used to make themselves seen or at least heard 2-3 times a week. So when I started seeing scat around - I got excited. — And it’s important to…

Native Americans are the first people known to have named what we now call Coyotes. The Cherokees of this Coyote's region - the Smoky Mountains - called them ᏩᏯᎭ (pronounced wa-ya-ha). The Spanish later called them various names - such as "Spanish Foxes" or "Jackals" Coyotes, before settling on Coyote (which is seemingly derived from the Nahuatl name Coyōtl). Coyotes have long been considered particularly intelligent, an attribute I think this portrait reveals well.