Surprised to see coyotes in NY although I know they’ve been there a while, but why?
Dead coyote now. I guess they are checking for rabies.
big problem - they caused a hell of a problem with the deer hunt this past fall - there were days when I would take the atv around my property and not see a single deer track and packs of coyote tracks - some big ones too - 40-50#
Highly adaptable, broad range. Plus, the “eastern coyote” is a coyote-wolf hybrid. It’s much larger than the western variant and is much bolder in certain circumstances.
... oh yeah, pack hunters too.
Coyotes are a real problem here in Connecticut.
They get bolder every year.
Plenty of deer, rodents, small pets. They don’t have any competition for food and they’ve adapted to living near people.
Had a rabid coyote (foam dripping from its mouth) walk right past me about 15 years ago. Maybe 15 feet away from me while I was dragging trash to the curb. It didn’t even know I was there and it didn’t care about all the noise I was making. I was lucky.
I live in a suburb of the Twin Cities. See 1 or 2 a week. They are so common that the local police have a coyote section on their web page. Do not call the police. They will not respond. Just stay out of the coyotes way and keep your pets in the house.
Seriously.
I cannot recall the source but I read once that there is no county in the United States that does not have coyotes in it. There was a citation of some spotted in downtown Chicago.
Although I have not seen them where I live, I know they're there since I've heard them and I've found coyote scat on my property (rural central Virginia).
They are NOT “coyotes”. They are grey wolf/coyote crosses from Canada and they are in most of the east now.
Bigger and more aggressive than coyotes and hunt in packs. Killed a female singer who was hiking in Nova Scotia a few years ago.
My guess is rabies,