Just reviewed an old trail cam I forgot about and found a black coyote sighting a few times in late 2022. Only one of the pictures was during the day.

I visited a rural, mountainous area of the northeastern US where wolves were absent for a long time but there have been a few recent documented sightings. I stayed in a cabin adjacent to park land and there were tons of bears, coyotes and other wildlife. I heard coyote group vocalizations nightly.

One night, I was driving back to the cabin and a large canine about the size of a Malamute crossed the road in front of my car. It looked and behaved differently than the coyotes I saw a ton of out west while hiking. Not only was it taller and stockier, but it seemed unafraid of my car, walking slowly and confidently. It turned and looked at me like, "This is MY road. What do you think you're doing here?"

After I got home (about a mile from where I saw this animal), I went out to the back porch and heard a lone wolf-like howl. I looked up wolf vocalizations and it matched. The howl repeated from the same location for at least an hour and there was no response. Whenever I had heard coyote vocalizations, other coyotes would respond from different directions. But this was a lone howl and was not responded to.

My dog heard it and didn't react to it like he does to domestic dog vocalizations. He'll respond if it's a domestic dog, but this sounded different and he just listened like he does with wild animal calls.

The animal I saw was definitely a wild canine, not a domestic dog. It looked like either a wolf or a coyote (and I know coyotes in the northeast look more wolf-like).

I'm just struck by the look that it gave me. It was so different from western coyote behavior, where they act skittish and avoidant of people. This animal just walked through a cluster of houses and across a road, staring me down in this really assertive kind of way.

And my first thought when I saw it was, "big chunky Alaskan Malamute." It was SO much bigger than coyotes I've seen before. It was bigger than my 70 lb pitbull.

Just moved to our property outside Thunder Bay and we definitely have coyotes. We want to plant berries but are worried about attracting black bears. Will the large coyote presence (and occasional wolf pack) deter the bears from showing up?

I live in the mountains on the east coast, tons of wildlife, the woods in my backyard are full of abandoned and sometimes occupied dens, however i haven't heard coyotes howling for several months. i know we've had them around forever, i was chased by a family of them almost a year ago while i was walking my dogs, i just can't figure out if they're still around. i don't see any reason they would've left, there's tons of prey around for them, and my dogs are constantly finding bones in the woods on our walks, but it seems weird for them to be so quiet if they're around.

just wondering for if anyone knows if they could still be around, or if i would definitely hear them if they were?

Ive searched the internet but couldnt find a proper answer. They look so similar to me.

Will a group of coyotes / eastern coyotes or possible coywolves near the NY / VT / Canadian border go after someone if you accidentally run into them while they have taken down a fresh kill or are eating ? I ask because I work in that area and just walked to the back of the property where I watch over a work site and I saw three coyotes or coywolves run to the right around some bushes and I turned my flash light on and I saw the eye shine of two of them just looking straight at me and just staring at me. I heard rustling all around the whole area so I just went back to the office and figured I'd wait a bit. Just wanted to ask if they are something I should worry about or not? I'm not gonna call the cops or anything like that. I leave the site at 6am so I can just stay in the office but my job is to patrol that area on foot. Idk just asking.

Can anyone help explain this call/sound? Was he hurt, looking for food? I was backpacking in the woods near a creek in the Bay Area, and this one coyote was making this exact sound for at least 15 mins back to back, at an even higher frequency than shown in the video. Definitely a coyote or similar, since I saw paw prints on the muddy trail a few 100 feet from my site in the morning.

https://reddit.com/link/1bquy72/video/j22cbepx5brc1/player

I was always under the impression coyotes were grey, but evidently not. The warehouse I work out of has a large field in back of it see one or two of these guys quite often.

I'm wondering if this behavior is just exclusive to dogs or if its something else that coyotes also do and maybe other canidae animals?

My friends and I live in the Windsor Essex region of Ontario and we were recently exploring a county road. We found a small area with an oil fracking machine, and next to it, a nice ditch with water trickling through. Looking into the ditch, my friend spotted a coyote in the water, laying in its side, dead. Looked like it couldn’t have been there for more than 12 hours. Up higher on the rocky side of the ditch layed another, in a resting position. We found 3 more in the water, cuddled together, dead, and another 2 a little down the stream. There was no wounds and signs of struggle. Any idea what this could have been? It’s been tripping me out all day.

UPDATE

a local environmental worker looked into it and it turns out they were shot and dumped :(

National Coyote Day is March 23. Leading up to it, Project Coyote has launched an awareness campaign through this week. I personally think this is a great idea as it gets people thinking about pushing educational materials via social media.

Sadly, it’s estimated that at least 1, maybe more, coyotes die in the US every minute. Public education promoting coexistence is key to changing the negative perception people have on coyotes and other predators. Science has proven predators are essential components to healthy ecosystems.

I encourage you to follow any organization that promotes natural predators, including coyotes, to educate yourself and give you information to educate your family, friends, neighbors, and community. If we continue on our current path, habitats surrounding our homes will be vastly different for future generations.

Please list one of your favorite pro-coyote organizations below that others can reach out to for additional information. Thanks.

Whenever the snow is wet and heavy, or forms a thick crust, these coyotes take advantage. They did well with their pouncing hunt this morning.