Volunteers tracking coyotes in Edmonton report spike in sightings
Global News
In a three-month period last year, volunteers reported seeing 64 coyotes. This year, volunteers reported seeing 20 in just the first week.
Volunteers with Edmonton’s Urban Coyote Project have just started a new season of field tracking and already numbers are up significantly compared to last year.
Colleen Cassady St. Clair, a biological sciences professor at the University of Alberta, has been leading the project for the last 12 years.
“When the volunteers see a coyote during the day in a residential area that let’s them get as close as 40 metres, we consider that to be a coyote that is too bold around people,” she explained.
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Self-described nature lover Cheryl Locicero started volunteering with the project after seeing multiple coyotes in her community.
“Then I started to see coyotes at our bird feeder. They would eat both the seeds and they’d dig and dig and dig and get the mice,” she said.
One day, she opened her front door and found a bold coyote had gone after her pet.
That incident crossed the line and she found out about the project and decided to volunteer.
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