Eastern Coyote Homepage
Contents of this site: Copyright 2002 - 2007: Jonathan Way - No pictures from this website may be duplicated without my consent.
Notice July 31, 2007. I have not had access to Boston College files for months. However, I have a new website. Please go to http://www.easterncoyoteresearch.com to see the new site including being able to purchase my book Suburban Howls!
Radio-telemetry Updated 12/10/02
Watch as the pups turn into adult coyotes on exhibit Updated 7/7/03
View the 2 groups of coyotes as they are now separated starting fall 2003 Updated 4/14/04
It is my goal that after touring this website and exploring your own neck of the woods that you appreciate the coyote as much as we do. While I also love wolves (and have seen wild wolves in Yellowstone National Park and northern Minnesota), I am tired of listening to environmental groups preach about wolves and say nothing about coyotes. Why, for instance, do numerous groups want wolves restored to the northeast (which I certainly wholeheartedly support) but do nothing of the fact that coyotes can legally be killed year round in the northern New England states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont? In this light, I must praise the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife for possibly offering the most protection to coyotes of any state. In Massachusetts, coyotes can only be trapped 1 month a year and hunted for 4 (during the winter, but excluding deer season). It is my hope that more states join MassWildlife in establishing the coyote as an important furbearer.
So, please take this tour of our research project on eastern coyotes in eastern Massachusetts.
I recommend that frequent visitors to this webpage start with the updates from the field section. Conversely, first time or rare visitors to this site might want to scroll through the wild, free-ranging coyote pages and the captive coyote pages. If that is the case start with "Wild eastern coyote research" and/or "Captive eastern coyote study" and simply keep clicking next page and you will scroll through the entire section without having to come back to this page (e.g., wild coyote research will automatically have links going through the box trapping both Cape and Boston coyotes sections, then radio-telemetry pages, and finally finishing with other wildlife).