As this website evolves, I will add regular project updates. This may involve recently captured coyotes, highlights of radio-tracking sessions, interesting observations on our captive coyote pups at the Stone Zoo, or anything of special note. They will go in roughly chronological order as events unfold (Red font indicates updated information for a specific link).
Please, no student report information requests! Although a report on coyotes in Massachusetts is a great topic the number of requests for school reports can be overwhelming (especially since my primary mission is to be in the field studying coyotes). Rather, please use this website as a guide to help you find the information that you are looking for on eastern coyotes.
I would also like to thank Ralph Maughan and his Rocky Mountain (mainly Yellowstone) wolf report webpage for giving me the idea to add this link to my website...
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!
November 1, 2005. An overdue update: Not much currently going on with my research now that I am post-PhD.
July 5, 2005. News-report: eastern coyotes are probably coy-wolves. This is what I have always thought. Currently over 50 of our eastern Massachusetts coyote samples are being tested for origin by a lab in Ontario.
July 5, 2005. Field update: I have my PhD!, we captured a new coyote, this page is about to drastically change due to the unfortunate actions by a minority of people intentially trying to kill our study animals and/or ruin our research and outreach efforts.
April 28, 2005. The north Boston coyotes were poisoned! How awful. Updated July 5, 2005. It is verified: the entire family died from rat poison.
April 19, 2005. Green Grant Youth Council Earth Day Celebration on May 21. Attend!
April 8, 2005. Please do not feed eastern coyotes: keep them wild!
April 7, 2005. north Boston update: Bad, awful, then beyond belief. Please help by donating...
March 9, 2005. Update: finishing dissertation; 3 collared coyotes shot on Cape Cod; Casper information; Boston information; Fog information; Captive Coyotes; future research. Updated on April 8, 2005. Casper is re-located!
September 16, 2004. Breaking News: new coyote captured in Everett: The 4th in 1 social group! Plus, speak out against wbz channel 4's awful coyote newstory. Update 3-9-05: pictures of Cour added.
March 9, 2005. Annual coyote report is now available.
November 10, 2004. My research is slammed in an unprofessional manner. I respond. Please read then help me out! Updated 12-6-04: Some readers speak out in defense of me!
November 22, 2004. We found Fog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! An amazing story.
October 18, 2004. Get out and vote!!! Check out my stance.
October 13, 2004. Field update: Lots going on!
August 30, 2004. Field update for Boston and Cape Cod.
June 30, 2004. Field update: Boston and Cape Cod coyote update. A coyote finally netlaunched (in north Boston)!
May 25, 2004. Field update (lots happening lately): Captive coyote update; 2 coyotes captured last week; Fog is M.I.A. in Boston; Cale found on Cape.
May 10, 2004. Field update: Tracking of Fog, details; bizarre pup encounter in the wild.
April 14, 2004. Good and bad field news (incl. a new coyote captured); captive coyote update.
March 15, 2004. 2 coyotes captured: 1 each on Cape Cod and north Boston!
March 9, 2004. 2003 Annual coyote report is now available.
March 9, 2004. Pictures from my Yellowstone National Park 8 day expedition (Feb 27 - Mar 6, 2004).
March 9, 2004. Field update: Coyote hunting on the Cape; Brief captive coyote update; Publications page added to my webpage.
February 17, 2004. Field update: captive and free ranging coyote update. Lupe tries to mate with Caon. Cale located during radio-tracking on Cape Cod.
February 4, 2004. Field update: Coyote captured on Cape Cod; still no coyotes captured in north Boston; Lupe & Cane observed mating last week.
January 8, 2004. Field update: Boston and Cape Cod wild coyote information; outrage: coyotes shot to rot by hunters including Slot, the red coyote, near Sandy Neck Beach. Updated Jan. 25. The server is finally up at Boston College so I can post this update from Jan. 8
December 8, 2003. Click here to view winter pictures of Cane, Caon, and Lupe. They look great in the recent blizzard (24+").
November 25, 2003. Field Update: Good and Bad news: New coyote (40 lb male) collared on Cape Cod; coyote escapes netlauncher net in Melrose (north Boston)
November 12, 2003. Field Update: The captive coyotes are divided into 2 groups. Wild coyote update.
June 23, 2003. Breaking news: Radio-collared coyote killed in Harwich. Updated July 7. The coyote was Glif...Also, in other news I saw Sill at Mole's old rendezvous site.
May 25, 2003. Brief Field Update: New captive coyote pictures, hog trap. Updated July 7. Pictures of the coyotes during winter are finally all here! Late chasing Trans finishes off the pictorial guide of the coyotes!
June 26, 2003. Summer coyote pictures and coyotes in the news.
June 18, 2003. New pictures of the captive coyotes. Click directly on this link or, as usual, go to the captive coyotes on exhibit section in the homepage for this website and scroll through until you reach the current date. There are 3 pages of new pictures!
June 17, 2003. Death of a matriarch: Mole (from Cape Cod) is dead
April 14, 2003. Brief Field Update
March 25, 2003. Field Update: Bart is dead, captive coyote update, miscellaneous information
February 19, 2003. Miscellaneous pictures: mostly of trapping; also coyote-killed seal
February 19, 2003. Another update on Bart: We find him in a plywood den staying out of the snow.
February 16, 2003. Another update: News on Bart (the new coyote); Coyote-killed seal; Fisher pictures
February 12, 2003. Finally, we capture another coyote in North Boston; plus, captive pup update
January 11, 2003. Brief field update with hawk pictures.
January 2, 2003. New pictures of coyotes on exhibit by amateur photographer Ed McGuirk.
December 30, 2002. Last update of 2002: Annual Coyote Report Available, Revere/N. Boston update, pup update. Updated January 2, 2003: Correction: 2 starlings also captured in 2002 in N. Boston.
December 10, 2002. Finally another update: Journal updates, Revere research, pups, plus new pictures of the pups. Updated December 16, 2002: Pictures of our gray fox capture
October 17, 2002. Update from field, plus new pictures of the pups.
September 26, 2002. There is a page of new pictures of the pups and I. Either click here to obtain the direct link or go to the mainpage/homepage and click on pups on exhibit and go to the 6th frame of pictures.
September 23, 2002. "Defenders of Wildlife?" Or "Defenders of certain types of Wildlife?". Plus new pictures of me and the pups.
September 18, 2002. Protect coyotes from being snared in Maine.
September 18, 2002. Real Tracker ticker finally added to my website's homepage. So log in and give me some hits!
September 9, 2002. Amazing: A fisher captured in box trap in Saugus! Update: Sept. 12. Pictures of the fisher that we trapped.
September 6, 2002. Article on our coyote study in the Boston Globe North and Northwest sections. Also, a brief field update.
September 3, 2002. Book on Cape Cod coyotes: Coyotes in the neighborhood by Peter Trull
August 28, 2002. Miscellanous information: pup news, trapping updates, new website links, new pictures.
August 8, 2002. Miscellanous information: pup news, trapping updates, new pictures.
July 24, 2002. Letter to the editor of Cape Cod Times on coyotes.
July 24, 2002. Miscellaneous information: Paper accepted to Wildlife Society Bulletin; Boston coyote information; Pup body weights; Additional pictures to website added.
July 24, 2002. 2002 Coyote Report for Boston. Prepared by Mr. David Eatough, science teacher at Revere High School. Dave and his students are currently some of the main players in our Boston study.
July 24, 2002. A very classy letter emailed to me regarding a talk I did at the Stone Zoo on July 20.
July 16, 2002. Cape Cod coyote update. Great data obtained from Massachusetts Aubudon summer field school. Update: July 24. More pictures from the trip!
July 16, 2002. Revere/North Boston coyote update. Sad news: Maple is dead.
July 8, 2002. Revere/North Boston coyote update. Maple's pups finally found and a second adult finally documented in her group.
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