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MWC, through our own research, documented the first live Eastern wolf in Maine in through scat we collected in 2019. Other wolves have been killed in Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, New Brunswick and Quebec. Lawrence River since 1993 which includes wolves killed in Day, New York in 2001 and Sterling, New York in 2005. This animal is the latest of at least ten wolves known to have been killed south of the St. Lawrence River and surrounding area serve as a barrier to wolf dispersal. It has long been wrongly believed that the St. The complex nature and purity of the wolf DNA may be consistent with a wild wolf that dispersed from Canada where various wolf populations are known to intermingle. The findings concluded that the animal was effectively 100% wolf with DNA from Great Lakes wolves, Northwest Territories gray wolves and Eastern wolves, in decreasing order of DNA percentage. We thank the hunter for his cooperation, without which we would not have gotten samples for analysis. The DNA analysis was paid for by Protect the Adirondacks. In a collaborative effort between the Northeast Ecological Recovery Society (NERS) and the Maine Wolf Coalition (MWC), the hunter graciously provided tissue samples of the animal for DNA analysis, some of which were sent by NERS at considerable expense to the Natural Resources DNA Profiling and Forensic Centre at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. They have since been reinstated to the list after a successful lawsuit by wildlife advocates. At the time that it was killed, wolves had been removed from the federal Endangered Species list. The animal was killed in central New York and the hunter posted photos of the animal on social media.

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I enjoy seeing and photographing coyotes at any opportunity and the light angle yesterday was very appealing to me.Ĭlick here to view more of my Coyote photos plus facts and information about this species.DNA analysis of an 85 pound canid shot by a New York hunter in December 2021, has verified the animal to have been a wolf.

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Side lit Coyote on the shoreline – Nikon D200, f6.3, 1/640, ISO 400, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light, not baited These coyotes were on the south side of the causeway which gave me side light, almost back light, to photograph them in.Ĭoyotes are very nervous here about human presence probably due to the fact that many people shoot them so they are difficult to approach and very wary of people. Despite the high salinity of the Great Salt Lake there are times in the winter that it does ice over and that can provide some interesting settings for whatever creatures I might find there. Unfortunately they were not close enough together to get images of both of them within the frame. Yesterday I was tickled to spot not just one but a pair of coyotes on the causeway going to Antelope Island State Park. Side lit Coyote (Canis latrans) on ice – Nikon D200, f6.3, 1/800, ISO 400, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light, not baited