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MONCTON NATURE NEWS
Feb 3, 2022 (Thursday)
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**Catherine Hamilton shares a photo of an Eastern Coyote she photographed in a field near Petitcodiac on Tuesday.
Catherine poses an interesting
question that deserves more comment. Catherine asks, “would this be a coyote or
a coywolf?”
The term ‘coywolf’ could be
classed as a misnomer (editor's opinion standing to be corrected) as all of our
Eastern coyote have coyote and wolf genes in their DNA makeup. As the Prairie
Coyote moved eastward, it picked up both genes on route as it crossbred with
the wolf to produce what we have in Eastern Canada, the Eastern Coyote.
Note that the Eastern Coyote carries its tail downward with a dark tip of the tail and a dark spot at the tail head. The pelage of the Eastern Coyote can be quite variable.
** An update on what’s taking place at Doreen Rossiter’s Alma birdfeeder yard: the Carolina Wren and Fox Sparrow
are both still patrons. Doreen also had a visit from a female Northern
Cardinal and a Horned Lark came by as well. It is the first time
Doreen recalls having a Horned Lark visit in winter. They were usually
springtime visitors.
** Lynda Leclerc had an influx of approximately 75 American Robins to her yard Mountain Ash tree on Tuesday, February 1 to pick it clean other than fragments left on the ground on Wednesday. In amongst them were 2 Cedar Waxwings that chose to watch over instead of competing with the robins.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
