THE GOTHAM URBAN COYOTE PROJECT has been evaluating and studying the Eastern Coyotes that now call New York City and surrounding environs home........They have been following one of the first NYC Eastern Coyotes to make a permanent home in Queens, New York City--- view on video(below)................"As determined by scat analysis, he(male) is at least 10 years old now, old for a wild coyote"

One of the first NYC Eastern Coyotes coyote to make a permanent home in Queens is pictured on the video below:

He is at least 10 years old now, old for a wild coyote.

Queens Coyote video

https://www.facebook.com/gothamcoyote/videos/374819833398507/?t=5

THE GOTHAM URBAN COYOTE PROJECT in the NYC Metropolitan area has been able to get DNA from his scat, which identifies him as a male, related to the coyotes living in the Pelham Bay Park in the northeast Bronx.

As far as we know, no other coyotes have penetrated the urban jungle into Queens as far as he has and made a permanent home there.

He's lived quietly in a small wooded area for a long time now, alone. Nearly every spring we find a den that he has dug, but no females have shown up yet to join him.

Coyotes in NYC urban woodlands-video

https://www.facebook.com/gothamcoyote/videos/1336534546512431/?t=9

Connectivity between patches of habitat are very important for wildlife populations in suburban and urban environments.

This guy managed to travel, we believe, along railroad tracks through NYC to find his current home.

It was a long shot for him to make it, and for a second coyote to survive the same journey (and happen to be the opposite sex) is even more unlikely.

This is why things like habitat corridors, wildlife crossings over or under highways, and undeveloped green spaces are so important for urban wildlife.

Eastern Coyotes under the George Washington Bridge in Washington Heights, Manhattan, NYC

Eastern Coyotes photographed in NYC and surrounding suburbs