Nick McCann, TCCFP: Scouting included four steps: First, we checked city ordinances and requested permission when ordinances prohibited livetrapping but did not include the exemption for research that most cities have. What were you looking for in terms of animals, geography or other criteria? As the winter field season ended, we chatted with Nick McCann - one of the project's principal investigators and a post-doctoral research associate in the Departmen of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at the University of Minnesota - to hear more about the project's first year, and how FMR's involvement has helped along the way.Īlex Roth, FMR ecologist: Tell us more about your trapping and collaring criteria. In the project's first field season, researchers have trapped and collared 11 animals - seven coyotes and four red foxes. This information will be used to improve habitat management and help educate the pulblic about these important predators. The goal of the project is to radio-collar urban coyotes and foxes, so researchers can track their movements, learn about their diets, and sample for diseases over a two-year period. As a partner on the Twin Cities Coyote and Fox Project (TCCFP), we’ve encouraged FMR members and volunteers to report sightings of coyotes and foxes on iNaturalist or report their willingness to let researchers capture and collar these animals on their properties.
(Photo used with permission.)īy now, you may have seen multiple FMR updates calling for reports of coyote and fox sightings in the Twin Cities. Researchers at the University of Minnesota trapped and collared this coyote over the winter as part of a larger research project to understand more about how wild canines use our urban areas.
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