Badge design by Tim Ballard, Photo by Jean DuSablon
Have you recently seen a coyote and are unsure what to do?
Use our self-serve coyote encounter tool to evaluate your sighting.
It is normal to see coyotes in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Coyotes live across the Portland metro area. Learn more or report your sighting using our tool.
At the Portland Urban Coyote Project, we seek to understand how people and coyotes interact and to help the community learn about our coyote neighbors.
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Coyotes are intelligent and adaptive animals that have expanded their range across North America over the last 200 years.
Coyotes can survive and thrive in a wide variety of habitats—including our own backyards! The Portland Urban Coyote Project studies how humans and coyotes interact in the Portland metropolitan area. Please help us with our research by reporting any time you see or hear a coyote in our metro area. Explore our website to learn more about the coyotes that call this area home. |
Coyotes Live Here by Zuriel van Belle
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Who are we?
We are a team of community members, biologists, geographers, and researchers from Portland State University, Oregon State University, and Willamette Riverkeeper. Our project collaborates with partners throughout the Portland metro region, including Bird Alliance of Oregon, Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District, and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. We collect and analyze the coyote sightings you report and share our findings here.
Who can participate in the project?
Anyone! We encourage community scientists of all ages. In fact, a class of second graders from Alameda Elementary School were the first community scientists to collect data for this project!
How can I get involved?
Be sure to report your coyote observations, share our project, and consider joining the Coyote Crew.
Help us improve!
Our project is run by a small team of researchers and community members who are passionate about understanding how humans and coyotes interact and providing evidence-based information about living with coyotes. We want to make sure our project stays sustainable and useful so we want to hear from YOU. Thank you!