STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Hawks and foxes and coyotes, oh my!<\/p>\n
Mike Donovan, a Graniteville resident, recently captured a photo of what appears to be a coyote on a neighborhood street.<\/p>\n
The canine creature with a predominantly gray coat was seen on Pyramid Court in the vicinity of Lamberts Lane at around 7:45 p.m. Thursday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was driving, I pulled over and I said, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s a big boy,\u2019\u201d Donovan said. \u201cI thought maybe it was a dog or something, like a stray dog, and I stopped right at the corner, at the intersection . . . I was like \u2018what the hell?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the first time Donovan has seen this type of animal on the Island. He said he previously had seen a canine that looked like a coyote near a gas station on South Avenue.<\/p>\n
In 2022, wildlife experts with the city Department of Parks and Recreation confirmed that at least one coyote was living in the borough<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cOver the last several decades, coyotes have been expanding their natural range in response to ample food and open habitat,\u201d Anessa Hodgson, a Parks Department spokesperson, previously said. At the time, she noted that coyotes also resided in the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan.<\/p>\n That coyote was confirmed to be living in the western portion of the Island, but the Parks Department shared that coyotes can travel from three to 10 miles in a single day. The wildlife experts previously said Staten Islanders should not be alarmed if they spot it in the wild as most are not dangerous to humans.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Hawks and foxes and coyotes, oh my! Mike Donovan, a Graniteville resident, recently captured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-40764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}