Coyote Sightings in Montreal Since 2017

Citizen-reported coyote sightings documented by the City of Montreal since 2017. The data supports the city's coyote management plan for public education and safety. Records are updated as of March 2026.

Use Cases

• Map sighting locations using the provided GEOJSON or SHP spatial files to identify urban coyote hotspots.
• Analyze temporal patterns in citizen reports to correlate with seasons or management plan interventions.
• Support public education initiatives by visualizing reported sightings and their geographic distribution.

Strengths

• Data collection initiated in 2017, providing multiple years of observational records.
• Sourced from citizen reports to the City of Montreal, offering ground-level urban wildlife data.
• Available in multiple formats including CSV for tabular analysis and GEOJSON/SHP for spatial mapping.

Limitations

• The dataset relies on voluntary citizen reports, which may introduce spatial and temporal reporting biases.
• Sample data and specific column definitions are unavailable, complicating initial data understanding.
• The raw description was machine-translated, which may obscure precise details of data collection methodology.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec

Collection Method

Citizen observations reported to and documented by the City of Montreal.

Time Range

Since 2017

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

City of Montreal, Québec, Canada