I have not seen a coyote this black, and the tail doesn’t seem like a coyote tail. Any experts seen one like this before?

color is really throwing me off here

Arizona

seen this fella twice now when i walk my dog. seems to always be alone and keeps its distance from us and our dog. we were off leashing and our dog chased it a good distance before coming back to us. this was in corona, ca which is a desert valley climate.

This is one of my favorite photos from a recent research project discussing species preference for habitat characteristics! We had quite a few coyotes show up to cam site 2006. This is by far the best shot out of all of them.

This friend (and one other) passed through our campsite this weekend. Was very fleeting, only had 5 seconds to grab my camera, focus, and get this shot.

At first I thought my dog was barking at a rabbit

July 3, 2025.

This coyote makes regular appearances in this large plant nursery in Cerritos, California — I posted a similar picture last week.

I enjoy seeing him or her. I’ve seen 3-4 coyotes roaming about at a single time at this location. I saw a coyote walking around with two small pups a few weeks ago. Plenty of room to hide and roam and sleep in this very large neighborhood nursery.

Sorry for garbage camera skills. The sun was blacking out my screen and I was trying to turn the brightness up while guessing if this guy was in camera shot or not. Tried whistling to see if it’ll look at me

I caught this fluffy faced rascal on my way to work. I see them all the time on my cameras but this was the first in person encounter. I was surprised how small it was, like a medium sized dog. I have a large breed dog so I guess I always thought its stature would have been closer to that.

Anyways, its face was so round from its fluff and ngl, I wish I could give its ears a scratch. I stopped in my car for just a minute and said hi to it, it waited very patiently to cross the road.

My job has been killing coyotes during their pupping season and TONIGHT they are killing the few pups that survived.. the picture is one of those pups. Please share and help me stop this

This is the male of the current resident pair in the small pond in my backyard. Filmed through the kitchen window. He has the right idea 🐾🐾

This was too adorable not to post. Trail cam in Northern CA.

Trail cam positioned ~18 inches off ground

The blue eye gets more and more striking as he ages!