Where do old sick coyote or bird to go die?
 

Was out walking along the beach on New year's day and got thinking. Where do they do? I lived in the city my whole life and really don't see them but they have to get sick and weak and die off but where. We have a ton of coyote right in our back yard. Birds too, we have a ton of them but never see any dead ones? You guys notice them in the rural areas?

Sometimes, yeah. They go back to the earth somewhat quickly. Like us. Plus....they lie down in quiet places.

Where I live, nothing dead on the ground lasts for more than ten minutes. Something comes along and eats it. Any dead squirrels, rabbits, gophers, scraps, etc. I have are just thrown out in the middle of the open area next to my house & gone in a flash.

.....Vultures....they take care of everything that the preditors don't.

I have 160 acres and am surrounded by farms the same size.

2 or 3 years ago, I shot a coyote that I knew I hit but it kept running. I didn’t think much of it until a few months later while speaking with a neighbor...

She went into one of their outbuildings and discovered a coyote ‘sleeping’ in there. It wasn’t sleeping, it was dead. It was most likely the one I shot and it went in there to die.

I've seen dead birds in my back yard, including hummingbirds.

I believe most animals go and "hide" when it's their time. They go find a spot that's out of the way where they can lay down and be left alone. That's probably why the most likely coyote find is going to be if they've been hit by a car or shot so they couldn't get to a good hiding spot. Once they've found their spot and passed, it probably doesn't take long for scavengers and carrion eaters to find them once they've died and begin to recycle.

A few years back I had a particularly good run at trapping moles, voles and other nuisance rodents. I had so many I didn’t know what to do with the carci* so I just laid them out in a row to think on my pleasant dilemma.

A couple hours later Mr. Fox came trotting out of the woods making a beeline right to my little makeshift mammal morgue, snatched them up and was off again right back into the woods.

That hapened a couple days in a row until the target varmints’ population sufficiently diminished.




*made up word for the plural of carcass.

They're out there.

I find everything dead. Deer, elk, bison, coyotes, bobcats, birds.

I was taking pictures for a while, then lost interest.. unless it's really cool.

My favorite find was four or five bison piled on top of each other. They all ran off a cliff and landed on each other. Lightning scared them I believe.

They don't last too long, so it's all timing. Other creatures are not picky and do need a meal.

The bison were interesting because over a period of about six weeks the earth swallowed them up. They had landed in a wash, and whenever there was rain and a flash flood they were more and more covered up. The sand and silt eventually buried them completely... then they were gone.

I've seen just about every type of critter dead. I've never seen a dead Bat.

Crows and other birds are efficient at eating dead things. Almost any roadkill around here will have a bird pecking at it. Other coyotes will happily eat them, even wild dogs.

And the flies find them fast. The maggots will eat them in short order.

Around here dead birds seem to explode into a pile of feathers in your yard.

Other stuff, well.......


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Random deer bones found in the woods on my property. Vultures and coyotes make short work of the dead.
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Time to Feast!


https://www.hcn.org/articles/food-eating-roadkill-is-an-alaska-tradition-what-about-the-lower-48-salvage?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email

dead chuprakabra

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Found 2 in my pool one morning...

Try watching Tiger baseball.

Coyotes? Their buddies probably eat them as soon as they are dead, if they wait that long.

I hunt deep in the wilderness and go back to the same area every year. After a year there is zero trace of the leftovers (bones, fur, hooves, paws etc.) It always amazes me how quickly it must be gobbled up, dragged around and covered with leaves.

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Interesting. Here in the big city, there's isn't too many paces for the coyotes to hide yet they are seen all the time near the hills. In the hills, right in my back yard, there are two clans according to some neighbors who are experts:rolleyes: One of the clan will not cross their boundaries which is on our side of the hill and the other clan owns the section over the hill, then there's there are other clans couple hill over. My questions is, is there enough places for them to hide so they can die before they get discovered by others and killed? Its seem that there are only so many places they can go in a busy, urban area like LA.

I plinked about 25 squirrels several years ago in the back yard. I dumped them every day on the one acre lot next door. When I’d drop a new one, the day old one was gone.

Lots of dead deer on the side of the road here. It’s not a vulture, but some ugly azz birds eat them within hours.

The circle of life...