{"id":14731,"date":"2014-04-10T05:29:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T11:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=14731"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:48:23","slug":"did-you-know-that-u-s-wildlife-services-kills-227-coyotes-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/04\/10\/did-you-know-that-u-s-wildlife-services-kills-227-coyotes-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that U.S. Wildlife Services kills 227 Coyotes a day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CoyoteCoyote sticking out its tongue<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday I clicked a link on Facebook to see the trailer of a movie called WILD THINGS: A film about the war on native carnivores<\/a> <\/em><\/span>and I know for certain that I want to see the movie in its entirety\u00a0because I am totally against the war on our native predators.<\/p>\n

After viewing the trailer I noticed a link to another article written by NRDC’s Melissa Waage titled “The Federal Government is Killing 227 Coyotes a Day<\/a><\/span>” and read it which led me to another article written by NRDC’s Andrew Wetzler titled “Setting the Record Straight: Why Wildlife Services Needs to Be Investigated<\/a><\/span>“.<\/p>\n

227 dead Coyotes a day\u00a0are exterminated by U.S. Wildlife Services. In 2011 over 83,000 Coyotes met their deaths at the hands of Wildlife Services and I don’t\u00a0know if that total includes the numbers of Coyotes killed by bounty programs in the states that have them including the state I live in where 6,000 Coyotes were killed<\/a><\/span> in the first year that Utah offered a $50.00 bounty.<\/p>\n

There are ways that people, \u00a0Coyotes and other wildlife can peacefully coexist and a good source for information on that is Project Coyote<\/a><\/span>\u00a0where they promote coexistence between people and wildlife through education, science and advocacy.<\/p>\n

I am thoroughly disgusted by the numbers of Coyotes and other apex predators that are killed annually by Wildlife Services and by the number of “unintended” kills.\u00a0\u00a0The number of “Animals Taken by Wildlife Services – FY 2011<\/a><\/span>” totals 3,752,356<\/strong> for just 2011 and it includes endangered species and federally protected migratory birds. Their “Bye bye Blackbird<\/a><\/span>” program kills hundreds of thousands of “target” birds annually and also “unintentionally” kills bird that are not target species.<\/p>\n

The name “Wildlife Services” even makes me ill because one would think that “Wildlife Services” would have something to do with protecting wildlife and this agency DOES not do that. I think it should be called “Wildlife Exterminators” because to put it simply THAT is what they do and they aren’t even transparent about it.<\/p>\n

Do I think that Wildlife Services needs to be investigated<\/a><\/span>?<\/p>\n

Yes, and the sooner the better.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to view more of my Coyote photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do I think that Wildlife Services needs to be investigated? Yes, and the sooner the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,2152,100,26],"tags":[2507,2509,4002,2506,2508,4035,102,4032,2505],"class_list":["post-14731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-conservation","category-coyotes","category-utah","tag-apex-predators","tag-carnivores","tag-coyote","tag-extermination","tag-native-predators","tag-nature-photography","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-photography","tag-wildlife-services"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-tongue-mia-mcpherson-8513.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-3PB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":139730,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/02\/11\/wet-coyote-pup-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge\/","url_meta":{"origin":14731,"position":0},"title":"Wet Coyote Pup At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"February 11, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, I'm sharing a cute, but very wet Coyote pup I photographed last July at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.","rel":"","context":"In "Coyotes"","block_context":{"text":"Coyotes","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/wildlife\/coyotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Wet Coyote pup in a field at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coyote-pup-in-colorful-field-mia-mcpherson-5298.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coyote-pup-in-colorful-field-mia-mcpherson-5298.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coyote-pup-in-colorful-field-mia-mcpherson-5298.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/coyote-pup-in-colorful-field-mia-mcpherson-5298.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16196,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/10\/19\/natures-gifts\/","url_meta":{"origin":14731,"position":1},"title":"Nature’s Gifts","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"October 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"75,326 coyotes in 2013 were \"denied\" their portion of Nature's gifts when they were senselessly exterminated by USDA\u2019s Wildlife Services","rel":"","context":"In "Antelope Island State Park"","block_context":{"text":"Antelope Island State Park","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/locations\/utah\/antelope-island-state-park\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Coyote on a sunny winter day, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-snow-grey-owl-mia-mcpherson-7852.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-snow-grey-owl-mia-mcpherson-7852.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-snow-grey-owl-mia-mcpherson-7852.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/coyote-snow-grey-owl-mia-mcpherson-7852.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15739,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/08\/31\/the-land-is-one-organism\/","url_meta":{"origin":14731,"position":2},"title":"The Land Is One Organism","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"August 31, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; 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