Minnesota’s coyote records include open refuge country at Sherburne and wooded river corridors threading the Twin Cities, two landscapes that let coyotes move between cover and hunting ground.
Minnesota coyotes hunt mostly rodents, rabbits, and voles, switching to carrion and fruit as the seasons change, and they’ll hunt alone, with a mate, or as a small family depending on what’s available. Around the Twin Cities they tend to shift toward dusk, night, and early morning to avoid people, while in open refuge country they range more freely by day.
Records rise sharply in December, January, and February, when tracks show clearly in snow and thin winter cover makes coyotes easier to spot along field edges and trails. That winter jump in records reflects visibility, not a larger population moving through the state.
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