- Dates
- 2020-10-19 – 2020-10-30
- Kind
- Wildlife observation
- Where
- place/eastside-drive
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- wildlifeoral-historyobservation
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Between October 19 and 30, 2020, Beaver Island Forum participants discussed a resident’s report of an unusually large coyote-like animal seen on Eastside Drive and repeated howling. Other participants offered similar recollections and debated whether the animal could be a wolf or coyote–dog hybrid.
Evidence limits
This record preserves a contemporaneous, unresolved wildlife report. The forum thread contains no independently verified identification, photograph, specimen, DNA result, or wildlife-agency confirmation; it must not be cited as evidence that wolves or coywolves were present on Beaver Island.
Sources
- A resident reported seeing an unusually large, coyote-like animal on Eastside Drive and hearing howling; other participants shared similar personal observations and discussed older, unresolved reports. No photograph, specimen, DNA result, DNR confirmation, or independently verified wolf/coywolf identification is preserved. The thread documents local observation and uncertainty, not proof of a wolf or hybrid population.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015767
Added 10 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Resident reports possible large coyote-like animal on Eastside Drive, 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-possible-large-coyote-observation-2020/, accessed [date], citing Cynthia Simmons and forum participants, “Perceived wisdom on coywolves/wolves on Beaver Island?,” Beaver Island Forum, October 19–30, 2020..
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