What kind of wildlife now lives in your neighborhood that didn’t used to be there?

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1. No changes in wildlife in my neighborhood

2. Coyotes were eradicated from San Francisco decades and decades ago but have made a substantial comeback in the past 10-15 years and now you can spot them in city parks, even near downtown.

   https://www.kqed.org/news/11799871/bay-curious-coyotes

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBHfsZ3ofgk

3. More bear but the biggest difference is fishers are being seen more. Usually they are very elusive, but lots of spottings lately.

4. Not much has changed, we’ve always had mountain lions and bears. We recently started getting more birds though, I’ve seen red tailed hawks, peregrine falcons and blue herons in the past year.

5. [A snowy owl has recently been spotted](https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/arctic-snowy-owl-calls-an-orange-county-neighborhood-home-for-now/) all over Orange County, thousands of miles from its native habitat.

6. Homo Sapiens

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8. It’s been years since the last ninja turtle sighting.

9. So, we’ve always had the occasional Canada Goose, but it was seasonal and they were kinda uncommon.

   Now they’re like pigeons in New York. They, and their droppings, are absolutely ubiquitous. And they never leave.

10. Not sure if they are new, but there is a pack of geese that I hate. I’m hoping the alligators get them so the stop harassing me.

11. Peacocks, iguanas, curly tail lizards, and some wild parakeets. I’ve heard the parakeets came from somewhere around south Florida. Miami zoo perhaps? But got it because of damage from hurricane Andrew.

12. Texans. They are everywhere

13. Usually the hawks going after the chickens or the foxes and coyotes eyeing up the rooster 🐓

    But the new dogs that bark constantly is a surprise that wasn’t there before

14. I’ve started to hear coyotes every once in a while from the wooded area behind my neighborhood. It was kind of freaky hearing them all yipping for the first time in the middle of the night.

15. I don’t remember seeing coyotes when I was growing up. Now they’re pretty common, and becoming problematic for domestic animals and some local wildlife.

    It’s the constant dynamiting. If they’d just leave the roadrunners alone it’d be so much better for everyone.

16. I started seeing so many foxes at the beginning of COVID and now it’s more and big ones

17. My two male cats.

    There’s a few square miles of the US that Stan and Ollie pretty much own.

18. Armadillos

19. Turkeys. They’ve been moving north, so as a hunter “hell yes!”, as someone who doesn’t want to see them competing with other animals/taking over their grounds “shit!”.

20. I see a lot more bald eagles and turkeys. It’s not that they weren’t in the Twin Cities when I was growing up, but I feel like I mostly saw eagles near rivers, and turkeys in less built up suburbs. Now I see both on the regular all around town.

21. Aussies

22. My neighborhood is populated with Italian wall lizards. A pet shop delivery was released decades ago and they adapted and flourished. Cute little buggers, my cat enjoys them.

23. Yankees and Californians

24. I have seen more rabbits, bald eagles, and hummingbirds in recent years.

25. We recently got a bear in our neighborhood that was fun

26. I can’t think of any.

27. Bears are coming back in a big way. Their population is exploding and it’s been causing some issues-trash, bird feeders, occasionally break into people’s houses. There’s one in my neighborhood, my neighbor across the street caught it on her camera, but I haven’t seen it myself yet.

28. The trees are moving north. Every state has more trees that belong more south than ever. The natural ranges of trees are expanding north

29. Coyotes are coming up to northern New England. We have seen scat and heard them.

    I also have seen barn owls in the last two years. They aren’t supposed to be this far northeast but our local ornithologist says they have started ranging this far north and people are reporting them in our area occasionally despite the fact that this isn’t their normal range.

30. Coyotes have become pretty common in southern CA, even in pretty urban areas. I’ve seen several Coyotes roaming my neighborhood at night. The Neighbors cat went missing, and he’s convinced a Coyotes got it. He’s probably right

31. It’s not outside of its historical range, but I recently saw a lynx walking up our driveway for the first time in the 30 years we’ve lived in our neighborhood.

32. Not my neighborhood, but recently the population of Mexican gray wolves (lobos) in New Mexico have been increasing. They’re endangered and only 45 wild wolves in Mexico, 136 in New Mexico, and 105 in Arizona. They’ve been noticed going north of I-40 now, and there’s debates about whether to allow that or keep them limited to down south. Apparently there’s a requirement that the Fish and Wildlife Service has to capture wolves that roam north of I-40, but there’s people trying to overturn that in court.

    Again, not in my neighborhood, but there’s also been more moose sightings recently going farther south. Moose have been pretty rare in the past and are usually just moose that accidentally wander from Colorado, but I remember seeing quite a few articles about moose sightings this winter.