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The Rise of the Red Fox #8532046
12/26/25 07:08 PM
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ChadDaniel Offline OP
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Here are pictures of just a couple of the red fox we have caught this year. Over the course of probably the last 5 years we have seen a big increase in red fox in our area. Just wondering if anyone else has seen the same?


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Re: The Rise of the Red Fox [Re: ChadDaniel] #8532097
12/26/25 08:15 PM
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In this area it seems the less coyote you have the more red fox you have. The last few years I have caught quite a few coyote in my area and this year it seems like there is a lot more fox sign then in the past and not so many coyote.

Re: The Rise of the Red Fox [Re: ChadDaniel] #8532497
12/27/25 04:57 PM
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In probably the same time frame I have as well in Southern Missouri and few in a nearby town but seen a few close to home my in-laws live about 20 minutes from ava mo surrounded by national forest and we see several near them


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Re: The Rise of the Red Fox [Re: ChadDaniel] #8532586
12/27/25 06:38 PM
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I find this fascinating. Is it the coyote population either going down or not present where they live? Is it a habitat issue? Or maybe it’s just a prey issue?


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Re: The Rise of the Red Fox [Re: ChadDaniel] #8532644
12/27/25 08:09 PM
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There seems to be a slight increase in the reds here...coyote population is about the same.

I get a few pics of them on deer cameras occasionally several miles from any residential area.

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Re: The Rise of the Red Fox [Re: ChadDaniel] #8532857
12/28/25 09:33 AM
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Coyotes IMO definitely affect the fox population. When I was growing up in NYS fox where everywhere. Both red and grey. Once coyotes got established there was a big, notable decrease in the fox population.

Even where I am now. many of us have knocked the coyote population back within a few miles of town and even the farmers tell us they see more fox.

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12/28/25 10:06 AM
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This is super interesting, out here in Wyoming they really seem to coexist just fine, obviously I see more fox right around the border of agriculture and desert land but many times I've jumped a fox or two and a coyote off the same dead pile

Re: The Rise of the Red Fox [Re: ChadDaniel] #8532892
12/28/25 10:49 AM
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A lot of fox live right in town now days.

Re: The Rise of the Red Fox [Re: ChadDaniel] #8532910
12/28/25 11:23 AM
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Used to be lots of reds here and no grays. Now we have grays, coyotes and no reds at all.


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Re: The Rise of the Red Fox [Re: ChadDaniel] #8532943
12/28/25 12:56 PM
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Hey Chad we are definitely in a coyote decline and a red fox rise. At lest that’s what we are seeing.

Re: The Rise of the Red Fox [Re: ChadDaniel] #8533107
12/28/25 04:52 PM
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Not here we hardly catch any, been on the down swing now for atleast 5-7 years now.
I miss catching them.

We have lived here now 26 years, early 2000's it would 40 to 70 a year.
I think between parvo and mountain lions they stay slim to none.


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