If you feel like you’ve seen more coyotes and foxes in the city lately, you’re not alone. The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks says there’s been a big increase in reported sightings this year, so much so that it put a study in place to learn how to keep them safe as they continue to migrate to urban areas. It’s a story KAKE’s Eli Higgins learned about from personal experience. “Several months ago, a strange sound kept waking me up in the middle of the night, but all you could ever see were some weird eyeballs way back in the field across from my house,” Eli said. One morning, he finally found the culprit, and it wasn’t something you’d expect to see in the middle of the city – a family of three red foxes. Jon Beckman with the KDWP says he’s not the only one. “We wanted to get a handle on what was going on with those populations,” said Beckman. This year, Beckman says there have been so many reports of red foxes and coyotes in the city that the department started what’s called the Wichita Urban Coyote and Fox Project, and he needs our help.
Source: KAKE – News
