Below is a schedule for the first week of Coyotes camp. Coyotes do attack and take people’s pets and young livestock, “but the occurrence is very sporadic and actually rare for the numbers (of coyotes) on Florida’s landscape,” Boughton said. Neal Stein showed us where his beloved cat Daisy was killed near his driveway. COYOTES IN CENTRAL FLORIDA | Check the interactive map to see hundreds of coyote sightings reported across all 10 Central Florida counties. Habitat use of sympatric bobcats and coyotes on Avon Park Air Force Range in south-central Florida, May 2001–May 2002. Please note that the schedule is subject to change. Coyotes are in all 67 Florida counties One resident who lost a cat wants locals to be very cautious. Included are both landscape (1st order) and within-home range (2nd order) mean log-transformed habitat selection ratios for coyotes and bobcats in both wet and dry seasons. Evidence indicates that coyotes reached New York and the Northeast in the early 1930s and 1940s, with coyote range expansion first reaching the state by passing north of the Great Lakes and into northern New York. Coyotes began appearing in Florida in small numbers sometime in the late 1960s, according to Dr. Martin Main, a professor of wildlife ecology and conservation at the University of Florida. Monday, July 13. In 2003 the commission estimated the entire coyote population across the state at 25,000-30,000, at a time when hunters and trappers were thought to be killing about 11,000. 11:00 am to 12:30 pm - On-Ice Practice Many associate the Everglades with South Florida, but Central Florida is actually the headwaters of the Florida Everglades. This explanation suggests that coyotes originally inhabited central North America and naturally extended their range throughout the continent in response to human changes to the land.