Table 1. Frequency of occurrence per scat (Scat) and frequency of occurrence per item (Occur) of food items encountered in coyote feces collected in urban Calgary, AB, between June 2012 and June 2013.
N indicate sample size (number of feces analyzed).
| Summer (n = 86) | Autumn (n = 69) | Winter (n = 33) | Spring (n = 63) | Overall (n = 251) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scat | Occur | Scat | Occur | Scat | Occur | Scat | Occur | Scat | Occur | |
| Vertebrates | ||||||||||
| Small mammals | 65.1 | 16.3 | 50.7 | 17.2 | 39.4 | 17.1 | 62.5 | 23.0 | 57.1 | 18.0 |
| Hare (Lepus spp.) | 11.6 | 2.9 | 17.4 | 5.9 | 27.3 | 11.8 | 32.8 | 12.1 | 20.6 | 6.5 |
| Deer (Odocoileus spp.) | 17.4 | 4.4 | 20.3 | 6.9 | 36.4 | 15.8 | 4.7 | 1.7 | 17.5 | 5.5 |
| Birds | 27.9 | 7.0 | 11.6 | 3.9 | 9.1 | 3.9 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 14.3 | 4.5 |
| Sciuridae | 30.2 | 7.6 | 8.7 | 2.9 | 6.1 | 2.6 | 6.2 | 2.3 | 15.1 | 4.8 |
| Muskrat | 11.6 | 2.9 | - | - | - | - | 6.2 | 2.3 | 5.6 | 1.8 |
| Porcupine | 4.6 | 1.2 | 4.3 | 1.5 | 12.1 | 5.3 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 4.8 | 1.5 |
| Cat | 3.5 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 1.0 | - | - | - | - | 2.0 | 0.6 |
| Red fox | 4.7 | 1.2 | - | - | - | - | 1.6 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 0.6 |
| Dog | 1.2 | 0.3 | - | - | 3.0 | 1.3 | - | - | 0.8 | 0.3 |
| Invertebrates | 5.8 | 1.5 | 14.5 | 4.7 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 7.1 | 2.3 |
| Vegetation | 97.7 | 24.4 | 82.6 | 27.9 | 27.3 | 11.8 | 84.4 | 31.0 | 81.0 | 25.6 |
| Fruit | 57.0 | 14.2 | 37.7 | 21.1 | 42.4 | 18.4 | 42.2 | 15.5 | 52.8 | 16.7 |
| Anthropogenic | 18.6 | 4.7 | 7.2 | 2.5 | 15.1 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 10.7 | 3.4 |