Animal
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
The most-widely-distributed wild canid in the world — present in every borough of NYC including Staten Island, where they den in the Greenbelt and surrounding parks. Solitary, nocturnal, omnivorous: small mammals, birds, eggs, fruit, scavenged food. The borough's most-common mid-sized native predator.
Scientific
Vulpes vulpes is a small canid (8–15 lbs) found across the Northern Hemisphere. Solitary outside the breeding season; territories of ~2–3 km². Omnivorous opportunists. Litters of 4–6 kits born in spring; both parents raise young.
On Staten Island
Established borough-wide. Common at the Greenbelt, [[mount-loretto-unique-area|Mount Loretto]], [[conference-house-park|Conference House Park]], and along park edges. Sightings on residential streets at dawn/dusk are routine in some neighborhoods. Coyote re-colonization since 2010 has likely reduced red fox numbers in some areas — coyotes will kill foxes that overlap their core territories.
See also
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- Counterpart to: [[eastern-coyote]]
- Member of: [[animal]]
- Contained by: [[staten-island]]
Sources
- NYC Parks Wildlife Unit observation records
- Northeastern red fox urban-ecology literature
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