How to Call Coyotes: The Howls & Calling Strategies You Need to Know

How to Call Coyotes: The Howls & Calling Strategies You Need to Know

Author: Outdoor Life
Published: January 2, 2023

Want to call in coyotes close? This article from Outdoor Life will guide you.

“Thanks to the prevalence of electronic calling devices, anyone can become a decent coyote caller with the press of a few buttons. But if you really want to step up your game, you need to first understand what makes coyotes tick. Coyote behavior changes throughout the winter and through their breeding period. Understanding exactly what the different sounds mean to the coyotes you’re calling will make you more effective.

So don’t just start pressing random buttons on your e-caller. Follow these expert tips and strategies on how to call coyotes.

Coyotes are nature’s great omnivores. Studies of stomach contents have found that coyotes will swallow almost anything that they can get in their mouths, including rocks, plastic packaging, harness buckles, and even the occasional rabbit. Knowing this, it doesn’t matter much which sort of prey distress call you use–most modern electronic callers offer everything from a whitetail fawn to a house cat–as long as you set up within a coyote’s earshot.

The manner in which a coyote approaches a distress call depends on its security level, which is influenced by its latest experiences. An unpressured coyote will often come in quickly and boldly to almost any distress sound. A pressured coyote, however, will take much longer to approach a call. He’ll wait downwind of the coyote howl before slowly slinking in, wary nose to the air.

In 2005, a predator-research biologist gifted me with a major opportunity when he invited me to call coyotes for him at the Idaho National Laboratory research area, where he was studying a large number of GPS-collared coyotes. Every six weeks the coyotes were trapped, whereupon their collars were fitted with fresh batteries, and the tracking information in them was downloaded and reproduced in a computer animation. These dogs were extremely pressured.”

The full article can be found here.

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