Cat
I am a volunteer with Chicago Bird Collision Monitors and the live birds that I pick up go to rehab and the deceased birds go to the Field Museum for research.
I am a volunteer with Chicago Bird Collision Monitors and the live birds that I pick up go to rehab and the deceased birds go to the Field Museum for research.
Seen initially on roadside verge by another observer on 2/23 with a vulture near it, later had been moved further off-road, maybe by scavengers, then even further back by the time I documented it 2/27.
About 28" in length from snout to rump. With a long tail.
I thought bobcat, but it has a long tail. It's spotted, so I don't think it's a fox.
Maybe a juvenile mountain lion?
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yup.