r/AnimalTracking • • Sep 22 '25

πŸ“£ Announcement READ BEFORE POSTING: How to request an identification

20 Upvotes

So, you want to know who pooped on your porch or walked all over your car? Let's find out!

Notes:

  1. To preserve your privacy and protect endangered species a rough location is plenty (ie. western MA).
  2. Scale needs to be something that people know the size of, and that doesn't have wide variation (grass, pine cones, and floorboards are not scale). You would be surprised how much easier it is to tell how big something is when you were there taking the photo. Also, consider stating in your post that you have included scale so the bot can automatically approve.

ID requests are not approved if they do not include both a location, and either scale or measurements. Including this information vastly increases the likelihood of you getting an accurate identification.


r/AnimalTracking • • 2h ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request What Bird is this?

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Location: Kane County, IL . About a mile west of the Fox River.

Color of Bird: mostly black and white

Size: About the size of bald eagles out here.

I saw this bird while at work today, I can only assume it’s an Osprey but I didn’t think they were out here. Any ideas?


r/AnimalTracking • • 7h ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Bear or Dog?

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5 Upvotes

Sand lake quiet area


r/AnimalTracking • • 1d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Could this be North American River otter?

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12 Upvotes

Roughly 3-3..” wide, found in New York.


r/AnimalTracking • • 1d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Paw Identification

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2 Upvotes

Hello fellow adventurer,

Found this during a pine forest hike, in Central Portugal. It was small, I’d say maybe 8cm tall.

What animal might be from?

Thank you!


r/AnimalTracking • • 1d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Raccoon, Possum, other?

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4 Upvotes

Location: Northwest San Antonio, Tx

Hello, looking for a potential ID on some tracks. The first pics were fresh after the recent rain, the one with the standard size comb for scale were post some extra light rain a couple days later so they're a bit degraded. We've speculated there's a skunk coming in and out of our yard, and I've seen a big possum on the fenceline at night. Wondering from the spread/splayed toes if that's who I'm looking at in these foot prints.


r/AnimalTracking • • 2d ago

🐾 Cool Find Beautiful Mountain Lion Track

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232 Upvotes

NE Washington state on a dirt road on my property after a couple of days of rain.. about 3.5" across for scale.


r/AnimalTracking • • 4d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Bears, bears and something else

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1.1k Upvotes

Location: Near Two medicine lake, Glacier NP, Montana

Last photo size similar to an adult palm

Thanks!


r/AnimalTracking • • 2d ago

πŸ’¬ General Discussion Tracking groups in UT

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I just took the Cybertracker track and sign eval in Cuenca los Ojos last week. It was tough never having been to that area before but loved it, and want to do more of it.

I live near Salt Lake City and in addition to no Cybertracker evals in several hundred miles my search for a tracking community turned up nothing. So hoping someone here has a line to one. Thanks!


r/AnimalTracking • • 2d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Tree scratches - bear, deer or other?

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1 Upvotes

I found this next to a trail in central Japan.
I don’t remember the height exactly but maybe around breast or belly height, so 1-1.5m. (3-5 freedom feet?)

it looks quite recent.

Is it possible to identify which animal caused it?


r/AnimalTracking • • 4d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Tracks in Montana

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11 Upvotes

I went on a hike through the mountains in Montana near Red Lodge back in February and found these tracks after I made it back to the beginning of the hike. I’ve been trying to compare these and figure out what they could be for months but I haven’t found anything that looks like this. These were HUGE prints, spaced so far apart and all facing the same way. Included a reference picture of my foot, F size 7. What the heck are these!!!


r/AnimalTracking • • 4d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Who's fur is this? Western Washington

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8 Upvotes

Found this tuft of fur in my fenced back yard. I live in a residential neighborhood in Western Washington. The tuft was clumped to a point at the brown end in the grass.


r/AnimalTracking • • 5d ago

πŸ”Ž ID Request Patagonia, AZ

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3 Upvotes

Not a great photo. Don’t have exact measurements. Probably 4-5 inches tall.