Otter sightings and latrine sites on LI
Blue = roadkill/sights
Green = latrine sites
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Otter "latrine" sites: places where otters leave droppings. Surveying habitat for latrine sites is one method for tracking where otters are found. Latrine sites are often in places where otters exit water either to travel overland to another pond or stream, or to get around obstacles such as dams. On Long Island, biologist Mike Bottini found latrine sites to the east and to the west, but no well-established sites were found on the south shore or on the Peconic River.
SOURCE: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; "The Status and Distribution of the River Otter (Lontra canadensis) on Long Island, New York," unpublished 2009 paper by Long Island wildlife biologist Mike Bottini.
