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Updated Connecticut Bear Sightings: Avon Still Atop The Charts
CT Wildlife officials have updated their bear sighting chart.
See a bear in Connecticut lately? Avon and Farmington continue to lead the pack in terms of reported black bear sightings in Connecticut, according to the latest statistics released by the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
They have held onto the top two spots for some time.
But what about the other towns in Connecticut? Some towns have a lot of reported sightings, some just a few. Some municipalities do not have any recorded sightings.
Find out what's happening in Avonfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
DEEP officials have released an updated bear sightings chart. The new statistics are from July 1, 2016 to June 28, 2017 and include municipalities with at least one reported sighting.
Check out the DEEP's chart on bear sightings by town:
Find out what's happening in Avonfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
- Andover 1
- Ansonia 2
- Ashford 8
- Avon 537
- Barkhamsted 136
- Beacon Falls 1
- Berlin 78
- Bethel 23
- Bethlehem 40
- Bloomfield 115
- Bolton 2
- Bozrah 1
- Branford 43
- Bridgewater 15
- Bristol 86
- Brookfield 66
- Brooklyn 1
- Burlington 259
- Canaan 46
- Canterbury 3
- Canton 187
- Chaplin 1
- Cheshire 10
- Clinton 2
- Colchester 8
- Colebrook 20
- Columbia 1
- Cornwall 47
- Coventry 1
- Danbury 55
- Derby 8
- Durham 1
- East Granby 78
- East Haddam 2
- East Hampton 2
- East Hartford 1
- East Haven 8
- Eastford 3
- Easton 18
- Ellington 23
- Enfield 6
- Fairfield 2
- Farmington 376
- Glastonbury 19
- Goshen 58
- Granby 153
- Greenwich 2
- Griswold 1
- Groton 1
- Guilford 38
- Hamden 6
- Hartford 3
- Hartland 30
- Harwinton 63
- Hebron 17
- Kent 77
- Killingworth 1
- Lebanon 1
- Lisbon 1
- Litchfield 84
- Madison 1
- Manchester 3
- Marlborough 17
- Meriden 16
- Middlebury 79
- Middletown 6
- Milford 16
- Monroe 37
- Montville 1
- Morris 23
- Naugatuck 14
- New Britain 18
- New Canaan 3
- New Fairfield 55
- New Hartford 84
- New Haven 5
- New Milford 230
- Newtown 90
- Norfolk 87
- North Branford 1
- North Canaan 21
- North Haven 1
- Norwich 1
- Old Saybrook 1
- Orange 4
- Oxford 111
- Plainville 49
- Plymouth 36
- Preston 2
- Prospect 1
- Redding 67
- Ridgefield 6
- Roxbury 38
- Salem 1
- Salisbury 59
- Seymour 28
- Sharon 33
- Shelton 3
- Sherman 54
- Simsbury 284
- Somers 20
- Southbury 201
- Southington 59
- Stafford 35
- Stamford 5
- Stratford 1
- Suffield 57
- Thomaston 33
- Thompson 4
- Tolland 75
- Torrington 150
- Trumbull 6
- Union 6
- Vernon 16
- Wallingford 8
- Warren 35
- Washington 67
- Waterbury 24
- Watertown 30
- West Hartford 236
- Westbrook 1
- Weston 10
- Willington 16
- Wilton 15
- Winchester 104
- Windsor 112
- Windsor Locks 6
- Wolcott 31
- Woodbridge 5
- Woodbury 123
- Woodstock 7
Total: 5,962
To Report a bear sighting, click here.
Patch Graphic: Kristin Borden
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