Utah Coyote Bounty Reporter smartphone app

Once you have downloaded the Utah Coyote Bounty Reporter app on your iOS or Android device, open the app. It should look like this:

Immediately after you kill a coyote, open the app and tap New Report. The Instructions screen will appear.

You MUST have location data turned on, or your coyotes will not qualify for payment. The DWR requires a GPS coordinate of the coyote-removal location.

After reading the instructions, tap Next at the bottom of the screen.

The next step is to take a photo of the coyote you have killed. tap the orange Camera button.

You should see a camera screen with a circle at the bottom. Press the circle to take a photo of the coyote.

Important: The coyote should fill the full frame of the camera lens and include the entire animal in the exact location it was killed.

Your photo needs to be clear enough that the DWR can easily identify the animal as a coyote. See the examples below:

If the picture you took meets these requirements, then tap the check mark in the lower left corner of the screen. If you need to retake the picture, tap the trash can icon in the lower right corner to delete the original image. The camera prompt will reappear.

Once you have taken a satisfactory photo, tap the orange Next button at the bottom of the screen. Do not take multiple photos.

The Required Information screen will appear. Fill out all requested information, starting with your first and last name. You should type your name the same way each time you kill a coyote. For example, if you go by Rich, always enter your name as Rich, instead of sometimes entering it as Rick or Richard.

You will then need to enter your customer ID number. This is listed on your hunting or fishing license or on your course completion certificate, if you took the course after May 2018.

To find your customer ID on a hunting license, it is located right below your name and CUST ID (as circled in red below).

Your customer ID is also listed right after your name on the Predator Control Program course completion form, if you took the course after May 2018. (See the example below.)

Important: The customer ID is NOT the same as the registration number printed in the bottom right corner of the course completion form. Do NOT enter the registration number. (It's crossed out in the image below.)

Next, select the date of the kill by tapping the calendar icon on the right side of the Take Date text box. It will automatically display today's date.

Tap OK.

Select the coyote's gender by tapping the arrow for the drop-down field in the Male/Female Coyote text box. Do the same in the Take Method text box to record your method of take.

After you've entered all the required information, the Submit button on the bottom right side of the screen will turn orange. Tap Submit.

The next screen will confirm that you have successfully submitted the coyote. Tap Done and you will return to the home screen. At that point, you can enter data for additional coyotes, or you can exit the app.

If you do not have cell service at the location where you killed the coyote, the Submit button will not turn orange. If this occurs, simply tap the Save button at the bottom left side of the screen. This will save your entry until you reach an area with cell service. A popup window will note that your entry was saved as a draft. Tap OK and you will return to the home screen.

To submit saved drafts, tap the Unsubmitted Reports icon located at the bottom right corner of the home screen. You will see an orange circle with the number of drafts you currently have saved in the upper right corner of the icon.

Tap the draft you would like to submit, and then tap the green button with an arrow on it.

Once you submit the draft, you will see a confirmation screen that shows your submission was successful. Tap Done on the bottom of the screen to return to the home screen.

You no longer a need to keep a paper trail documenting the coyotes you've killed; however, you still need to ensure that any coyote ears and jaws you submit can be matched to your entries. To do this, either label your samples with the gender and date, or label them numerically in the order you submit them (i.e., your first is 1, second is 2, third is 3 and so on). After you visit a check-in location, start over at 1 again. If you have to save several drafts for different coyotes, make sure you submit them in the order that you killed them. Draft 1 needs to be submitted first, draft 2 second, draft 3 third and so on.