# BLACK Fox Spotted

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/black-fox-spotted/82730>\
**Category:** Nature Talk\
**Created:** [July 23, 2026, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/black-fox-spotted/82730 "2026-07-23T07:52:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wuondo2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3be4f8/32.png) [@Wuondo2](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Wuondo2)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/black-fox-spotted/82730/1 "2026-07-23T07:52:22Z")

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Staying at a country farm, and woke to see a BLACK fox in the field out side our accommodation. I didn’t know the existed.

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**Author:** ![phma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/phma/32/54376_2.png) [@phma](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/phma)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/black-fox-spotted/82730/2 "2026-07-23T08:13:04Z")

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Welcome to the forum! Have you posted the observation on iNat?

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**Author:** ![roadside\_rambler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/roadside_rambler/32/60180_2.png) [@roadside\_rambler](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/roadside_rambler)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/black-fox-spotted/82730/3 "2026-07-23T11:11:44Z")

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That’s very cool, and must have been beautiful to see. Sounds like it may have been melanistic.

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**Author:** ![m\_whitson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/m_whitson/32/25565_2.png) [@m\_whitson](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/m_whitson)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/black-fox-spotted/82730/4 "2026-07-23T13:25:45Z")

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What fun to see!

There’s an iNaturalist project for sightings like that: [https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/albino-leucistic-melanistic-animals](https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/albino-leucistic-melanistic-animals)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2026, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/black-fox-spotted/82730/5 "2026-09-21T13:26:45Z")

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