2025 Rut Tracker

Finale update through December 31, 2025.

Below is the cumulative distance traveled by males. You can see by the end of December the average male is expected to have traveled about 150 miles. This year is well below average, but not abnormal.

Females – Their goal this time of year is to put on enough fat to survive the winter plus have the energy to support the fawns developing in their womb. Plus, the males are doing all the walking so any potential mates will seek them out so they don’t have to (they just pick who they want as mates). In northern Pennsylvania very few fawns (<5% will get pregnant) but in southern Pennsylvania it can be 40% or more. Across northern Pennsylvania >90% of adult females become pregnant every year. Even those 12 or more years old!

In 2025, female movements were far below average. Although not that far outside what has occurred in prior years, females in 2025 moved the least that we’ve observed over the past 13 years!